Yes I have seen lots of posts on this forum from ex Sky+ subscribers who say once they stopped their subscription they could not record or watch their recordings, but after moaning to Sky about it, they have been offered the option to pay £10 per month.

Whilst using an old Sky box with a Sky card for Freesat gives you the benifit of being able to watch the scrambled FTA channels, having to pay £120 a year to record them is a bit of a micky take by Sky I think and is typical of them.

It's not a micky take if you got the box off them for free, BUT, see that a big but, it's downright robbery if you paid full whack for the box and are then expected to shell out £120 a year to get any reasonable level of use out of it when you've decided subscribing is no longer for you.

I've just used Virgin to get the Sports back for a few months. If Sky didn't insist on forcing you to pay for a shitload of crap to get sports I may well have never left them.

If you got your box from Sky, free or paid for, and you have fulfilled your 12 month contract I think it is a micky take that you can't record if you stop your subscription, if you bought it for £20 at a bootfair then maybe that may be different but still debatable. My sister was forced to pay £99.99 for her Sky+ box about 12 or so months ago when she upgraded from normal Sky. Out of interest does it say in the contract that you cant record if you stop subscribing? I have never used Sky so wouldn't know.