Sky TV player being reintroduced to UK now

News - Roll-out of television service ongoing

It was supposed to launch last Wednesday but technical issues caused by intense interest in the service forced Sky and Microsoft to re-introduce the television service gradually, a process that is still ongoing.

The Sky Player was pulled altogether directly after launching but it seems Microsoft are gradually ironing out the creases on Xbox Live, by opening up access to a "tens of thousands" of users on a day-to-day basis.

"As you may know, we have been experiencing some technical issues with the Sky Player on Xbox 360 since launch last Tuesday morning. It is important to both Sky and Xbox that we give customers as much information as possible about why the service is not working and when we expect this to be resolved," the Xbox forums have been told.

"As we said last week, some customers have been unable to experience full use of the service due to the initial demand for the service at launch, when so many people tried to access the service all at the same time.

"Right now we are implementing a revised rollout which will see Sky Player become available to all Xbox 360 customers gradually. While unfortunately some customers do not have access to the service, tens of thousands more will be added each day, until the service is available to all."