Last chance for this Sky Ireland offer! Get a FREE Sky Plus Box and FREE standard set up when you sign up online to Sky Ireland as a new Sky TV customer. But you will have to be quick… this Sky Ireland offer has only been extended until 25 May 2011.

What does Sky Ireland cost?

Sky TV in the Republic of Ireland starts at only 23 Euros a month for one entertainment pack (there are six entertainment packs). After your first entertainment pack, further packs cost only 2 Euros a month each! That means you could be enjoying all six Sky TV entertainment packs for only 33 Euros a month. The six Sky entertainment packs are: Variety, Style and Culture, Knowledge, Music, News and Events, and Children’s. There is also a bonus pack that you receive, which includes CBBC, CBeebies, BBC 1, 2, 3 and 4, Channel 4, E4 and More4, RET1 and RTE 2. Want the premium Sky Sports and Sky Movies channels? There is a further charge for these.

And until 25 May 2011 when you sign up online with Sky Ireland, you will also get a FREE Sky Plus Box and FREE standard set up.

About the Sky Plus Box

With the Sky Plus Box you can:

• remote record record, rewind and pause live TV
• record up to 185 hours of standard programming
• record a series at the touch of a button with Series Link
• remote record

Visit Sky Ireland now and sign up online as a new customer – and get a FREE Sky Plus Box and FREE standard set up.

First published 24 May 2011. Please note that blog posts remain live, and any offers or information may no longer be current when you view this page.

Sign up online to Sky Plus and get a £25 M&S voucher, as long as you are a new Sky TV customer signing up online. This Sky Plus offer has now been extended until 23 September 2010! You can also get a FREE Sky Box to record, pause and rewind live TV.

Sign up now to Sky Plus online and get your £25 M&S voucher.

How to get that £25 Marks and Spencer voucher from Sky Plus

You need to be a new Sky TV customer, and to sign up online, to Sky Plus to get your £25 Marks and Spencers voucher from Sky. Just make sure you sign up to Sky Plus before 23 September 2010 and activate your Sky viewing card by 23 October 2010.

Sky Plus – costs and charges

Sky Plus costs from £19 a month. There is also a one-off installation cost:

• Sky TV costs from £19 as month for one Sky entertainment pack. There are six Sky entertainment packs in all. The six Sky entertainment packs are Variety, News & Events, Style & Culture, Music, Kids, and Knowledge. Each further pack after your first one costs only an additional £1 per month so you can get all six for only £24 a month!
• If you want, add Sky Sports and/or Sky Movies, premium channels with an extra cost. Sky Sports costs £12 for Sky Sports 1 or Sky Sports 2, or £20 a month for both. Sky Movies 1 and Sky Movies 2 each cost £8 a month, with both costing £16 a month.
• You will need a Sky Plus Box – which is currently FREE as a new Sky customer! The Sky Plus Box means you can record, rewind and pause live TV, remote record, and record some series at the touch of a button with Series Link.
• Sky Plus standard installation is £30

About this Sky Plus £25 M&S voucher offer – and sign up to Sky Plus online

(remember, you need to be a new Sky TV customer and get your £25 M&S voucher and your FREE Sky Plus Box.)

First published August 27 2010. Please note that blog posts remain live, and any offers or information may no longer be current when you view this page.

Sky Sports News is now available on Sky TV, on Sky channel 455. To get Sky Sports News in HD you will have to subscribe to any Sky Sports pack, or sign up to the News and Events entertainment pack as part of your sky TV bundle. But until 23 February 2011 you can get Sky Sports News HD at no extra cost if you are a Sky HD customer!

Getting Sky Sports News HD

• To access Sky Sports News HD, you need to join or already be a subscriber to Sky TV
• You will also need the monthly subscription to the Sky HD pack – currently £10 a month for Sky TV customers
• And of course you must have an HD ready TV so you can receive HD TV broadcasts

But don’t forget the special Sky HD offer – All Sky HD customers will also receive Sky Sports News HD at no extra cost until 23 February 2011.

Join Sky TV now with Sky HD.

And once the Sky Sports News HD offer ends?

Then to receive Sky SPorts News HD you will need to subscribe to the News and Events Pack from Sky TV as one of your entertainment packs – Sky entertainment packs cost £19 a month for one entertainment pack, then a further £1 each per month for each extra Sky entertainment pack. There are six Sky TV entertainment packs in all. And/OR you can subcribe to any Sky Sports Pack to get Sky Spors News in HD.

What is so great about Sky Sports News in HD?

Sky Sports News has long been sports fans’ number one choice for breaking news and exclusive insight – so imagine how much better it will be in HD! So make sure you get Sky Sports News HD now and enjoy crystal clear sound, fabulous picture clarity and beautiful vibrant colour!

