Bye Bye Sky
After many years, we're turning off our Sky connections. We pay them ~$100 a month and really, for what? The box that allows us to play/record/rewind TV is handy, but we've replaced that with a box that can do the same with the public free TV service. Yesterday had had two guys (Rob&Roy) turn up and put up a UHF Antenna for us, so that we can get Freeview. They had to fiddle around a bit to get it working, apparently the cables in the house are old and clunky and don't work that well. But now we have a UHF amp and two TV's that can get digital reception just fine. The box cost us $500 to play/record TV. But that'll pay for itself in 6 months of not having Sky.
The only issue of course is when it comes time to watch the sports, how are we going to do that. Sky offer an online service for a cheaper price, so we might still have to end up giving the bastards some money to watch the cricket etc.