Telewest was great - Virgin Media Sucks

After almost a month of trying to get my old Telewest account moved 100 yards down the road to my new flat, I have finally given up.

After going 3 weeks without a phone/internet connection (and obviously no cable TV), I was forced to get BT to install BT Broadband, which they were stars about, and did amazingly quickly. Now, after having virtually no response from Virgin Media, and being short on cash, I've decided to stuff it, and ring up and cancel my subscription with them, as they have been so incredibly crap at sorting things out for me, in what should have been such an easy change.

Instead, I am seriously considering getting a recordable Freeview box, and just downloading any extra stuff that I want to watch (like Heroes, Grey's Anatomy and Smallville), off of Bit Torrent and Youtube. It'll save me £80 - 91 a month, and that's money I seriously need right now...

Now just to find a decent dual tuner recordable freeview box that has a decent epg that will let me record whole series of things at the click of a button, and possible download those recordings onto my laptop so that I can make some music videos... I'll be ordering it on LX Direct though, as I can't afford to buy it outright at this stage...

Hmmm...wonder what I'll choose... Topfield comes to mind, but it's not on LX Direct, thus not affordable... Of to do some research...