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Encyclopedia > Top Up TV Anytime
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Top Up TV. (Discuss)

Top Up TV Anytime is a video on demand service broadcast in the United Kingdom on digital terrestrial television. Selected programmes for the service will be broadcast overnight on multiplex A and are stored on the hard disk of a digital video recorder (DVR) [1], ready to be played back on demand. Image File history File links Topuptv_britishtvservice. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Video on demand (VOD) systems allow users to select and watch video content over a network as part of an interactive television system. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Digital television. ... A multiplex is a group of digital TV channels that are mixed together for broadcast. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... A digital video recorder (DVR) (or Personal video recorder (PVR)) is a device that records video without videotape to a hard drive-based digital storage medium. ...

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Overview

Whats On

The Top Up TV Anytime service offers a small number of basic pay channels, including live sport events on British Eurosport as well as selected shows downloaded to the PVR will include content from MTV, Hallmark Channel, Nickelodeon, Living TV, Paramount Comedy 1 & several Discovery on demand content channels including, Animal Planet.. Image File history File links MTV_Logo. ... Image File history File links Hallmark_Channel. ... Eurosport is the largest European sports satellite and cable network available in 54 countries and broadcasting in 18 different languages. ... MTV (Music Television) is a cable television network headquartered in New York City. ... The Hallmark Channel is a cable television network that broadcasts in over 100 countries. ... Nickelodeon may refer to: Nickelodeon (TV channel), a cable TV network primarily for children and pre-teens in the United States Nickelodeon Australia Nickelodeon Asia Nickelodeon Latin America a subsidiary of MTV Networks Nickelodeon Scandinavia Nickelodeon Magazine, published by the Nickelodeon (TV Channel) Nickelodeon UK, a satellite/cable TV station... LIVINGtv is a British television channel owned by Flextech. ... It has been suggested that Paramount Comedy 2 be merged into this article or section. ... See also Discovery Channel Discovery Communications Inc. ... Animal Planet, launched in 1996, is a cable and satellite television network co-owned 80% by Discovery Communications, Inc. ...


Equipment

As the Five broadcasting company are taking two of Top Up TV's live daytime and evening channel streams to launch Five US and Five Life in the middle of October 2006. This will leave Top Up TV with only two live daytime channel streams for their timeshared service. As a result, Bloomberg and Toonami will close and UKTV Gold and TCM have already had their hours reduced. Five, formerly known as Channel 5, is the United Kingdoms fifth national analogue terrestrial TV channel. ... Five US will be a free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by Five. ... Five Life will be a free-to-air television channel in the United Kingdom owned by Five. ... Bloomberg L.P. is a Financial Media Company founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1982. ... Toonami (a portmanteau of cartoon and the Japanese word tsunami suggesting a tidal wave of animated cartoons) is a registered trademark of Cartoon Network, used initially for action-oriented programming blocks on Cartoon Network television channels worldwide, mostly shows American and Japanese cartoons, originating in the United States in 1997. ... UKTV Gold, known as UK Gold until March 8, 2004, is a British television channel, launched on November 1, 1992, currently available on Sky satellite, cable, and terrestrial subscription via Top Up TV. It is not available on standard Freeview boxes, however, despite the fact that many of its programmes... TCM may mean: Traditional Chinese Medicine Turner Classic Movies, a cable TV channel owned by Time Warner which features classic MGM and Warner Brothers films. ...


Top Up TV Anytime will enable the viewer to watch a host of programming from new and existing channels once downloaded onto a special digital video recorder (DVR) with an inital charge of £180 for the DVR. Existing set-top boxes with conditional access module slots and PVRs will not be compatible. A digital video recorder (DVR) (or Personal video recorder (PVR)) is a device that records video without videotape to a hard drive-based digital storage medium. ... A Conditional Access Module (CAM) is an electronic device, usually incorporating a slot for a smart card, which equips a DVB television or set-top box with the appropriate hardware facility to decrypt scrambled programmes. ...


