Sky Box Office

Description: Sky Box Office is the name of BSkyB's Pay Per View (PPV) system. It shows movies and occasionally sporting events. As ... more

Sky Box Office ... of 2005, it has 52 'screens', Sky having recently closed 8 additional screens to save bandwidth for their HDTV services. Sky Box Office launched on 16th March 1996 on Sky Analogue. At the time it carried mainly sporting events, such as major boxing fights. The first of these was Frank Bruno's WBC World Heavyweight Championship defence against Mike Tyson. Initially events were ordered by telephone, either on the day of broadcast for £14.95 or in advance at a reduced price of £9.99. Ordering an event charged the viewer's card with a token which, in conjunction with the VideoCrypt system, unlocked the broadcast. The charge would be levied unless the viewer cancelled prior to broadcast, or returned the viewing card as proof that the event hadn't been watched.

Newest Review: ... way to win a world title if truth be told. Though before people think I am totally against the concept of Sky Box Office for sport they do sometimes have the really big fights that deserve the PPV status. The fight earlier this year between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton for example deserved the £15 price tag for the simple fact it was a genuinely huge fight, it ... more

... featured the worlds best fighter (I thought he beat Juan Manuel Marquez both times and Floyd was "retired" until the day before the fight) and the long term #1 at the 140 Light Welterweight division. It featured the "linear" ti...more

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Sky Box Office: Thank god for Justin TV (1512 words)
by - written on 11/09/09 (Very useful, 191 readings)
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Being a huge boxing fan has left out of pocket on many occasions and not to help matters is the PPV (pay Per View) service offered by Sky on Sky Box Office. In the USA boxing has been a PPV sport for quite a while for some of the huge mega fights over there on both HBO and Showtime's PPV services, in fact fighters can be signed to one of the networks who then control the fighters future fights almost as much, if not more so than their own manager. Though in the UK boxing had generally been on ITV and BBC until quite recently then Sky picked it up with the rise of fighters like Naseem Hamed and Chris Eubank in the 1990's. Later on Sky realised customers that we're already ... Read the complete review

Sky Box Office (197 words)
by - written on 16/12/08 (Useful, 409 readings)
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As a movie lover I have to say that a subscription to Sky Movies is very important to me. I am currently signed up on a special offer where I am paying £5 per month for their full range of movies. I have also on occasion paid for a Sky Box Office movie, although I try not to do this too often. At the moment it costs over £3 to pay to watch a movie, whilst special events such as pay-per-view concerts and wrestling matches cost a lot more. Personally I prefer to wait a few months until I can see them on the Sky Movies channels for a lot cheaper. Having said that there are a lot of good movies available on the Sky Box Office channels. If you don't want ... Read the complete review

Sky Box Office - RUBBISH (206 words)
by - written on 05/10/08 (Useful, 394 readings)
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I have only used Sky Box Office a number of times. Purely because if my friends and I are having a night in and had a little bit to drink we cant drive to buy or rent the dvd we are wanting to watch. It costs £3 per film and it automatically gets put on your monthly bill, thats fine by me but if you are wanting to watch more than one film you might aswell upgrade you sky package for near enough the same price. Sky state you can tape the film but when i tried it came up with an error so i rang customer serive. They informed me that there is some kind of block which prevents me from taping it. So why give out false information??? The films on box office are ... Read the complete review

Express Review on Sky Box Office
by Ace - written on 22/01/07
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Sky is a rip off, why not watch sky tv including all the premiership games, and movies for free using easy to load software. I bought from this guy and its awesome - my bills went from thirty pounds to nothing! LOL

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Sky Box Office: Sky WILL lose customers in this rip-off! (521 words)
by - written on 17/11/02 (Very useful, 3537 readings)
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I have been a subscriber to SKY TV for over 10 years, in the main to watch movies (and don't watch sport), however in the past 18 months or so, due to the nature of my work, I barely have had time to catch one on their regular "SKY Movie World" package costing £32 per month. As a result I started scaling back on subscription costs to their basic "SKY Entertainment Package, Value Pack" and decided to watch movies, as and when, via SKY Box Office, paying per movie. The only way to have access to Box Office is to be a SKY subscriber, hence when I scaled back to their Value Pack late last year @ £5.00 per month, I found this to be ... Read the complete review