[Mort]

Don't forget that you'll need two lnb feeds to use both tuners in the foxsat-hdr. If you haven't had a sky+ box you'll probably only have a single LNB on the dish, and would need to replace it and get an extra cable run. If your terrestrial tv aerial points through trees you might find that even upgrading the aerial gives you problems particularly in wet weather when the leaves are on the trees, so the satellite route might be 'safer'.

You should be able to use an old sky box to receive free satellite channels without a sky subscription, although you may need a freesat viewing card to access some of them. You have to pay Sky to enable the Sky+ recording feature though.

HTH