Since the launch of the original Digibox in 1998 the Sky box has been the most popular digital set-top box in the UK. It's been through several versions - the Sky+ Box, a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) with varying sizes of memory added for recording programmes and the Sky+HD Box, which first emerged in 2006. In January 2010 Sky took the decision to discontinue the Sky+ Box and limit the original box to Multiroom upgrades, leaving the Sky+HD Box as the standard issue with all new contracts - you can then choose whether to subscribe to the HD channel package for an extra £10 per month.
The Sky+HD Box now comes with all new contracts and it enables you to use the Sky+ service - with this you can record programmes and pause and rewind live TV, as well as setting the box to record an entire series and other great features. The box has enough memory to record up to 80 hours of regular TV or 30 hours of HD TV, and features an HDMI HD TV output (among the many connections on the back) which, together with an HD ready TV and the HD Pack for an extra £10 per month, is all you need to go 'HD' - Sky refer to this as Supertelly. Let's take a closer look at the box itself...
The picture above shows the controls and indicator lights on the front of the HD box and below you can see the connections on the rear...
What can you do with the Sky+HD Box? Pretty much everything you could want including