Thanks, Kilburn- with a new computer and all that entailed, it was nice to get to see the highlights
With those Sky highlights, we appear to be restricted from viewing the content here in Canada. There is a workaround trick, posted here a while back (Bush Rhino?), where using a proxy server you can temporarily set a different IP address in the country from where you want to watch streaming content.
http://gizmodo.com/5713626/how-to-watch-streaming-us-programming-abroad
As far as computers go, my kid's seem to get all the new stuff - for my current requirements, I am just fine using a Dell 8300 desktop, running XP, that is now 13 years old, with a 500 GB HD, although I did increase the RAM from 500 MB to 4 GB.