Sky+ is costing me too much money. I'm paying £42.50 a month (or some similarly moronic amount of money) for all the movie channels, all the sports channels, and everything else. What do I actually watch? The BBC and ITV channels, and my son watches Playhouse Disney. Having started weening him off Disney in favour of Cbeebies, I don't think he's going to be bothered. Plus, he's 8 months old – how fussy can he be?
So, here's the plan – ditch Sky+, build Windows Media Center Edition PC, sit MCE PC in front room next to TV, enjoy.
I originally thought I'd have all sorts of aerial installation fun ahead of me, but it turns out I can get Freeview with my existing aerial afterall (just plug the cable into the right port on the back of the TV, Dan). So, all that remains is to purchase the components for the MCE machine (tv card, video card with tv-out, larger hard drive, remote control) and build it.
I will document my trials and tribulations here.
