Hi,
A friend of mine has no contract with sky but she just had to pay €250 for the box and she has all the free to air channels! I'm not sure if she originally had a contract with sky or how she got the box but it seems legit! The free to air channels are BBC 1,2,3 and 4, UTV 1,2,3 and 4, Sky News, and BBC news, those are the main channels, there are also lots of reality channels, true life movie channels and the like. No sport channels, no discovery and a few music channels.