Sky UK Launch New Cheaper Broadband-based Sky Glass Air TV Sets
As expected, Sky has today soft launched their new Sky Glass Air televisions for customers of their broadband-based pay TV streaming service, which is essentially a slimmed down version of their recently launched Gen 2 TVs (introduced February 2025). The new kit will become available to buy on Tuesday 10th June (Currys stores from 18th).
In case anybody has forgotten, the Sky Glass Gen 2 TVs were priced from £14 per month and came in several sizes – 43″, 55″ and 65″, as well as three updated colours, Volcanic Grey, Arctic Silver and Atlantic Blue. Cosmetically, they were a modest refinement on Sky’s original design, albeit with a brighter 4K Quantum Dot display and enhanced Dolby Atmos® sound via seven speakers (soundbar and dual subwoofer built-in). Not to mention a new stand and mount for flexibility.
However, Sky’s original announcement also teased another new TV set for the future – Sky Glass Air, which will also have a 4K Quantum Dot HDR screen, plus global dimming and contrast enhancements that automatically brightens the screen for a clearer, more vivid picture. But it only has 2.0 stereo speakers with Dolby Audio. In short, it was a cheaper, slimmed down version of the regular Gen 2 TVs, albeit with most of the same features and the full Sky OS (software).
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The big news today is that Sky will finally put these Sky Glass Air TV sets on sale from Tuesday next week (10th June), starting from just £6 a month at Sky.com, Sky stores, Sky call centres and Currys.co.uk. This is on top of a Sky Essential TV (or greater) subscription, which starts from £15 a month for new customers.
The Sky Glass Air TVs will be available in three colours – Sea Green, Carbon Grey, and Cotton White – and three sizes, 43”, 55”, and 65”, like normal.
Carli Kerr, MD of Sky TV & NOW TV, said:
“With Sky Glass Air, we’re bringing the Sky experience to more people through a beautifully designed TV with stunning picture quality from just £6 a month. It’s all about giving people better for less: more choice, great tech, and the content they love, without compromising on quality. From the ultimate performance of Glass Gen 2 to the incredible value of Air, there’s now a Sky Glass to suit everyone, whether you’re new to Sky or already with us.”
Take note that the £6 per month price mention above reflects their 43″ TV on an 48-month interest free loan, but prices may change during the 24-month Sky TV subscription (Sky often does annual price hikes) and there’s a one-off upfront payment of £20 to pay too. Pricing for a shorter 24-month interest free loan = £12pm for 43”, £20pm for 55”, £26pm for 65”.
Customers can also opt to pay for Sky Glass Air upfront, all in one go, which costs as follows: 43” – £309, 55” – £509 or 65” – £649. Consumers could alternatively forget Sky Glass entirely and go with the Sky Stream box(es) instead, which can be used with your existing TV set and for a lot of people that will make more sense.
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Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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It would be nice if branding departments were more imaginative. Not every company needs to name their product tiers “Air”, “Pro” and “Max” just because that’s what Apple do.
Given that 48″ OLED TVs (2024 models) have dropped to circa £360, I do wonder why Sky does not produce an OLED model, even if its not as great as current 2025 technology, it would still be better than LCD/LED.
It’s as if Sky stick with that technology, so that year after year, just a refinement on “better picture quality” without actually ever getting there, like OLED mostly does. In other words, cash generator for people to upgrade every year or two with marketing buzz words. Once you have OLED it’s a much harder sell to upgrade quickly, because perfect blacks etc are already there from day one.
Stick with an OLED TV and get Sky Stream or Sky Q. If you decide to get rid of those, your TV will stick pick up Freeview/Freesat/Freely depending on what tuners inside it, and not be crippled by likes of Sky because of no subscription.
Definitely agree and I left sky not through my own choice, and stuck paying for TV and the sky stream with the inability to use hardly any features there such con artist
Got a sky puck for “free” with my broadband package.
Probably touched it twice.
Sky are so out of touch. They need to get out of the hardware game and be release a Sky app.
They have, it’s called NOW TV. I wouldn’t be surprised to see NOW and Stream products merge at some point in the future.
Exactly, but you just know there’s an empire in that business that just won’t let go of building hardware and will claim it’s their “differentiator” and “they have NowTV” for that.
So you buy a TV that if you decide at some point not to subscribe to sky more or less becomes a doorstop? I presume it has HDMI, but from what I have heard there is no Freeview tuner in these sets.
Seems stupid to me if that is the case, sure I don’t use the tuner4 in my TV, as I watch everything online, but at least I have that choice, and it don’t cost me any more.
I said it before, and I will say it again, I don’t understand people.
If you cancel the subscription then you can access Freeview. The apps will still work as long as you don’t unlink the Glass from the Sky account and the HDMI ports still work.
One of the problems is as the owner of the TV you have no control over updates, Sky force them on you and unless you disconnect it from the internet you can’t stop it.
For a device you own you should have control over whether you accept an update or not especially considering Sky have a track record of introducing bugs on Glass
@Jack, so it does have a Freeview tuner built in? But as you said, Sky still have control of it, and it is not that good a TV, so I have been told.
It seems to becoming the norm these days, where companies have more control over the devices you use, Look at mobile phones for a start. Even printers are getting that they need an internet connection.
I got5 myself some new headphones, had them delivered yesterday, not had headphones for years, a nice pair of Sony Bluetooth ones and reading the manual, there is an app to go with it and firmware updates. Crazy. While they can be used without the app, I wonder how long it will be before a app for headphones need to be installed.
The app allows the so-called equaliser to be used.
‘Buy’ being used in the loosest of terms here.. Really you are just subscribing to own a screen with o tuner built in. Do yourself a favour and actually just ‘BUY’ a real TV, and then get now of those Sky pucks if you want to use there over the internet service, or get a streaming box and use Now TV. Much better and you have a usable TV than you actually own.