2006-08-04 04:02:07 · 10 answers · asked by ? 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
never heard of them.... I don't watch TV.
2006-08-04 04:04:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Top Up TV is a pay television service that operates in the UK on the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform alongside the Freeview service. It was launched on March 31, 2004 by two former BSkyB executives, David Chance and Ian West, the first pay television on the platform since the collapse of ITV Digital in 2002 which had been thought to be the end of pay television services on the platform. Top Up TV is available through new DTT receivers with card slots, integrated digital television sets with a CAM or legacy boxes from ONdigital/ITV Digital.
The service offers a variety of basic pay channels, rather than the premium sports and movie channels that were offered by ITV Digital. Examples of programming include repeats of British television classics such as Only Fools and Horses and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet on UKTV Gold, documentaries from Discovery, cartoons made by Time Warner, and live sport events on British Eurosport. Eleven channels are available on the service but these are timeshared, such that a maximum of five are on air at any given time. Overnight this drops to as few as two channels (from the main package), in order to make space for premium adult entertainment channels.
From Autumn 2006 a new service, Top Up TV Anytime will launch. This enables the viewer to watch a host of programming from new and existing channels once its downloaded on to a special "Personal Video Recorder". The programming is expected to come from existing channel providers as well as new ones. Top Up TV is expected to release detals soon. As five are taking some streams to launch additional channels there is also expected changes to the existing line-up.
2006-08-04 04:36:08 · answer #2 · answered by Booster Gold 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends what you want to know, you get freeview and then top up is when you pay a certain amount of money per month to get some extra channels like Sky One which is about the only really good one now that most have switched to freeview anyway, if you're going to do top up you may as well get Sky and the whole package as its not much more more expensive and a much better service!
2006-08-04 12:33:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really worth it - only some crummy ukgold type channels & bloomberg
Discovery is about the only decent thing now that film4 has gone onto freeview
2006-08-04 04:20:10 · answer #4 · answered by BlahDeBlah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pay to view the scrambled channel
a card is put in a slot on the freeview box
2006-08-07 05:34:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you by a compatible digibox... one with a slot in it.. and buy a top-up starter pack... £27... then £7.50 per month after that.. you get better channels.. such as tcm, uk gold etc.... also film4 is available now on all freeview boxes.. topped up or not....
2006-08-04 04:07:16 · answer #6 · answered by paulrb8 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you buy the card stick it the slot and off you go. its also crap and not worth the money
2006-08-04 04:04:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
news to me
2006-08-04 23:09:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What the F**K you talking bout.
2006-08-04 04:09:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, what is the problem?
2006-08-04 04:04:56 · answer #10 · answered by Steveh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