Should I resubscribe to sky for a year to get new dish and box

Berberis

Hi Folk's I currently have an 8 yr old sky box and dish.
I cancelled subscriptions a number of years ago and have since used a UK freesat card, and use an arieal in the attic for rte, tv3 and tg4.
I was thinking of putting sky in the kitchen and was wondering would it be better to:

1. Resubscribe to sky for a year (under wifes name as new customer) so I will get new dish and sky box and connect an extra cable from the new dish to the old box (if going this route I intend to take old dish down and remove current box until new dish and box is installed)
OR
2. Buy a 2nd sky box (if so where would people suggest) and buy a quad lnb (I think its called and then just connect the 2nd box to that and watch the free channels.
What do people think, going down option 1 I get a new dish and box for €306 (€23 a month plus €30 installation fee)
or would option 2 be much cheaper

gan23

You should be able to pick up a sky dish with quad lnb for about €40 from a satellite shop or Power City for €50, and SaorTv are selling a standard definition Freesat receiver for €72.
http://www.saortv.com/shop/Digital-TV-Receivers/Freesat/Grundig-GUFSAT02SD-freesat-SD-Digital-Receiver/prod_49.html

Or you could pick up a second hand sky box from ebay, usually around €30-40