Top Up TV Category
August 12th, 2009 by FrequencyCast in Digital TV, Freeview, Top Up TV
As we discussed in today’s podcast update, it’s now possible to get ESPN on a Freeview box or TV that has a suitable card slot (known as a CI slot). The CI slot accepts a CAM, which accepts a subscription card.
If you were previously able to get Setanta Sports on Freeview, then you should be able to get ESPN – You’ll just need to get your old Top Up TV or Setanta subscription card activated by calling 08444 15 20 20.
If you’re looking for full details on how this works, please see the following summary of the ways to get ESPN: http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/espn.html , or listen to our 12 August update
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June 1st, 2009 by FrequencyCast in Broadband, Digital TV, Freeview, HD, Podcast, Technology, Top Up TV
Show 40 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released.
In our regular online radio show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show:
- News Updates: Plans for Freeview HD in doubt, all change for the charts, new content for Top Up, and odd news for H2G2 fans
- Focus: What’s new with wi-fi wireless technology.
- Hands-on: We plan with the world’s most sophisticated pen.
- Your questions on BT Vision, Virgin Media HD, plus your feedback on the Top Up TV failure in May.
You can download Show 40 direct to your MP3 player or listen online at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/latest.html. If you have an iPod or iPhone, get shows faster by signing up via iTunes.
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May 14th, 2009 by FrequencyCast in Digital TV, Freeview, Podcast, Top Up TV
As we’re hoping you know, FrequencyCast produces regular online radio shows (a.k.a. podcasts).
Now and then, we release special audio “updates” to cover breaking stories, and so far there’s been a bunch of stories this month already.
So, we’re just out of the studio with a 16 minute audio update looking at Quest‘s failure to launch, the Top Up TV problems that hit last week, Tiscali takeover news, plus TomTom FM.
Download our 16 minute update now from http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/latest.html
Got an iPod or iPhone? Get shows and updates first via iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=142899029
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May 5th, 2009 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
More troubles for Top Up TV users…
It seems that over the Bank Holiday weekend, something happened that affected users of a number of Thomson Top Up TV Anytime boxes.
The Thomson DTI 6300 hard-disk recorders appear to be failing to start up – showing an orange light. Attempts to reboot the boxes don’t seem to resolve the problem.
It seems that there was a problem with the EPG download on the morning of Sunday 3rd of May.
Top Up TV’s site offers some advice on the problem, but their suggested fix is to format the hard drive, losing all previously recorded programmes. This is obviously not an ideal solution.
You’ll find discussion on this problem on our sister site’s forum at http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?board=topuptv
Check out our mid-May podcast for the latest on this story (link below)
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December 14th, 2008 by FrequencyCast in Phones, Top Up TV
As part of our promise to get a new Tech podcast out each week in December – here’s this week’s show – covering a new handset release.
Carl (suffering from a bout of scurvy), sits in a studio with Pete and looks closely at the new INQ1 phone from 3, better known as The Facebook Phone.
Slick integration of Contacts, Instant Messaging and Social Networking, this is a surprisingly powerful little phone. Listen to our 9 minute audio review of this low-priced, high-spec phone.
More details on our INQ Review page.
The INQ1 is available free on a contract, or £79.95 on Pay-as-you-go at www.three.co.uk.
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July 29th, 2008 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
Top Up TV has today released a hotfix to overcome a problem affecting their Thomson Top Up TV Anytime boxes.
Their boxes have been hit by the recent Freeview transmitter updates, which created a problem for users who performed a channel rescan.
v2.93 has to be downloaded manually, via Menu > 4 > 6. Then press 1397 and scroll down to option 17 “Force next OAD”. The download should get to you within an hour
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March 31st, 2008 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
Top Up TV has updated their software from v2.88 to v2.91. This appears to be a minor release that apparently addresses a “channel scanning issue” that affects users on the Sutton Coldfield transmitter, adds an option to the Engineering menus to temporarily stop the video preview window in the library, and adds some stability fixes.
