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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

All the best to you with this. I'll be honest, when I do eventually get my own house, I am probably not going to get Sky, and instead just do what you have done. Realistically, besides the odd watch of a film during channel surfing, I doubt I will miss any of the channels that I get with Sky at home. Streaming services aren't perfect, but I do have a lot of movies backed up on a server, I have a netflix account, I've looked into getting Prime too, and I think I'd be OK with just that. The only reason we're still on Sky is because of Formula One basically being Sky exclusive (I know it isn't, but watching the races is hard to do otherwise), though with Paramount+ becoming a global partner, we may very well give up Sky in the next 5-10 years.

If I were you, you should do a follow up in a couple of weeks and let us know how you're getting on. I'd certainly be interested