Pricing

  • The Main Package. The programming will come from existing channel providers as well as new ones. The new service will cost £9.99 a month, with an inital charge of £180 for the DVR and a £20 connection fee.

Additionally Top Up TV offered adult material.

  • From Television X for £9.99/month in addition to Top Up TV subscription. Unlike the main package Television X carried a minimum 12 month subscription.
  • Red Hot TV and Television X provides pay-per-night (PPN) adult material for at £5.99 per night. Red Hot is the only channel that is not credited as being provided by Top Up TV. However, all facilities that allow this channel to broadcast on DTT are provided by Top Up TV. (It is not known if these channels will continue at this time).

Pay-Per-View Football Television X is an adult television channel owned by Richard Desmond. ... Red Hot TV is a set of 8 British adult television channels. ... Television X is an adult television channel owned by Richard Desmond. ...

  • PPV Scottish Premier League matches provided by Setanta Sports are offered at £8 per match (£10 for Rangers vs. Celtic). (It is not known if this channel will continue at this time, though there space is rented from CITV).

Setanta Sports is an Irish TV sports channel. ... CITV Logo This article is about CITV, ITVs childrens television brand. ...

Channels Till October 2006

On air time in brackets. Information as of September 2006. Channels marked # require an additional subscription or are pay-per-view. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pay-per-view is the name given to a system by which television viewers can call and order events to be seen on TV and pay for the private telecast of that event to their homes later. ...

Also: UKTV Gold, known as UK Gold until March 8, 2004, is a British television channel, launched on November 1, 1992, currently available on Sky satellite, cable, and terrestrial subscription via Top Up TV. It is not available on standard Freeview boxes, however, despite the fact that many of its programmes... Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a cable television channel featuring commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. ... UK Style was launched on 1st November 1997. ... Discovery Channel is a property of Discovery Communications primarily packaged as a network entertainment brand distributed in virtually every pay-television market in the world. ... Discovery Real Time is a male oriented factual television channel produced by Discovery Networks Europe. ... UK Food was launched on 5th November 2001. ... Eurosport is the largest European sports satellite and cable network available in 54 countries and broadcasting in 18 different languages. ... Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. ... Boomerang is a television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, launched on 27 May 2000. ... Toonami (a portmanteau of cartoon and the Japanese word tsunami suggesting a tidal wave of animated cartoons) is a registered trademark of Cartoon Network, used initially for action-oriented programming blocks on Cartoon Network television channels worldwide, mostly shows American and Japanese cartoons, originating in the United States in 1997. ... Bloomberg Television is a cable television network that broadcasts business and financial news 24 hours a day, owned by Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg Television is headquartered in New York City, home of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. It is widely known for its unique multiscreen format. ...

Setanta Sports is an Irish TV sports channel. ... Scottish Premier League logo The Scottish Premier League (full name Bank of Scotland Premierleague, or the SPL for short) is the top division within the current structure of Scottish football. ... Television X is an adult television channel owned by Richard Desmond. ... Red Hot TV is a set of 8 British adult television channels. ...

See Also

This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Freeview logo Freeview is an operator of free digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, using the DVB-T standard. ... BT Vision will be a digital TV service in the UK, from BT, due to launch in autumn 2006. ...

References

  1. ^ Although not part of the formal Top Up TV channel line-up, Top Up TV does supply the channel space, encryption and payment services for Setanta Sports, Television X and Red Hot and thus allows it to broadcast on the digital terrestrial service.

In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge. ...

External links

  • Top Up TV
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IPTV: Aliant TV | BT Vision | Canal Digital | HomeChoice | now TV | TeliaSonera | Viasat
Terrestrial television: Boxer TV Access | FreeView (NZ) | Freeview (UK) | MiTV | Multi-Choice TV (Barbados) | Top Up TV | USDTV
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