Top Up TV complete package £49.99, inc one month free

ought wrote:

Sounds promising.. but is this model a goodun?

No - there is very little decent Top Up TV hardware out there. Though this box is especially bad

Stick with the Freeview PVR from Aldi - you need 2 tuners and Ferguson boxes generally suck.

A lot of people never get to see the free month of subscription from Top Up TV either, and calls to customer services cost 10p per minute :mad:

On top of that you don't even get the advertised channels in full either - they only own four and a half slots so can never manage to actually show more than 5 channels at once at the best of times.

dc wrote:

ilikepoints,
Disagree re box as a lot of people like it, plenty reviews. Apparently it's won What Satellite and Digital TV's Best Freeview Adapter 2005 award and it got a 5 star review in Home cinema choice magazine.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds15960.html


and there will be fights at Aldi
Most problems with ALL boxes are really poor signal problems.

Agree with you re TUTV value tho. But some ppl like it, as they do Sky :xmassign:

Sorry i didn't make my post clear - the box is decent enough in terms of usablity, interface, picture quality etc. The issue is the fact that a lot of them are unreliable and freeze a lot - check at the reviews at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006GAS8W/qid=1134002868/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_19_10/203-0089338-1533534