freeview subscriber channel advice pse?
 

Hi
I've just got a Freeview set top box for my son, and have discovered we
cannot get some of the channels. On further investigation it appears we need
to go out to the shops and buy yet another freeview box with a card slot and
dump the other new one so he can subscribe to UKgold and such like.

Is there another way round this issue, or is this the case??

Even the Freeview website seems far out of date, there is no mention of pay
channels, and also says we have no coverage in our area!.. How wrong they
are!

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Chris

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:51:38 -0000, "4x4forfun"
wrote:

I've just got a Freeview set top box for my son, and have discovered we
cannot get some of the channels. On further investigation it appears we need
to go out to the shops and buy yet another freeview box with a card slot and
dump the other new one so he can subscribe to UKgold and such like.

Is there another way round this issue, or is this the case??

This is the case.

Even the Freeview website seems far out of date, there is no mention of pay
channels, and also says we have no coverage in our area!.. How wrong they
are!

Top-UpTV is nothing to do with Freeview. The clue is in the name.
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4x4forfun wrote:
Hi
I've just got a Freeview set top box for my son, and have discovered we
cannot get some of the channels. On further investigation it appears we need
to go out to the shops and buy yet another freeview box with a card slot and
dump the other new one so he can subscribe to UKgold and such like.

Is there another way round this issue, or is this the case??

Even the Freeview website seems far out of date, there is no mention of pay
channels, and also says we have no coverage in our area!.. How wrong they
are!

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Chris



The pay channels have nothing to do with freeview, its a separate
service called topup tv (www.topup.tv)

"4x4forfun" wrote...
Hi
I've just got a Freeview set top box for my son, and have discovered
we cannot get some of the channels. On further investigation it
appears we need to go out to the shops and buy yet another freeview
box with a card slot and dump the other new one so he can subscribe
to UKgold and such like.

Is there another way round this issue, or is this the case??

Even the Freeview website seems far out of date, there is no mention
of pay channels, and also says we have no coverage in our area!.. How
wrong they are!

Freeview is a consortium providing a bundle of free-to-air digital
channels; the subscription channels provided by Top-up TV aren't part
of Freeview, so you won't find them on the Freeview site.

Matti

Freeview is a consortium providing a bundle of free-to-air digital
channels; the subscription channels provided by Top-up TV aren't part
of Freeview, so you won't find them on the Freeview site.

so is UK Gold etc part of freeview or not. I have to say I thought they
were, but I can't get them on my freeview setup, I get the label at the top
of the screen but nowt else

If they'd only ditch the licence fee so you could pay for what you want and
get it there wouldn't be all this confusion

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:39:18 -0000, "Oxymel of Squill"
wrote:

so is UK Gold etc part of freeview or not. I have to say I thought they
were, but I can't get them on my freeview setup, I get the label at the top
of the screen but nowt else

http://www.freeview.co.uk/whatson/index.html
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Thanks guys.

Still feel a bit cheesed that we only find out about the top up tv product
after actually buying a costly box and switching it on. If we had been
informed by either promotion, publicity or simply some info in the shop, we
could have made an informed choice from the word go!

Ah well... the hazards of the commercial world!!.. Otherwise Feeview would
have made mention on their site...Lets face it, unless you have one of these
boxes you would never know that top up tv existed!

Cheers... Chris

"4x4forfun" wrote in message
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Hi
I've just got a Freeview set top box for my son, and have discovered we
cannot get some of the channels. On further investigation it appears we
need
to go out to the shops and buy yet another freeview box with a card slot
and
dump the other new one so he can subscribe to UKgold and such like.

Is there another way round this issue, or is this the case??

Even the Freeview website seems far out of date, there is no mention of
pay
channels, and also says we have no coverage in our area!.. How wrong they
are!

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Chris

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:50:27 -0000, "4x4forfun"
wrote:

Ah well... the hazards of the commercial world!!.. Otherwise Feeview would
have made mention on their site...Lets face it, unless you have one of these
boxes you would never know that top up tv existed!

Or if you read this newsgroup.
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In message . uk,
4x4forfun wrote

Still feel a bit cheesed that we only find out about the top up tv product
after actually buying a costly box and switching it on.

£40/50 for a Freeview box - £100 for a TopUp package.

If we had been
informed by either promotion, publicity or simply some info in the shop, we
could have made an informed choice from the word go!

TopUp TV have been advertising a lot on the 'conventional' commercial
terrestrial channels!


Ah well... the hazards of the commercial world!!.. Otherwise Feeview would
have made mention on their site...

