If you're a light user of SKY TV like I am.
Who only really watches all the stuff you can mostly get for free anyway, check out whether the main channels you watch are on 'Freesat from SKY' (you can see a complete list on their website). If so, cancel your £20+ per month account and spend it on coke and kittens.

Once it's cancelled tell them you want it converting into a 'Freesat from SKY' service. Within minutes they will reprogram your viewing card and you'll be enjoying all the Freesat channels and a pile more that SKY air themselves.

Yea there are a few TV series we miss but I usually get them from the newsgroups a few days later. It's surprising what tripe people feel worthy of uploading onto the alt.binaries.tv group.

If you find you're desperately missing all the re-runs of Top Gear on Dave and shitty american sitcoms on SKY 1 SKY will occasionally spam you with 1/2 price offers (and better).
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 12:13, 6 replies)

I've got to look at this
we spend £60/month on Virgin TV + Internet. It can't possibly be worth the money.
(username failed moderation, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 12:26, closed)

A tv subscription is slightly worse value
than setting fire to piles of money.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 12:44, closed)

Dave
is freeview anyway, and sky 1 is shit.
(MayorBoris, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 12:38, closed)

It is.
But it's not on Freesat from Sky.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 12:46, closed)

alt.binaries.hdtv
alt.binaries.multimedia
etc.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 17:41, closed)

you don't even need to ask them
as soon as they cancel your subscription, your card automatically becomes a freesat card.
(bblgoose, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 11:21, closed)