Sky TV – Entertainment Options for Holiday Season

During these uneasy times of severe economic recession, every good business houses and retails spend numerous hours researching the current market trends to help create marketing strategies to sell their produce. To stay in business means, to find new way to market your product, and keep ahead of competition and this is never easy. Every retail house is faced with the fear of losing customers to cheaper retailers if they do not invent new means to market and sell their products at revised rates and discounts. The retail strategy in play during the recession is all too different from what it was in healthier economic times and every retail segment is facing a different kind of challenge though the root cause to all is the same. And new marketing strategies are evolving all the time. One such marketing fad that has caught up with the public at least in UK is the online voucher codes.

Voucher codes are offered to online shoppers. Offering discounts on almost anything and everything the voucher codes have caught up with all customers who do not have the time to venture out shopping or those who wish to save on their shopping time. Sky TV is promoting its Christmas time shopping by giving away Mark and Spencer vouchers worth £ 50 to customers who shop online for its Sky+HD digital receiver with a subscription for 12 months. Existing customers who would like to switch to HD and also new customers, who shop online before 17 December, 2009 stand to gain from a free HD box and the M&S shopping voucher.

The Sky TV promotion is being marketed in thematically chosen packages that covers variety, music, knowledge, news and events, style and culture, and children’s’ pack. The best of all the US and UK movies, music, sports, world news, documentaries and wildlife channels will rock your living rooms starting this festive season in HD format, if you buy yourself a Sky+HD package. Your children will enjoy the cartoons and the children’s movies while also being thoroughly entertained and educated by the wide variety pf channels and programs that are aired under the Sky TV umbrella. Others have the choice of watching almost 35 channels in Sky+HD of which 9 are movie channels and 3 sports. Fans and followers of football will make a feast of the offering with over 120 games being telecast live. There are also other sports on offer like golf, cricket, hockey and all that interesting fixtures over the next calendar year.

The free HD box that comes along in the Sky+HD package has the capacity to record as well as sore the programs of your choice. That way it can substitute your digital video recorder for recording TV shows. There is also the facility of Remote Recording available wherein users have to login to the Sky TV website and make a request for recording your favorite show while you are away from home. The request needs to be made half an hour the show is aired. This facility is chargeable.