I've installed quite a few boxes but I've never been paid (by Sky) so does that make me their bitch? I'm told by all the dealers I know that they are a horrible company to deal with. As for HD the picture is nice, mostly, but I gather its gradually getting worse as they slyly reduce bitrate to squeeze more 'HD' channels in?
The Thomson HD boxes started off ok but turned into pieces of failing crap that are driving me mad. Jury is still out on the new Pace HD boxes but they do seem better and Pace have a good track record. The best things about Sky are the EPG and + features - really intuative and easy to use. (RF2 output features are good also but I've never understood why the money grabbers included this function)
Hell will freeze over before I have Sky in my own home.