Sky Glass Air

A 65in TV for less per month than a takeaway pizza

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The Glass Air is Sky's 'budget' TV, and it really is mind-bogglingly affordable - especially if you pay for it monthly as part of a Sky subscription premium.

It still lets you access Sky's full subscription channel packages via streaming, too, and still carries the same well-appointed Sky operating system as the Sky Glass 2. So what's the catch? As you might expect of a TV created by Sky specifically to host its subscription broadcasting platform, the price is more complicated than usual. While you can buy the 48-, 55- or 65in versions of the Glass Air for a simple upfront price, you can also buy them on a monthly subscription basis. In both cases, though, the pricing really is remarkably low. You can get these prices only if you also take on a Sky TV streaming subscription (from £15 per month). So, while the TV itself really is remarkably affordable, the all-in monthly cost, depending on the specifics of your TV subscription, can still be quite high.

The Sky Glass Air's bezel is reasonably narrow and enjoys a tasteful matte, almost powdered-effect, finish, and its screen sits stylishly low down on an unusually wide desktop base. All three available sizes come in three colours - Carbon Grey, Cotton White or Sea Green - which really does help to further disguise how affordable these TVs are. Sky's distinctive remote is tastefully finished in the same colour as the screen it partners.

Despite how affordable it is, the Sky Glass Air has a native 4K resolution and supports high dynamic range video. The HDR support extends beyond the HDR10 and HLG basics to Dolby Vision, too. Like the Sky Glass 2, the Air also benefits from a VA panel rather than a contrast-challenged IPS one, and a Quantum Dot colour system capable of delivering more than a billion colours. However, where the Glass 2 gets a backlighting system with local dimming, the Glass Air features only global dimming, where the entire backlight adjusts its output