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Lounging around in the sun is great and all, but what to do on a rainy day? One option is to get some TV time in, and Sky’s got a few updates to share that might tempt you in front of a screen on dreary afternoons. At some point this summer, shows from Fox, Universal and SyFy will be available on Sky’s On Demand service, as well as content from Disney if you’re signed up for the Entertainment Extra package. Mobile apps will be getting a makeover, with “enhanced navigation” and a new design including bigger thumbnails when cruising through the VOD library. The Sky Go Xbox 360 app will also be updated to bring it in line with Microsoft’s UI style. Furthermore, Sky Multiroom subscribers will get access to Sky Go Extra, which allows you to download content in addition to streaming, at no extra cost in early July. Vitamin D’s overrated anyways.

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Microsoft is in negotiations with broadcaster Sky UK to offer a subsidized Xbox One, it’s reported, potentially even positioning the console as a new set-top box for the satellite TV service. The deal, which may already have been finalized according to MCV‘s sources, would see the next-gen console offered at a significant discount, it’s claimed,

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Broadcaster BSkyB has returned its Android apps to the Google Play store today, after pulling them earlier this month following the hacking of its Twitter account and Play listings by the Syrian Electronic Army. The hack, which took place on May 26, saw the official Sky Twitter account advise subscribers to uninstall the apps – which include Sky Go for on-demand streaming, and Sky+ for remotely managing DVRs – as they had been compromised. However, it was later revealed that there had been no such issue, though BSkyB still pulled its vandalized listings from the store.

For those who did not uninstall the apps when (erroneously) advised to, the broadcaster was adamant that they were safe to use. “Sky Android apps previously downloaded by Sky customers are unaffected and there is no need to remove them from an Android device” Sky tweeted following the hack.

However, that still left the apps missing for new downloads, a situation which has lingered since the weekend. The hacker group had modified the listings of each application to show its own logo, along with replacing the description of the app with “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here”.

Each of the restored applications, which showed up in the Play store earlier today, is dated May 31, though there’s no specific mention of the hack in any of the listings. The closest BSkyB gets is a reference to generic “bug fixes” in the change-logs.

May was a busy month for the Syrian Electronic Army, with the Sky hack just one of a number of attacks. The group also targeted UK broadcaster ITV, along with newspaper The Financial Times, while The Onion spun several satire stories out of an earlier breach of its own systems.

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Sky customers with On Demand or Sky Go access can snag an early look at the very first episode of Hannibal, along with Trollied, Mad Dogs and The Borgias. That first hit is due for a May 7th premiere on Sky Living at 10PM in the UK, but in what’s being billed as a television experiment of sorts, the show’s available now through On Demand with select Sky+ set-top boxes, or the Sky Go streaming service, if you’re able to access that. We can imagine plenty of other ways to get your fix without waiting for next Tuesday to roll around, but we’ll let you use your own imagination to tackle that one.

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Via: Pocket-lint

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The core of any good movie service is… good movies. We’re glad to hear, then, that Sky Movies has struck a years-long deal with UK outlet Entertainment Film Distributors to stream a large number of recent and back-catalog titles. The pact gives Sky access to Silver Linings Playbook and a slew of other notable movies during the initial pay-per-view and pay TV windows, which usually start six months after the releases leave theaters and last for over a year. The agreement isn’t so hot for those on rival services when Sky has an exclusive on subscription access, but its viewing is at least independent of both the platform and business model: customers can see the newly added flicks through a Now TV pass on their phones or rent them through the Sky Movies Box Office, for example. Older included titles like Gangs of New York are already available; if you’ve been waiting for Sky to get a healthier video selection before signing up, now’s as good a time as any to take a closer look.

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Source: Sky Movies