Sky HD and Sky TV current offers

There are lots of great Sky TV and Sky HD offers at the moment, especially online (Sky’s best deals are online).

• New Sky TV customers get a £25 M&S voucher when they join online
• New Sky TV customers signing up online to the monthly HD pack get a £50 M&S voucher
• New Sky HD customers joining online also get a FREE Sky HD Box.
• Until 23/02/11 Sky HD customers get access to Sky Sports News HD too.

So sign up to Sky TV HD today and get a £50 M&S voucher, a FREE Sky HD box AND access to Sky Sports News HD!

First published August 24 2010. Please note that blog posts remain live, and any offers or information may no longer be current when you view this page.

You can now get a FREE BT Vision Box with any BT Vision Value Packs. That’s a saving of £45 on the Bronze, Silver and Gold BT Vision Value Packs! This amazing BT Vision Box offer of a FREE BT Vision Plus Box is available until the end of 2010. Find out more below about how BT Vision works – the BT Vision Box, the BT Vision viewing packs you can choose from, and the BT Vision Value Packs which are often the most cost effective way to watch a wide range of  programmes and films.

What can the BT Vision Plus Box do?

• Record and store up to 80 hours of Freeview TV with a huge 160GB hard drive.
• also works as a Freeview set-top box – pause, rewind and record live TV.
• The £45 cost of the BT Box, the BT vision Plus Box, will be credited back to your BT Vision account in your first or second month.

BT Vision Box – more about the BT Vision Plus Box

BT Vision Value Packs – what you get, and prices

Value packs are a value for money way to get the most out of BT Vision and your FREE BT Box! There are three BT Vision Value Packs – Bronze, Silver and gold, which include from two to four BT vision Viewing Packs and have a couple more thrown in for good measure!

• Bronze Value pack – choose two BT Vision Viewing Packs. £7.50 a month for 3 months then £14.99 a month.
• Silver Value Pack – choose three BT Vision Viewing Packs. £10.50 a month for 3 months then £17.99 a month.
• Gold Value Pack – choose four BT Vision Viewing Packs. £12.50 a month for 3 months then £19.99 a month.

BT Vision will also give you the Viewing Packs TV and Replay, free of charge with EVERY VALUE PACK. you can still watch other TV shows on a pay per view basis (from 39p per show) so you aren’t restricted to just what is in your Value Packs.  All BT Vision Value Packs are on a 12 month contract.

All BT Vision Value Packs come with a FREE BT Box, the BT Vision Plus Box, until the end of 2010 – a saving of £45!

BT Vision information

BT Vision is on-demand digital TV for BT home broadband users. BT Vision offers the best in on demand TV, film, sport and music. There are thousands of shows to watch on demand, including sports TV, kids’ TV, music videos, films and more. there are no adverts, and you can watch them whenever you want!  You can choose to pay for whatever you watch so you are truly in control. Or sign up for one or more of the fantastic BT Vision Viewing Packs, or the BT Vision Value Packs that include two or more Viewing Packs, for a monthly cost. There are thousands of hours of digital TV and HD shows to watch when you want.

You need to have BT home broadband to get BT Vision, so if you already have BT home broadband and want to upgrade to include BT Vision, or you want to switch broadband provider to BT home broadband, you can do that as part of the BT Vision sign up process.

BT Vision Viewing Packs

The programmes and films available on BT vision are divided into Viewing Packs. You can sign up for a single Viewing Pack, though it is often better value to get one or more BT Vision Value Packs instead, which include two, three or four BT Vision viewing packs and also TV and Replay.
The BT Viewing Packs are: Kids £6.99/month, Music £6.99/month, Film Club £6.99/month, Vision Sport £6.99/month, TV £6.99/month, TV & Replay £9.98/month.

More about BT Viewing Packs

BT Vision optional extras – from sports to Bollywood!

You can also sign up for BT Vision’s optional extras – Watch more sport on Freeview with ESPN (£6.99 a month), Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 (channels 34, 41  and 42 – £11.99 a month for Sky Sports 1 or 2, £16.99 a month for Sky Sports 1 AND Sky Sports 2), Indian on-demand entertainment with Bolly and Beyond (£6.99 a month). These extra channels are on one month contracts. Sign up when you order your Value Pack.

Visit BT Vision now to find out more about your FREE BT Vision Box, the BT Vision Plus Box, and how to sign up.

First published August 18 2010. Please note that blog posts remain live, and any offers or information may no longer be current when you view this page.

Sports fans take note – you can now get 3 months FREE on ESPN! Just sign up to Sky TV and the Sky Sports & ESPN package, or if you are already a Sky customer upgrade to the Sky Sports & ESPN package, and you will get ESPN FREE for 3 months. Sign up for Sky HD as well and you will also get access to ESPN HD and ESPN America HD! Now is the perfect time to go HD with Sky as there are so many Sky HD offers available – currently with one month credited back to your account, a free Sky HD Box AND a £50 M&S voucher. And ESPN HD channel is only available on Sky.