In the same way that TopUp advertises Freeview on their site :)

Lets face it, unless you have one of these
boxes you would never know that top up tv existed!

Be aware that TopUp TV only transmits the channels part time - they only
have 4 slots for 10 channels. It is not unknown for TopUp TV to switch
channels half way through programs

Many people would argue that you are missing nothing by not having
TopUpTV.
--
Alan

4x4forfun wrote:
Hi
I've just got a Freeview set top box for my son, and have discovered we
cannot get some of the channels. On further investigation it appears we need
to go out to the shops and buy yet another freeview box with a card slot and
dump the other new one so he can subscribe to UKgold and such like.
Is there another way round this issue, or is this the case??

That is the case.

Bear in mind that even if you do subscribe to TopupTV you will not get
UKgold or any of the other channels 24-hours-a-day. TopUP TV only
broadcasts a few channels at any time out of the package.

Owain

Thus spaketh 4x4forfun:
Hi
I've just got a Freeview set top box for my son, and have discovered
we cannot get some of the channels. On further investigation it
appears we need to go out to the shops and buy yet another freeview
box with a card slot and dump the other new one so he can subscribe
to UKgold and such like.
Is there another way round this issue, or is this the case??

Even the Freeview website seems far out of date, there is no mention
of pay channels, and also says we have no coverage in our area!.. How
wrong they are!

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Chris

I reality you are not missing anything, when you got the Freeview box you
would have known what channels you were getting, so the ones you can not get
you wouldn't have known about, if you had known about them and you wanted
them, you would have got a Top Up TV compatible box.

So you got yourself a box for the free channels, and that is what you receive.
There has been plenty of advertising over the months, on TV and instore for
TopUp TV, so it would have been a hard task to be uninformed on the choice.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:35:38 +0000, Owain
wrote:

4x4forfun wrote:
Hi
I've just got a Freeview set top box for my son, and have discovered we
cannot get some of the channels. On further investigation it appears we need
to go out to the shops and buy yet another freeview box with a card slot and
dump the other new one so he can subscribe to UKgold and such like.
Is there another way round this issue, or is this the case??

That is the case.

Bear in mind that even if you do subscribe to TopupTV you will not get
UKgold or any of the other channels 24-hours-a-day. TopUP TV only
broadcasts a few channels at any time out of the package.

Owain

I wasn't aware of this. Why pay 7.99 for part-time channels? Sounds
a bit, well... if you pardon my coarse language..er..****!

Marky P.

TopUp Tv widely promoted in store and for example in Argos cat near
freeview. TopUp tv isn't worth the premium.
Many retailers have a no quibble exchange policy if within 30 days, so
you may be able to upgrade

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:50:27 +0000, 4x4forfun wrote:

Thanks guys.

Still feel a bit cheesed that we only find out about the top up tv product
after actually buying a costly box

How much did you pay? Over £40 and you were ripped; if £40 is costly
then the £8 a month + £20 setup is probably beyond you.

Unless of course you did get a Top-up compatible box which is more
expensive - then go check the topup.tv website where you can signup (there
may be an online discount reducing the sign up fee).

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:51:38 -0000, "4x4forfun"
wrote:

Top-UpTV is nothing to do with Freeview. The clue is in the name.
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First in with the smart-arse answers, as usual.

Jesus there are some miserable so and so's on Usenet.

"4x4forfun" wrote in message
.co.uk...
Ah well... the hazards of the commercial world!!.. Otherwise Feeview
would
have made mention on their site...Lets face it, unless you have one of
these
boxes you would never know that top up tv existed!


TBH, I never found this to be the case. Whilst browsing for a STB I found it
quite clear that some had card readers, allowing for the Tits-Up-TV service,
whereas those without card readers never allowed this service. After
glancing in one or two shops, looking at what was available and taking note
of specs etc...this was all clearly understandable to me. Those that do use
the service stated so in the specs, those that don't never.....or even
actually stated that they were not TUTV compatible. And I too was initially
unaware of the service.

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I reality you are not missing anything, when you got the Freeview box you
would have known what channels you were getting, so the ones you can not
get
you wouldn't have known about, if you had known about them and you wanted
them, you would have got a Top Up TV compatible box.

As my Mum always says: "you can't miss what you have never had!". :)

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"{{{{{Welcome}}}}}" wrote in message
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I reality you are not missing anything, when you got the Freeview box you
would have known what channels you were getting, so the ones you can not
get
you wouldn't have known about, if you had known about them and you wanted
them, you would have got a Top Up TV compatible box.

As my Mum always says: "you can't miss what you have never had!". :)

That seems to be a fundamental principle behind Microsoft's push of
their winXP product.

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