I think Freeview is better too.
I had a Humax for a while and compared it to Sky and would say that the pictures were a little sharper and looked a liitle more solid and 3 dimensional on Freeview than they did on Sky. This was viewing them on a 37'" Mitsubishi CRT both through RGB. I never tried the Freeview box on my projector as it had a fault and went back before I had an opportunity to do so. Waiting (snore ) for the Panasonic Freeview PVR to come out and I intend to try that, should it ever appear, back to back with Sky on my projector as this is an interesting question as I don't think that the picture on Sky is quite good enough to be satisfactory when projected. I would like to know how the bit rates on Sky and freeview compare if anyone knows.