Celebrate Christmas With Sky+ Designer HD Boxes!

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Sky+ HD, a personal video recorder service of Sky, has been around for 10 years now. To celebrate a decade of giving users the ability to record their favorite TV programs, the digital satellite broadcaster has recently commissioned the released of new 1TB Sky+ HD boxes designed by several high-profile designers such as Matthew Williamson.

When asked regarding his design, the English fashion designer said: "This is a print I have taken from my new SS12 collection; the collection had a slight Japanese influence, notable here in the cut out areas of the Tokyo skyline visible within the distorted floral motifs”

He also added "I wanted the edges to appear neon and light-phased and have recoloured my original print in electric blue with a synthetic mint green contrast to emphasize this effect of blurred illumination".

Williamson isn’t the only one adding a fresh new-look to the black recorders. There are other limited edition boxes with designs coming from some big names in the British fashion industry, such as: Cecilia Birtwell, Richard Nicoll, Julie Verhoeven, and Farrow & Ball.

Hilary Perchard, Sky’s director of product management said "We're really excited about working with such a high-profile selection of designers to celebrate ten years of Sky+. These designs will really stand out in our customers' homes”.

If you’re interested in upgrading the old black box to a stylish and colorful new one, you can check out Sky’s website at https://designerbox.sky.com/?DCMP=BAC-designerboxes. Existing customers will pay £49 to upgrade to the HD pack, while new clients should expect to pay £149 for signing up with the HD pack.
 

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Clearly, you can if you stick a S_y badge on it! And just wait til next weeks Blue Peter! Sticky back plastic to brighten up your boring satellite receiver.
 

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Tivù said:
I was always given to understand one cannot polish a turd.

You dont watch Mythbusters do you? ;)
 

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With the knowledge of 'there's one born every minute' , this venture might well succeed.
 

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Money would have better spent on better software to stop them crashing after a power cut or heavy rain, and better capacitors in the power supply and a stronger tuner. Then WE would get "really excited" .
 

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Most of them look like a 5 yr old has stuck a roll of wallpaper from a charity reject shop onto an hd box.

If one of those turned up here Id take a baseball bat to it!
 

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Anyone owning one of these for last year's World Cup probably kicked it out of play afterwards :-doh2
 

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Tivù said:
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You can, but it's still a turd at the end of the day.... :-rofl2
 

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Wouldn't be seen dead with one of those gawdy lumps of carp under my TV ..
I _hate_ the word 'designer' ...it belongs in the same bin as 'Pamper' ...and 'Celeb' ....
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So the wise men continued to follow the star in search of the new born king and found Jesus with his mother in Bethlehem. (Most likely Jesus was already a few hours old by this time.) ..not quite old enough for a PS3....They bowed and worshipped him, offering treasures of gold, incense, and a gawdy Cristmas sly+ set top box. When they left, they did not return to Herod. They had been warned in a dream of his plot to destroy all of mankind by making them slaves to commercialism..

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Three random images of Williamson designer stuff
 

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Channel Hopper said:
Three random images of Williamson designer stuff

Hmmm ...I'm sure the designer bag would come in _very_ handy ...if you needed to get your canary to the vets...
;)
....but I've just realised its true function...
Its to let everyone see your latest designer smartphone..
 

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Vipersan said:
...if you needed to get your canary to the vets...
My thoughts exactly. I was looking for Tweety Pie in them.

It's not just age, gender and grumpiness, is it? They are all naff, aren't they?
 
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