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With TV Essentials, you‘ll be able to Record, Pause and Rewind Free to air channels and make use of BBC and ITV catch up services as well as Channel 4 and Channel 5 catch up content in SD. You'll also benefit from limited access to Sky Go, so you can enjoy free to air content on the move.
May 28, 2024 · Sky TV Essentials is Sky's cheapest TV plan and offers customers a way to watch over 200 free-to-air channels broadcast over Freesat using a Sky satellite dish and the Sky Q box. The main benefit of the Sky Q box is the ability to pause and rewind live TV, as well as record programmes onto the 1TB of hard disk storage to watch later.
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- Up to 2160p Ultra HD
- Up to 150 hours of HD content
- 1TB
In this article, we’ll review the Sky Essentials deal with Sky Q Lite and Superfast Broadband. We’ll look at how the TV Essentials plan works, the channels you’ll get included with it, and how you can switch your broadband & TV provider to Sky.
Jan 10, 2024 · Before we do, is there any detailed information on Sky TV Essentials including a full list of the available channels, particularly HD channels? We read that TV Essentials is the free to air channels, but, we get more free to air HD channels on Freesat than we do on Freeview.
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- What Sky TV channels do I get with the basic Sky TV package?
- What can I watch with Sky TV?
- What Sky TV channels do I get with Sky Sports?
- What can I watch with Sky Sports?
- What Sky TV channels do you get with Sky Cinema?
- What can I watch with Sky Cinema?
- What other Sky TV channels can I add to my plan?
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By Luke Edwards
published 19 April 2021
Everything you need to know about Sky TV channels
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The best Sky TV deals and packages offer a variety of different content and it can be difficult to pinpoint the differentiations between each one at a glance. Luckily, we've delved into all the Sky TV channels you get dependent on which of its packages you go for.
While it may be considered the basic package of Sky, Sky TV gets you a whole host of entertainment to watch, boasting over 300 channels to switch your way through. These include:
•Sky One
•Sky Atlantic
•Fox
•Comedy Central
•Vice
Sky Atlantic features lots of premium viewing shipping over from the subscription US-only channel HBO Max. That includes the likes of Westworld, The Time Traveler's Wife, Euphoria, Hausen and plenty more including older but still great shows like Game of Thrones.
Then there are 200+ Sky Originals in total and this gets you the likes of Chernobyl, Riviera, Delicious and A Discovery of Witches that are also all available to watch on Sky.
Sky Sports is an expansive platform that includes not only lots of sports but also plenty of channels with many dedicated to specific sports like Formula One and Golf. Channels included with Sky Sports, all in HD, are:
•Sky Sports Main Event
•Sky Sports Premier League
•Sky Sports Football
•Sky Sports Cricket
•Sky Sports Golf
A lot of the Sky Sports channels explain themselves in the name but diving into each in more detail we find Sky Sports Football, for example, offers 146 live Premier League games this season, in HD. But you also get EFL, Scottish Premiership and Carabao Cup games. There's even LFCTV and MUTV, each dedicated to Liverpool and Manchester United football club specific content.
For Sky Sports F1 you get every practice, qualifying and race, live.
Sky Sports Golf offers the Ryder Cup live as well as every major.
Sky Sports Action and Sky Sports Arena offer live NBA, NFL, Netball, Boxing, Rugby Darts and more.
Sky Cinema is another area that encompasses a host of channels, each dedicated to its genre of movies, helping make the huge selection easier to navigate. Included with Sky Cinema are:
•Sky Cinema Action
•Sky Cinema Animation
•Sky Cinema Comedy
•Sky Cinema Drama
•Sky Cinema Family
Sky Cinema offers absolutely loads to watch, all included with the package including great new releases regularly. Plus you get reduced Sky Store rental rates for the very latest movies before they hit the mainstream.
There are plenty more Sky original movies to be found here along with big name hits like Le Mans '66, Bridesmaids, the Jumanji sequels, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Great Gatsby, Baby Driver, Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood, Soul, First Man and plenty more.
One of the big extra channels that Sky offers is BT Sport. This gets you all those FA Cup games which are exclusive to the channel that you wouldn't be able to watch without a specific subscription.
Kids is another channel selection worth adding if you've got little ones as it's not expensive and has lots of channels with over 5,000 episodes on demand. Channels include Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, BabyTV, Cartoonito and more. You can even create profiles for each child for specific content access.
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May 20, 2024 · Not content with making PVRs and streaming sticks, Sky made its own TV in 2022 and everything you need to watch Sky content is built-in. Sky channels and catch-up services are streamed over the internet, so there's no need for an aerial. You can buy the TV outright or spread the cost and pay for it monthly with your Sky subscription.
