Freesat SKY

Sky are now offering Freesat Sky as an affordable yet easy way of receiving digital television to your TV screen with a modest one of payment. With Freesat Sky you will still get a huge choice of quality channels. Freesat Sky is basically the free to air programmes similar to Freesat. However unlike Freesat, Sky doesn't offer any high definition channels. For an additional cost you can subscribe to one of the Sky Packages.

Sky Plus

Sky Plus is the term for a sky box that can record, pause and rewind live TV. Sky plus digital tv packages are becoming more and more affordable. The additional choice of channels including high definition channels comes at a price however this is usually counter balanced by a Sky introduction offer such as free installation and vouchers. For more information on Sky products why not visit the main website: www.sky.co.uk.

Pace Sky Box

The Pace Sky Box is a Sky Digital Tv receiver. It is sold with a remote control and offers fast access to interactive services, beautiful design and outstanding reliability. The DS445NB Pace Sky Box is the latest and most up to date sky digital TV receiver. Notwithstanding Pace's history for delivering cutting edge technology the pace sky box offers MPEG-2 standard definition, interactive applications, outstanding memory (over 4000 programmes), DVB subtitles, terrestrial antenna input, RF output, 2nd RF output, TV A/V Scart, VCR A/V scart, analogue audio outpouts, RS232, RF input, Modem, power supply and a high speed data port.

If you are looking to upgrade your existing sky box then this is the best and most up to date one to get. The cheapest Pace DS440n Sky Digibox is available from Amazon from £30 to £170.00.

Sky OffersIt is well worth keeping an eye out for up to date offers from Sky. They are currently offering £50 M&S vouchers and £15 credit with any Sky TV Package when you join online: www.sky.co.uk

Buy Humax Foxsat HDR

The Humax Foxsat HDR is available from as low as £237.00 from Amazon and www.comet.co.uk. For a list of current stockists click here. Or alternatively read humax foxsat hdr review.

Freesat PVR, DTR, HDR:

Many DTR and DVD recorder models are labelled as either Freeview or Freesat+. There is a difference between the Freeview digital television service and Freesat Digital satellite television service. Freeview uses a digital television receiver through an aerial and Freesat is a digital satellite television received through a satellite dish. Freeview has quite a range of choice when it comes to recording, pausing and allowing you to record episodes of your favourite show at the touch of a button. However because Freesat is a relatively new service it only has a few options when it comes to recording. A freesat PVR will give you the same functionality of any previous television recorders or your existing Sky Plus digital recorder, but it will only receive "Freesat" channels. However there is plenty of choice with Freesat with over 200 channels to choose from. A definitive list of Freesat Channels can be viewed here. The choices for recording and pausing live TV are the Humax Foxsat HDR which was released last November, the Panasonic DVD recorder, the Panasonic Blue Ray DVD recorder (either 250gb or 500gb). Sagem are releasing their version from September which will come in either a 250gb or a 500gb version and Goodmans which is due for release at the moment can recorde up to 200 hours of high definition television. You can also buy television sets with a digital Freesat receiver encorporated within it. Your options are LG's LF7700 Freesat HD Series (32, 37, 42 inches), the Panasonic Full HD 1080p Digital LCD TV's (32, 37, 42 inches) and Panasonic Viera series. The functionality of these Freesat PVR boxes come with no subscription charges, which gives you great digital flexibility with no on-going costs. There is the initial cost of buying the Freesat PVR and the installation of the Satellite dish but this is a one off fee. Your existing Sky Satellite dish will work too, so you could save even more money by switching to a Freesat PVR. If you still think the option is too expensive perhaps you could consider one of the Argos buy now pay later options.