Loads of people care about the speed and reliability of a box, and OnDigital boxes are offcourse a piece of ageing equipment they look so antique on the barker honestly even with a polish lol.
For all you no when you get your "Top Up TV Card" and perform a encryption update the whole thing might blow a gasket.
If they wanted a serious pay service they would be patient and wait for new boxes to come out before launching this dreadful service.
And if E4 gets major EPG positions will channel 14 then its a shambles, shame on Ofcom.
Let me again clarify why the channels available are not adequate and why you would be ripped of by paying for this:
1) TCM, Boomerang were free-to-air until recently.
2) Bloomberg was free channel on some form of satellite until recently.
3) UK Style and UK Food are exactly what UK BrightIdeas is modelled at, almost every show on these channels have terrestrial rights, shown on BBC1 or UK BrightIdeas that's why we pay the tv listen.
4) E4 is basically a glorified reality inhabited version of channel 4's main stream analogue channel, only nerds would subscribe to such a god forbidden channel.
5) TVX - well again its a nerds channel, for sad losers and pedophiles after a virtual kick because they can't get any real sex.
6) Cartoon Network - well again allot of thier shows have terrestrial rigths allready shown on Freeview, for example SpongeBob Squaresants and correct me if i am wrong but itsa free channel in Europe anyway right so all you would need is a satteliet to pick it up. (Also allot of thier shows are dissshed out to ITV Plc for daytime Chilrends tv.
7) UK Gold - well again it was previously shown free, just because its got archived why should it be pay.
Discovery is the only channel which would interest me, it's in the Sky's base pack at £13.50 and i could get much loved Sky One and have my Freeview box on AV2 so i get the best of both worlds, however right now i have little interest in pay tv ventures as i am happy with Freeview.
Honestly why would you want to subscribe to prevoiusly free content, meaning you would have to use againg eqipment for the privelage of picking it up.
Don't be fooled people!
People who say:"Top-Up TV can give them a few extra channels" well..Which offers no much different from we have got, UK Food/UK Style - UKBI's shows most of it. UK Gold - BBC One/Two/ITV repeats, E4, nerds channel basicly a a glorified channel 4, Bloomberg - well it's a specialist, the average family are hardly going to want ot check up on exchange rates are they lol?, anyway Deckin Curry is just as good on BBC News 24, get regular finical updates every half hour, of press red for multiscreens playback. Cartoon Network/Boomerang - Yawn, half their content has terrestrial rights, in other words FREE already, TVX, geeks, pedo channel like i said, TCM well quite good, not worth paying for when it was previously free, Discovery is not a bad channel but nothing special, let me see if they had:
4 - 5 slots with...
1. Sky One - 24/7
2. British Eurosport - 27/7
3. Paramount Comedy Channel instead of UK Gold 27/7
4. VH1 Classic
and if they could have a 5th service Discovery 27/7 and maybe Playboy TV for the nerds during any of the channels downtime then i would consider subscribing, that's my idea of a topup, even still they would need to be a better company more employees and made their own STB's rather than a 11 channel line-up chopping channel schedules so they can make it sound like you're getting more channels, bit like Freeview saying 60 servies but only 24 streams + radio + text.
My idea of premium is stuff on Sky Sports where it CAN'T be shown on terrestrial that's my view.
You no folks, a little birdie told me that about ITV Digital then 800,000 of us woke up one Wednesday morning to find this on all the channels we subscribed to gone..
Some called it the saddest day in Television history until a new service backed by the BBC launched in October 2002.
Let's give it..erm 6 months before we see similar scenes this time it will only be on 4 channels and by then the "bricks" will be laid for these new free-to-air channels in 2005.
For all the dedicated freeview'ers like myself out there, just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride!