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Originally Posted by zing
yeah but a lot of people have been saving £30 a month for a number of years so £100 outlay 2 years saving £30 a month = £720 - the £50 for modding it to freesat = £570 in pocket
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It's debatable whether they have really been 'saving' £30 per month. Many of the cable TV thieves wouldn't have paid for the extra channels anyway, if they hadn't been able to get them for nothing they wouldn't have subscribed to get them for a payment. That is the very same self-serving argument many of them used to justify their fraud - that VM was actually benefiting, because they were getting a basic sub rather than no sub at all.
I suspect the thought that they have 'saved' a few hundred quid will be cold comfort to the fraudsters and the thought of paying out £100 to mod their box to make it work with DVB-T or -S will cause a nice big lump to stick in their throats.