Sky+ adds catch up and larger storage

Sky+ has announced the launch of a brand new Catch Up TV service and more personal storage.

From today, Sky+ has added a new 7-day Catch Up TV section to its On Demand service (previously known as Sky Anytime).

Customers will be able to keep up to date with their favourite Sky shows and also get programmes from ITV Player and Demand 5, with BBC iPlayer coming this autumn and 4oD arriving in early 2013. Sky’s On Demand service also includes access to box sets such as Mad Men, An Idiot Abroad and Mad Dogs available at no extra charge to Sky customers.

Everything is separated into simple categories so it is easy to find what you want to watch and search by most popular, by genre and by day. So if customers hear about a show they missed or forget to record a crucial episode, it will be ready and waiting for them. All they need to do to access Catch Up is to activate On Demand and connect the Sky+HD box to their broadband router for no extra monthly cost.

Coinciding with the roll-out of Catch Up TV, Sky customers will now also be able to store more shows with the launch this week of a new Sky+HD 2TB box. In response to customer demand for extra space, the Sky+HD 2TB box provides six times more storage than a regular Sky+HD box, giving it more personal storage than any other subscription TV provider.

Luke Bradley-Jones, Sky’s brand director for TV products comments: “Since launch, Sky+ has led the revolution in how we watch TV and let more than nine million households take control of their viewing. We’re pushing forward again by offering customers even more flexibility, more personal storage and entirely new ways of engaging with their favourite TV. With customers using Sky+ a staggering total of more than a billion times each month, it remains the gold standard in pay-TV.”