Our Freeview reception is much better than our Sky reception despite having the engineers out 2 or 3 times. We won't be renewing the contract when the 12 months is up.
Have just bought a sony DVD recorder with Freeview reception & HDD. It's fantastic & to answer the original question, yes you can record Sky.
This is the model we got; http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/conten...-RDRHXD560.htm
Gutted cos we paid £250 from Richer Sounds .
I've just decided I don't trust you anymore.