Skys pricey to watch - although not quite tripling in cost every two years as some would have you believe
and if you get someone decent to fit it (and not with a dish the size of a plate) then you dont get any nonsense with loss of picture except perhaps during a blizzard - which can affect freeview just as much, and Sky doesnt tend to block when some twat on a scooter with no supression on the alternator goes past as happens all the time here when Im watching the Grand Prix on t'telly !!Cable TV is the most robust in theory but over 17years of doing satellites and aerials I have only ever tended to take out cable TV systems to replace them rather than had customers go the other way, in fact we've just finished doing that for a posh block in London that have had almost no picture from Virgin since October !!! Their one and only advantage is the broadband they can offer, everything else will always be second best in quality terms as they get their feeds from dishes and aerials just like a house does - I should know, ALL Telewest customers got stuff through equipment I've worked on, as well as a large number of NTL's customers fed from their Bromley base !!
So for me a decent aerial and satellite install is hard to beat, as long as its done by a decent firm rather than Yellow page cowboys like "Aerial Systems" or heaven forbid Sky themselves !!!
J.
....I used to be average, now I reminisce !!!
