In homes where men cannot relinquish the remote control (ie. every home with a man in it!), you might end up having a remote control war on your hands. But worse than being at the whim of a man’s viewing dictatorship, is having no remote at all. Whether it’s been worn out from constant zapping, or simply just been broken through your children messing about, just imagine what you would do if your Sky remote was broken! Could you go back to just the 90-odd Freeview channels after having hundreds with Sky? What about all your hours of TV recorded on the Sky Plus? Do you even have Freeview or a digital TV? If not, and your region has already switched over, then you’ll be stuck with no TV at all, apart from the channel your box switches on to. Not only that, but the only way you’ll be able to set new programmes to record is by using Sky’s Remote Record service, but then of course, you won’t be able to watch any of it.
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