If you're put off getting Sky+ by the price tag (£10 per month, plus the price of a basic subscription, or a subscription with at least one premiumn channel package), then Top Up TV's latest offering might be the one for you.Top Up TV Anytime bills itself as a DTR (a Digital Television Recorder) with features like pause, rewind and being able to record two programmes at the same time. Effectively, it's a Freeview PVR, but with access to lots more channels.
It also offers a TV on-demand service, with access to over 100 hours of programming each week. The box itself can hold up to 120 hours of SD video on its 160GB HDD.
It's currently priced at £9.99 per month, with movies £5 per month extra - but the box itself will also cost you a one-off fee, but there's no price confirmed yet for that.
1. According to http://www.topup.tv/newcustomer/box.html
the box will cost £180.
Add that to £9 a month and it really expensive. Doesn't say if you can get just the box and use it as a PVR from basic FreeView. That would better for me at least.
Posted at 6:52AM on Nov 3rd 2006 by Mike Krus