Our Sky box recently finally died after nearly ten years of service. As an occassional TV user, and only using the Sky free-to air service (not to be confused by the new BBC Freesat service) at that, we didn't fancy the full cost of a new Sky box to get us out of our dilemma.
Freecycle came to the rescue. A quick "wanted" advert and numerous offers of redundant boxes where Sky subscribers had upgraded to Sky+ - there's obviosully lots of redundant technology sitting out there...