So check out the two ESPN / ESPN HD offers available – one for existing Sky customers upgrading to the Sky Sports & ESPN package; and one for new Sky TV customers signing up to Sky TV and the Sky Sports & ESPN package.

About ESPN HD

When you sign up for  Sky HD, you get access to all the available HD channels of the packs you have chosen. So if you get ESPN as part of your Sky TV package, you will also get ESPN HD and ESPN America HD. Why go HD? Currently you can get the first month on your HD subscription FREE, and you can get a FREE Sky HD Box. Plus a £50 M&S voucher when you sign up to Sky HD online! HD offers five times the picture clarity, fantastic colour and amazing sound.

Do you want ESPN in HD? Then just sign up for Sky TV and the Sky Sports & ESPN package, and also sign up for the Sky HD monthly pack.

ESPN and ESPN HD prices

• Sky TV basic package costs from £19 a month for one Sky TV entertainment pack (each further entertainment pack costs an extra £1 up to £23 a month for all six).
• The Sky Sports package costs £20 a month
• Adding ESPN to the Sky Sports package costs £9 a month – currently FREE for first 3 months
• The monthly HD pack (which you will need if you want ESPN HD) costs £10 a month, but currently your first month’s Sky HD subscription is credited back to your account!
• Sky HD Box is FREE when you sign up online to Sky HD
• £50 M&S voucher if you sign up to Sky HD online

Sign up for the Sky HD monthly pack now

ESPN or ESPN with HD for new Sky customers

New Sky TV customers New customers can join Sky TV with the Sky Sports Pack and receive ESPN for 3 months without charge. After 3 month offer ends, you can keep ESPN and pay £9 extra a month. Hurry as this Sky ESPN offer for new Sky customers expires on 20 August 2010.  Want ESPN HD? then you will also need the HD  monthly subscription pack (£10 a month, first month credited back to your account. FREE Sky HD Box also available. £50 M&S voucher available if you sign up to Sky HD online).

Sign up for Sky TV and for Sky Sports Pack with ESPN and get 3 months free ESPN.

ESPN or ESPN with HD for existing Sky customers

Existing Sky TV customers Existing Sky TV customers can upgrade to Sky Sports pack with ESPN and get three months of ESPN FREE. After 3 month offer ends, you can keep ESPN and pay £9 extra a month. Sky TV ESPN Offer for existing Sky customers is only available until 20 September 2010. If you want ESPN then you will also need the HD monthly subscription pack (£10 a month, first month credited back to your account. FREE Sky HD Box also available. £50 M&S voucher if you sign up to Sky HD online).

Upgrade to Sky Sports Pack with ESPN, and get ESPN free for 3 months.

What’s available on ESPN?

• Football fixtures include pre-season friendlies featuring Spurs, Man  City, Man Utd, Newcastle and Rangers (17th July- 7th August). They also  have International friendlies (10th & 11th August) including an  England U21 game and this is all in the next couple of weeks.
• Barclays Premier League (BPL) season opener is the championship  contenders Chelsea against newly promoted West Brom (Saturday 14th  August). Plus many more games to follow.
• For the first time, ESPN is showing 25 live exclusive FA Cup games from November 2010 including one semi-final.
• Live games also from the SPL, Serie A, UEFA Europa League, Coppa Italia,  Bundesliga, Russian premier league, the Eredivisie (Dutch league) and  MLS (Major League Soccer America) will all be available on ESPN.
• ESPN will broadcast all home Euro  2012 qualifiers and friendlies for both Germany and France over the  coming months, live and exclusively in the UK.
• 43 Aviva Rugby premiership games (formerly Guinness premiership) brand new to ESPN this season.
• JP Morgan Premiership 7s (Rugby) starting on the 16th July and running for 4 Fridays
• The French Top 14 Rugby – with live games on ESPN starting on the 13th August.
• American Sports including NBA Basketball, NHL Ice Hockey, NCAA College  Football and College Basketball, MLB Major League Baseball
• Customers taking the ESPN a la carte pack get ESPN & ESPN America when they subscribe
• Plus lots more

Both ESPN sports channels are available in HD – only with Sky TV will you  will get both ESPN channels (ESPN and ESPN America) in HD.

So upgrade to Sky Sports Pack with ESPN, and get ESPN free for 3 months or sign up for Sky TV and the Sky Sports Pack with ESPN and get 3 months free ESPN.

NEW CUSTOMER ESPN OFFER ENDS 20 AUGUST 2010. EXISTING CUSTOMER ESPN OFFER ENDS 20 SEPTEMBER 2010

First published August 14 2010. Please note that blog posts remain live, and any offers or information may no longer be current when you view this page.