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About a week after moving into my current place I had Sky fitted and haven't used the chimney mounted terrestrial aerial since. This morning I had that aerial which was pointing at the Hannington transmitter swapped out for a larger higher gain aerial pointing at the more powerful Crystal Palace transmitter. The reason for doing this is that I've been looking at ways to have TV in more places around the house and have come to the conclusion that the most straightforward, cheapest way of piping good quality TV around the house is to have a Freeview box connected to each TV. There are some really good open source solutions around like MythTV but going down this road means you have to have a PC connected to each TV. But a Freeview box just works! If it has a paddy, turn it off and back on again and it'll work! Much easier, quieter, cooler and a heck of a lot cheaper!!

At the moment the aerial box is terminating in the attic where I've got a 4 way distribution amp. The next step is to run the coax down into the bedrooms and put a proper aerial point in the kitchen, probably fronted with 'decombiner' sockets so that I can put the UHF, FM and DAB signals down the same piece of coax.

Been looking at Freeview boxes too. There are five options.

1. Cheap Freeview boxes like the Tesco Value one at about £25.
2. More expensive boxes like the Humax and Thompson boxes that are reputed to have better quality tuners which are recommended for the area where I live (about £60).
3. Get a 'PVR' type Freeview box that has two tuners and a harddrive inside to create a Sky+ type experience. The boxes are about £200 and the people I know who have them reckon they are great.
4. Get a TopUpTV PVR. 200 quid like the option above but with the added expense of a £9.99 monthly subscription fee to have a few more channels.
5. Get new tellies with DVB tuners built in. My housemate says that his DVB picture is awesome through the built-in tuner in his plasma.

Apologies for the lack of links :)

Finally managed to register for Sky Remote Record today. It allows me to view the Sky Planner on my phone and set things to record on my Sky+ box.

Got an email off Sky.. and I know it's overlapping onto the stuff on the right on small screens :) It's been coded fixed width and I'm not going to change that!

Thank you for registering for Sky HD. As one of our registrants we promised to give you the opportunity to be amongst the first to get Sky HD. Now the wait is almost over. Due to the unprecedented interest in Sky HD we are offering you the chance to pre-order Sky HD now.

You'll need to pay a £30 deposit either online or in your local Comet store. Then during early April, before we open the lines to the general public, we will call you to complete your Sky HD order and arrange your installation. Sky HD pre-order is being offered on a first come, first served basis. Installations are scheduled to start from May.

The table below explains how much you will pay for Sky HD provided you take a Sky digital and Sky HD subscription.

*Sky One HD, Artsworld HD, National Geographic HD, Discovery HD and Sky Box Office HD will be available to all Sky HD subscribers. To get Sky Sports HD you will need Sky Sports 1 & 2 in your package. To get Sky Movies 9 HD you will also need Sky Movies 1 in your package and for Sky Movies 10 HD you'll need Sky Movies 2.