Sorry, my bad. I've edited it now.
Yes there's loads of free channels on sat that you can't get on cable.
I'm dreading cable going the same way as sat because the Vu+ Uno 4K only has a cable tuner, no terrestrial!
Channels 1 - 5 only in SD... It doesn't bear thinking about!
Sly spent millions on the new encryption to stop card sharing. I doubt virmin have the money to go down the same route. Time will tell I guess.