Para - we are not trying to avoid having our own cable subscription. Gawd knows we pay top rate for that already.
There are just certain individual programmes that we really miss since moving to the USA and can catch them by shifting the programmes over sktbox and the internet.
One of the problems is disc space, any programme we haven't watched yet is taking up room on the owners DVR. The other problem is that a live video stream loses quite a lot of signal strength, I would rather transfer the file and run it (clean) locally - but likewise still have no problem in running the media in real time and re-recording it at this end.