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March 13th, 2008 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
Top Up TV has started sending out a batch of new Top Up TV viewing cards to their subscribers. It’s not immediately clear from the rather condescending covering letter what the change is all about “Why a new viewing card? Well the boffins here did explain, but it’s a bit techy”
Here at FrequencyCast, we suspect the cards are to support a different encryption system, as the cards have a NAGRAVISION logo on them. To use the new card, you remove the old one, insert the new (chip down), then leave your Top Up TV Anytime box tuned to channel 5 for an hour. We’ll cover this in the next show, due out in April 08
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January 25th, 2008 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
Top Up TV has released an updated version of their Top Up TV Anytime box. The Thomson DTI6300-25 comes with a 250Gig driver (versus the original 160gig version), and can hold up to 180 hours of Freeview programmes, plus the small amount of content that’s automatically downloaded overnight.
The new box costs £129.99 (£30 up on the previous version, which is still available). More on our TUTV Anytime page.
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November 25th, 2007 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
Some changes to Top Up Tv Anytime, the service that provides extra content on a special set-top box. Broadcasting hours for UKTV Gold on the TopUp TV service have dropped (again), this time to make way for some new content. Boxes will now be able to get programming from The History Channel, the Crime & Investigation Channel and the Sci-Fi channel – but you have to go Menu > Customise to get this new content.
We reviewed Top Up TV in Show 10 – See http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/topuptvanytime.html for more.
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November 8th, 2007 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
A new version of Top Up TV Anytime software began being rolled out on 8th November 2007. This reportedly offers: EPG & VOD Search, an expanded Synopsis window, stability improvements to Series link and VOD downloads, and some other user interface changes. Updates should be received on your Anytime box automatically.
www.frequencycast.co.uk/topuptvanytime.html
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August 19th, 2007 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
Top Up TV has dropped the price of its Anytime box to £99.99 (saving £40). Not a bad price for a dual-tuner Freeview hard-disk recorder. You’ll need to pay £10 a month to get access to up to 100 hours of non-Freeview content that that’s captured overnight. See our Top Up TV Anytime page.
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July 5th, 2007 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
Another over-the-air patch for the Top Up TV Anytime box has just been rolled out. This adds Subtitles, has some user interface improvements, and also has some stability fixes.
v2.81 is being pushed over-the-air from 4th July
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March 14th, 2007 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
Top Up TV has just released another patch for their Anytime box, which we reviewed in Show 10. V2.44 adds Series Link and parental control. The fix reportedly addresses the issues raised in the BBC Watchdog show – such as failed recordings, black screen and playback skip.
New Features: Series Link, Child Lock and display of programme synopsis information in the guide screen.
Fixes: Fix to Saved Items being deleted, Fix to Radio Services breaking up. Fixes been added to reduce the number of times that a DTR fails to make Top Up TV Anytime recordings. Improvements to Download Playback. Performance improvements to reduce the times when the box will need to be rebooted. Fixes to reduce loss of Video/Black Screen. Library now shows the actual start and duration.
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January 29th, 2007 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
It looks like Top Up TV is reducing their £7.99 non-Anytime service even further with the Discovery channels and Cartoon Network disappearing from the live line-up in February. This puts the live content to:
UKTV Gold (4pm – 1am)
UKTV Style (1pm – 4pm)
British Eurosport (7.30am – 10am)
TCM (7pm – 1am)
It’s rumoured that this is to make room for subscription sport channel Setanta. TUTV has also stopped selling the basic £7.99 service to new customers, making Top Up TV Anytime their only product.
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December 23rd, 2006 by FrequencyCast in Top Up TV
The FrequencyCast team now have their hands on a Top Up TV Anyime set-top box, and are in the process of reviewing the box for Show 10. You can see the team’s initial review here.
We would like to get your questions on Anytime, so we can include them in the next FrequencyCast show. Please use the Comments section here to ask your questions…
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