[Parsons]

Well, yesterday was the day.... after almost a quarter of a century (I was a very early Sky Digital adopter back in the late 1990s!)... SkyQ is gone and my new FreeSat box is in.

First impressions, positive - I was expecting the FreeSat box to be slow and clunky like the old Sky Digiboxes, but it's actually surprisingly smooth, I don't mind the EPG or menu system, the only thing I'm really missing (other than All4 and Disney+) is the SkyQ remote let you program both your TV and soundbar, so I can't control the volume on my soundbar with the remote, minor annoyance though.

Other than that, happy, will save me about £400 per year and the freesat box will pay for itself in 6 months. I ended up buying from RicherSounds, for an extra £25 I got a 6 year warranty which is apparently refunded if I don't use it, so, if I keep the box that long it works out at the price of a coffee per month.

It will be interesting to see what churn Sky are getting at the moment, when I called up to cancel mine (it was supposed to cancel on the 11th April, but somehow, somebody cancelled the cancel and I got billed £52 but they cancelled it overnight and should refund me), the agent I spoke to alluded to the fact that he'd had a horrible day with people calling up about the price rises.

What also found amusing is I got a flyer pushed through my door from Sky Mobile yesterday boasting about 'no mid contract price rises' when they are one of the worst culprits lol