If you do buy a sky+ box, you will also need a twin LNB which will have to be installed on your dish. Not beyond the competence of the average diyer provided your dish isn't on the roof. You will also require cable as a second cable is required for the second tuner in the digibox. Finally if you are not subscribed with sky and still want to use sky+, they will charge you £10 per month for the privilage of recording.

Go for freesat, you can get twin tuner recorders for them, sky is overrated, for the most part you are paying for channels you do not even watch because of the way their packages are bundled.

Even if they wont let you cancel, they cannot stop you downgrading to the bare minimum package until your contract is up. The broadband is free even with their smallest package, given they have no fair usage policy, so it's truly unlimited downloads, it's still not bad value.

cheer's

1. Get a clear end of commitment date and cancel Sky when you reach that. You won't have SKy, but at least you won;t be paying for it, and you can shop around for broadband.

2. Get on ebay and buy a new sky+ box - they don't cost much more than having an engineer come out...

please help my sky is broken wont come off standby tried all advice on sky website ,! and as we have been out of contract 4 years but had new box replaced 2 years ago after alot of complaining they are refusing to let us cancel what can we do we don't want 2 fork out 4 engineers costs 65.00 and are quite happy with the service although wouldnt mind getting free sky + we also have our phone through sky but also on a bt landline Many Thanks Nichola