The Sky comes crashing down?

We've been paying £20.00 a month for goodness knows how long for our Sky TV subscription. T^his is all well and good but over the past few months we've been monitoring just how often we switch the Sky box on and well, it ain't a lot!

Since we upgraded our Freeview to our all singing, all dancing HDR / DVD recorder / HDMI connection box thingy, we've had a superior picture quality and a greater flexibility in recording programmes we want to watch when we want or even record to DVD. You can get Sky+ but this is at a cost... We currently get all we need for a one off payment and no subscription.

But what about HDTV? Well, with the new Freesat starting to filter out, we figured that if we want to benefit from those glorious pictures, we can again make a single payment for a box and bob's your uncle (fanny's your aunt) we'll be up and running (Sky don't remove the satellite dish from the house, that's ours to keep so we can get the Freesat signal through that - I think!)



We've been with Sky for five years or so... I'd hoped they might be able to make us a tempting offer to stay, especially as I imagine they're bombarded with leavers in the current Virgin Media / Freeview / Freesat market but they couldn't offer a deal that made it cost effective to stay with them so from 1st August 2008, we'll be Sky free... (And saving a bit of electricity in not having another electronic device on standby!)

I'll miss the nice ergonomic controller though!



So, what shall we do with the £240 we save in the first year...? I say Bombay Sapphire! Hehe! Jxx