Sky+HD at a glance
Sky+HD comes with all the benefits of Sky+ like pause and rewind live TV and Series Link, plus more storage capacity.
 
The widest range of HD channels in the UK
Up to 4 times more picture detail and incredibly vibrant colour
Superb quality Dolby® Digital 5.1 surround sound†
A collection of the week's unmissable TV, ready to watch when you are, with Sky Anytime
Record 2 programmes at once at the touch of a button
Record selected series automatically to watch whenever you want
Pause and rewind live TV and you'll never miss a thing
† Available on many HD programmes with a compatible TV and home cinema system.
 
- DVB-S2 demodulation capability used for HD transponders
- 500GB hard drive
- 250GB HD for customer recordings, 250GB HD reserved for TV Anytime and SKY use.
- v90 (56k bps) Modem
- 128Mb General RAM & 32 MB Decode RAM
- 2 x 16Mb Flash Memory (software downloads)
- 32Kb NVRAM (user settings storage)
- Digital Optical Output - supporting Dolby Digital 5.1
- Support for down sampling Dolby Digital to Dolby Prologic for other outputs
- MPEG2 / MPEG4 Decoder
- PAL i UHF Modulator (channel 21 -69 controlled by software) with 2 RF outputs (one capable of providing 9v to power TV link and accept remote commands)
- HDMI connector
- Component Video - Y pb pr
- TV SCART (composite video out, RGB in)
- VCR SCART (composite video in/out, RGB in)
- S-Video output (permanantly on)
- RJ11 telephone socket
- Left and right Phono outputs
- 2 ISO 7816 compatible Smartcard Slots
- 2 USB ports (1 front & 1 rear) reserved for future use
- 2 cooling fans - 1 in base, 1 on front left side of box
- RJ45 / Ethernet socket - reserved for future use
- SATA interface - reserved for Future use