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Sky Box Office
Sky Box Office is Sky's pay-per-view (PPV) system operated in the United Kingdom and Ireland. There were three branded divisions of Sky Box Office – Sky Cinema Box Office (formerly Sky Movies Box Office), Sky Sports Box Office and Sky 3D Box Office. Until 1 February 2011, the system ran under unified Sky Box Office branding. On 4 January 2017, all Sky Cinema Box Office channels ceased broadcasting, with only Sky Sports Box Office remaining available.
Sky Box Office launched on 16 March 1996, initially to carry pay-per-view boxing fights, with the service launching to cover 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 and then the subscriber's VideoCrypt viewing card would be activated over the air, enabling the viewing of 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. On some occasions, Box Office events would be broadcast on other Sky channels, such as Sky Sports 3.
The service expanded into movies on 1 December 1997 when four dedicated Sky Box Office channels were launched, which featured multiple showings of selected movies, shown in advance of their broadcast on Sky's existing subscription movie channels. At least one hour pre-ordering was required, and for most movies one purchase only bought one viewing.
With the move to Sky Digital in 1998, where the Sky Digibox provided a data return path, events and movies – the latter now copy protected – could be bought minutes before or even during the event either by telephone or through an on-screen menu and PIN system.
Sky launched a sister pay-per-view channel in August 2001, Premiership Plus, which showed select football matches from the Premier League live. The service closed in 2007 as Sky were forced by the European Union to break their broadcasting monopoly on the competition. A second sister PPV channel, F1 Digital+, was launched in 2002 in partnership with Formula One Administration Limited to offer extensive live coverage of Formula One races. The channel was not successful and closed down at the end of the year after just a single season.
A range of pay-per-view 3-D films were also screened on Sky 3D.
On 1 February 2011, Sky Box Office was rebranded as Sky Movies Box Office for movies. Later in the year, Sky Sports Box Office branding was added for sports and Sky 3D Box Office for 3D.
On 4 January 2017, all Sky Cinema Box Office channels ceased broadcasting, with only Sky Sports Box Office remaining available.
Sky Box Office
Sky Box Office is Sky's pay-per-view (PPV) system operated in the United Kingdom and Ireland. There were three branded divisions of Sky Box Office – Sky Cinema Box Office (formerly Sky Movies Box Office), Sky Sports Box Office and Sky 3D Box Office. Until 1 February 2011, the system ran under unified Sky Box Office branding. On 4 January 2017, all Sky Cinema Box Office channels ceased broadcasting, with only Sky Sports Box Office remaining available.
Sky Box Office launched on 16 March 1996, initially to carry pay-per-view boxing fights, with the service launching to cover 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 and then the subscriber's VideoCrypt viewing card would be activated over the air, enabling the viewing of 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. On some occasions, Box Office events would be broadcast on other Sky channels, such as Sky Sports 3.
The service expanded into movies on 1 December 1997 when four dedicated Sky Box Office channels were launched, which featured multiple showings of selected movies, shown in advance of their broadcast on Sky's existing subscription movie channels. At least one hour pre-ordering was required, and for most movies one purchase only bought one viewing.
With the move to Sky Digital in 1998, where the Sky Digibox provided a data return path, events and movies – the latter now copy protected – could be bought minutes before or even during the event either by telephone or through an on-screen menu and PIN system.
Sky launched a sister pay-per-view channel in August 2001, Premiership Plus, which showed select football matches from the Premier League live. The service closed in 2007 as Sky were forced by the European Union to break their broadcasting monopoly on the competition. A second sister PPV channel, F1 Digital+, was launched in 2002 in partnership with Formula One Administration Limited to offer extensive live coverage of Formula One races. The channel was not successful and closed down at the end of the year after just a single season.
A range of pay-per-view 3-D films were also screened on Sky 3D.
On 1 February 2011, Sky Box Office was rebranded as Sky Movies Box Office for movies. Later in the year, Sky Sports Box Office branding was added for sports and Sky 3D Box Office for 3D.
On 4 January 2017, all Sky Cinema Box Office channels ceased broadcasting, with only Sky Sports Box Office remaining available.