I can't believe in a discussion like this that the idea of a steerable dish hasn't come up.

Surely there are free to air things to be seen in the US.
Crikey, even down here in the Pacific area there are a great lot of "birds" floating above the earth that you can get a decent signal off.

I have a 8ft dish in our garden with 4 LNB's and a motor unit on it, it took a bit of working out, but we can get an amazing number of channels.
It was more or less for the missus, I hardly ever watch the tripe on TV.