Opening feature
Start with a film
Put a Sky Cinema title on your largest screen and judge the picture while the opening credits roll. Then open one of the on-demand catalogues and sample a box set.
Free trial
Watch the trailer before you buy the feature. A whole day on the real lineup, with the same channels, films and sport the paid plans hold, and no payment details asked for up front.
The trial terms
Four plain facts, and then the day is yours.
One full day on the real lineup.
Nothing is charged, because no credit card is taken.
Your login arrives within roughly a quarter of an hour.
One trial per customer or device.
This is not a cut-down demo reel. The trial opens everything a paid plan has: 50,000+ live channels, a film-and-series library of 200,000+ titles, Sky Cinema among the live channels, the Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video catalogues listed on demand, live sport from the Premier League to darts, and pictures that climb to 8K when the title, your screen and your broadband line can carry them.
Treat the trial as a private screening in your own living room. A day gives you time to see whether the picture holds up on the largest screen you own, whether a film starts promptly on your broadband, and whether the guide feels natural under your thumb.
Three rows
Front row to back row, with nothing to pay on the way in.
Any of the trial buttons here will do. The form asks where to send your login details, and it never asks for a credit card.
A welcome email brings the server address, username and password, usually inside a quarter of an hour.
Choose the screen nearest the sofa on the install page, work through its numbered steps, and press play on a film.
Now showing
A day goes fast, so write the day a short running order.
Opening feature
Put a Sky Cinema title on your largest screen and judge the picture while the opening credits roll. Then open one of the on-demand catalogues and sample a box set.
Live reel
Move to a match, a snooker frame or the evening news. Notice how fast channels change under your remote, and how the guide lays out the current programme and the next.
Your own room
Try the television, then the tablet in the kitchen. You will know which screens suit your household long before a plan is chosen.
At the 24-hour mark the credits roll and access closes by itself. Nothing renews and nothing is charged.
Questions
The things people ask before they press the button.
One day: 24 hours. When it is over, access simply ends. Nothing renews and nothing is charged, so there is no deadline to remember.
No. The trial never asks for a credit card. The checkout only wants the email address your login details should be sent to.
Everything a paid plan has: 50,000+ live channels, a library of 200,000+ titles of film and series, Sky Cinema among the live channels, the big streaming catalogues listed on demand, live sport, and pictures that reach 8K where your screen and connection allow.
By email, usually inside a quarter of an hour. The message holds your login (server address, username, password) and, for a MAG box, the portal URL as well.
Yes. Each customer gets one trial, and each device gets one too. To carry on after your day, choose a plan.
Access stops by itself once the 24 hours are up. You are not billed and nothing carries on in the background. To keep watching, pick any of the four plans, each a single payment that never renews.
The same ones as a paid plan: Samsung and LG smart TVs, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV and Google TV, phones, tablets, Windows, Mac and MAG boxes. The install page names the app and the steps for each.
Ready when you are
Every plan holds the same full lineup, and each is a single payment with no renewal. Only the length changes.
Not quite yet? The trial is still there, and the legal page sets out the refund wording if you would like to read it first.