Sky Anytime+ No Longer Needs Sky Broadband
Sky Anytime+ coming to a router near you!
Sky’s on-demand service Sky Anytime+ has been around for a while, but Sky have been holding it to themselves, only allowing Sky Broadband customers access. Today however, that’s all changed, and from now on Sky Anytime+ will be available to any Sky+HD home with a ANY broadband connection.
Sky Anytime+ gives access to around 1,000 hours of content from various Sky Channels, and partner channels on the Sky network. Earlier this year, Sky also announced new content agreements with the BBC and ITV with ITV archive content such as Secret Diary of A Call Girl and Cold Feet box sets available to customers immediately. BBC’s iPlayer service is due to arrive later this year. Popular programmes such as Doctor Who, Outnumbered and Top Gear are already available through Sky’s existing deal with UK TV.
Luke Bradley-Jones, Director of TV Products, Sky commented:
“It’s great to be able to bring our on demand service Sky Anytime+ to even more customers, helping them to get more out of their Sky subscription. We already know how popular Sky Anytime+ is and how the flexibility of the service gives customers more choice and control over how they watch an amazing range of content. We’ve seen strong demand for it to date which we hope to increase now that the service is available with any broadband provider.”
This announcement comes as Sky introduces a new, enhanced Sky+HD 1TB box with even more storage capacity for on demand content. Alongside the existing 1TB of personal storage, there is now a full additional terabyte of space dedicated to Sky Anytime showing the best of the week’s Sky TV and Movies.
Customers can access Anytime+ by simply connecting their Sky+ HD set-top box to their broadband router, either with an Ethernet wire or wireless connector, and activating the service on the website.
For more information and to activate the service visit: sky.com/shop/tv/anytime-plus/get-it-now
Dave has over 20 years experience in the digital industry, and is founder and editor of Geektown. Obviously a huge geek himself, he can often be found in front of the latest tv show or movie, on various video games, or with his head in a comic book.
Sky can offer what ever they like. I would never give up my TiVo box and now virgin have all the sky anytime stuff why would you?
Any ideas if Sky are doing anything to respond to the Virgin Tivo box?
You mean in terms of storage space? there was also this bit on the press release – “This announcement comes as Sky introduces a new, enhanced Sky+HD 1TB box with even more storage capacity for on demand content. Alongside the existing 1TB of personal storage, there is now a full additional terabyte of space dedicated to Sky Anytime showing the best of the week’s Sky TV and Movies.” 🙂 (added it to the main post too now).
I was partly thinking storage. But also the TiVo box can record there programs at once (rather than just two) and series link between series too…and a few other nifty features. Just wondered if Sky were planning to catch up with virgin on some of those features…
Thanks for the tip though…