Access to HD versions of Sky Sports and Sky Movies requires a separate HD pack subscription, priced at £5.25 per month.
As of late 2013, the £10.25/month HD pack stopped being offered to new customers, instead suggesting customers subscribe to the Family package, then carrying a £5/month premium over the cost of the regular Variety package. The Sky+ box was subsequently withdrawn, meaning the Sky+ HD became part of a standard installation. In January 2010, customers started being offered the Sky+ HD box as standard, with the HD package being optional at the same subscription price. The launch line-up consisted of Sky One HD, Sky Arts HD, Sky Movies 9 HD, Sky Movies 10 HD, Sky Sports HD, Discovery HD, National Geographic Channel HD, Sky Box Office HD 1 and Sky Box Office HD 2 (now Sky Movies Box Office). The HD package launched with a one-year minimum subscription duration. Customers who pre-ordered by paying a deposit before 6 April 2006 were the first to receive the service, with installations starting on following over 40,000 advance orders of the service the number of Sky+HD pre-orders surpassed the total sales in the first year of Sky+. Prices on launch were announced as £299 for a HD set-top box, with an additional £10 a month HD subscription on top of any existing packages. Launched in May 2006, Sky HD brought high-definition television to the consumer market, initially consisting of nine HD channels. Existing customers can continue their subscription with Sky+ HD. įrom October 2016, Sky+ HD is no longer being offered as it was replaced by Sky Q. Additional Pay-Per-View events on Sky Box Office HD are not available to customers unless they subscribe to the Sky HD pack.Īs of June 2014, subscription numbers for Sky+HD stood at over 5.2 million, an increase from 4.8 million the year before. A subscription to the original HD pack carries an extra fee of £10.25 (€17.00 in Ireland) a month in addition to the standard Sky subscription, allowing customers to view HD channels corresponding to the channel packs subscribed to. The service requires the user to have a Sky+ HD Digibox and an HD ready TV.
For the first two years after launch, the service was branded Sky HD. Sky+ HD was the brand name of the HDTV service launched by Sky plc on in the United Kingdom and Ireland to enable high definition channels on Sky to be viewed.