Sky today announces the launch of the UK's most comprehensive Ultra HD service on Sky Q Silver, available to customers from 13 August. Offering an unrivalled line up of Premier League football, exclusive blockbuster movies, natural history documentaries and gripping dramas, viewers will be brought to the heart of the action at home, in enhanced Ultra HD picture quality.

Customers will be able to immerse themselves in 124 live Premier League games this season, and over 70 movies, from the world premiere of Spectre in Ultra HD, to Oscar Winner The Revenant, and box office hit The Martian. There will also be 30 hours of natural history and documentaries, with breath-taking scenes from David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies, as well as five new dramas, including hotly anticipated The Young Pope starring Jude Law and Series 4 of The Blacklist.

And this is just the start, with more sports, movies, documentaries and drama, in spectacular Ultra HD, to come soon.

Luke Bradley-Jones, Director of TV & Content Products, commented: 'With Sky Q, we created the world's best TV experience. Now with the introduction of an unrivalled line-up of Ultra HD TV, the service is going to get even better, truly enhancing customers' viewing experience. So whether you're a football fan, movie buff, natural history enthusiast or drama junkie, customers looking for the next-generation of TV viewing will love it.'

Watch live, On Demand and through Sky Store, Ultra HD is available to customers with a Sky Q Silver box and subscription at no extra cost.

From 13 August, customers will be able to watch the most comprehensive range of sports, movies, documentaries and dramas in the enhanced detail and clarity of Ultra HD, with highlights in the first year including:

  • 124 live Premier League games including the first game of the new season Hull City v Leicester City
  • Every race from Formula 1® 2017
  • Over 70 movies with premieres including Spectre, The Revenant, The Martian, Bridge of Spies, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and Concussion
  • Over 30 Sky Store rental movies from Angry Birds to the entire Ghostbusters and Men In Black box sets
  • The biggest ever library of movies from Minority Report to Forrest Gump, The Godfather, Jerry Maguire, Zoolander, The Da Vinci Code and Spider-Man trilogy
  • Ultra HD movie themed collections including Blockbusters, Action, Drama and Oscar winners
  • 30 hours of natural history and documentaries, from Sky's David Attenborough catalogue to Sky 1's Big Cats: An Amazing Animal Family and brand new Monkeys: An Amazing Animal Family, as well as Richard Hammond's Jungle Quest, plus National Geographic programmes including new Story of God with Morgan Freeman
  • Five new dramas including The Young Pope, featuring Jude Law, and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, a joint production of Sky, HBO and Canal+, as well as new Series 4 of The Blacklist, and the box set Series 1-3.
  • Plus other entertainment, including comedy series The Trip To Spain starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, Sky Arts' Landscape Artist of the Year 2016 and Blur in concert

Sky Q, the next generation home entertainment system, just got better with Ultra HD. Sky Q is a great new way for customers to experience TV on their terms, with brilliant new features like the ability to record multiple shows at once, pause in one room and carry on in another and take recordings with you. Sky Q will continue to get even better with other exciting features coming soon, including voice search navigation and a smartphone app.

For further information, please contact:

Sky

Sarah El-Hadidy

Sarah.El-Hadidy@sky.uk

Notes to Editors

Ultra HD is the latest video format, up to four times the definition of HD.

Ways of watching

To watch Ultra HD, customers will need the Sky Q Silver box and subscription, and a compatible Ultra HD TV. You need the Sky Q Silver bundle to enjoy watching documentaries and entertainment, plus Sky Sports and Sky Cinema subscriptions to watch sports and movies in Ultra HD. Sky Store movies can be rented by anyone with a Sky Q Silver box. To find out more please visit www.sky.com/ultrahd

Setup

You experience the benefits of Ultra HD when your resolution is set to 2160p. You'll need an Ultra HD TV that supports 2160p at 50 frames per second and HDCP 2.2.

Customers can setup their Sky Q Silver box to be Ultra HD ready from the end of July, and can start watching programmes from 13 August. To set your resolution go to settings > setup > audio visual > and select 2160p. If you do not setup you will be prompted to when you attempt to view in Ultra HD - press the red button and follow the on screen instructions.

Sports

There are a few ways you can enjoy watching sports in Ultra HD:

  • When you tune into a channel with a live programme available in Ultra HD a prompt will appear on screen. Select the prompt and you'll be taken directly to the Ultra HD live broadcast. You can change between watching the HD and Ultra HD broadcast at any time through the Mini Guide.
  • To watch sports live or find sports coming up over the next seven days, go to the Sky Sports Home Page, select Ultra HD and you can tune in live or book a recording.
  • You can also watch sports in Ultra HD through the sports red button application.

Movies, documentaries, drama & entertainment

  • Movies, documentaries, drama and entertainment are all available On Demand in Ultra HD. Go to the relevant section in the Home Page, select the Ultra HD tab and start downloading.
  • For Sky Cinema, go to Home > Sky Cinema > Ultra HD and browse for movies you'd like to download and watch.
  • For documentaries and other box sets go to Home > Sky Box Sets > Ultra HD.
  • For Sky Store rental movies go to Home > Sky Store > Featured > Ultra HD.
  • For Catch Up go to Home > Catch up > Featured > Channel (e.g. Sky Atlantic) > Ultra HD. This is where you'll find series, drama and entertainment currently broadcasting or broadcast in the last 30 days.

About Sky

Sky is Europe's leading entertainment company, serving 21 million customers across five countries: UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. We offer the best and broadest range of content, deliver market-leading customer service and use innovative new technology to give customers a better TV experience, whenever and wherever they choose.

Sky has annual revenues of over £11 billion and is Europe's leading investor in television content with a combined programming budget of £4.9 billion. The group employs 30,000 people and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (SKY).

For more information visit www.sky.com/corporate.

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