2) Good question. We have Sky because it's a good package and I have to have it for family entertainment.
We've got quite a decent package so that anyone can watch... all the entertainment channels, sports, cartoons for the kids, history & documentaries for the boring old fart (me!) and movies - why am I paying for movies? I don't know. We always like to go to the cinema for that! [note - must look into this...]
Man! Did you see Mission Impossible 3? If ever there was a movie made for the cinema - that was it! It does NOT come across the same way on TV.
...but I digress.
Sky "for the family".
The cable is because I get (work) telephone and (work) internet paid for by 'work' and we get a basic tv package for free, so for an extra few bob I can get TV in the boys room for not too much more.