FreeView
Once you have bought your FreeView digital box or digital TV recorder, there is no contract to sign and no monthly fees to pay. It changes your television from having the traditional four analogue channels (BB1, BB2, ITV and C4) into more than 60 channels with more being added every month.
FreeView boxes are available at most stores in the high street but those looking for an even cheaper bargain should look online. Just do your homework first and ask yourself what type of box do you need? With a hard drive to record on or not? If so, how much space?
What's more, if that is not enough, you can buy some more programs to watch with TopUp TV. For a small monthly fee of £9.99 you get up to 600 extra programs downloaded to your Top Up TV+ DTR every month.
A bonus is that you are not stuck in a binding contract for a year, if it is not what you want then you can cancel giving just seven days notice.
If you want to add some sports, Setanta offer a FreeView package to add Setanta Sports 1 to your FreeView box for a monthly fee and a one off connection fee.