DTT hacking set for a come back ?

**hxbro** · 29th January 2004

Pay TV proposal for Freeview

Pay TV channels could soon be available for Freeview under plans to launch a new subscription service, Broadcast reports this week.

Called 'Top-Up TV', the premium package is the brainchild of former Sky executives David Chance and Ian West. The pair were one of the applicants who tendered a bid to run the DTT service after the demise of ITV Digital in 2002 but lost out to the joint BBC/Sky/Crown Castle consortium, Freeview.

Around ten channels would initially be in the lineup for the package, including the likes of E4, Sky One, TCM, Cartoon Network, UK Gold and Discovery. Top-Up TV would initially be aimed at the 1.25 million households with old ITV digital boxes and integrated digital TVs.

Subscribers would have to pay around �8 to �10 per month for the premium addon, which could launch as early as April.

The announcement is likely to anger the BBC, who have been largely successful in educating viewers about their new 'free' digital service; the launch of Top-Up TV on the platform could add to viewer confusion and slow down growth of the product.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds13217.html

Be interesting to see if it does launch which encryption they will be using

**Yazmon** · 29th January 2004

Good stuff! Ive been wanting E4 back for ages! Time to get those gold cards ready

(Though the BBC is right, everyones been selling set top boxes that dont have space for a CAM so its gonig to cause a lot of agravation!)

**digidump** · 29th January 2004

Excellent - I rediscovered Elvis recently when I moved house and I'll be glad to get him back to work.

Now where did I put those goldies

**Oracus** · 29th January 2004

Originally Posted by digidump

Excellent - I rediscovered Elvis recently when I moved house and I'll be glad to get him back to work.

And me, and the gold card is in teh drawer next to me, where it has been ever since OnDigi shut down!

Os`

**sbaxter9** · 30th January 2004

elvis just entred the building
lets hope there encryption gets leaked by sly again

**beansontoast** · 30th January 2004

Originally Posted by hxbro

the premium package is the brainchild of former Sky executives David Chance and Ian West

Soon to be crowned "the stupidest numpties in broadcasting". Get the corporate wooden spoon ready.

**DelTrotter** · 30th January 2004

just about to sell my maximus as well, no way ill keep my eyes on this, so miss On Digi

**pete252** · 31st January 2004

......mmm juicy thread - might be worth getting elvis from the loft - NO he has not left the building !!!

**Thrush** · 31st January 2004

Just a quick question.... All the free-2-view boxes do they have telephone inputs/outputs on the back of them.... Is it possible to run the security system down the phone line rather than with a gold card. For example the boxes contact the company every night for the next days viewing.... different codes for different areas according to the region that you live in.

**Yazmon** · 31st January 2004

Originally Posted by CueballKrill

Just a quick question.... All the free-2-view boxes do they have telephone inputs/outputs on the back of them.... Is it possible to run the security system down the phone line rather than with a gold card. For example the boxes contact the company every night for the next days viewing.... different codes for different areas according to the region that you live in.

Think your getting ahead of yourself here squire! Wait till the stations hit the air waves, then we will know what were up against!

**dingle_666** · 31st January 2004

Originally Posted by Yazmon

Think your getting ahead of yourself here squire! Wait till the stations hit the air waves, then we will know what were up against!

my pace freeview box has a card slot underneath, no telephone sockets

**Thrush** · 31st January 2004

hehehe just thinking of the possibilities

**hxbro** · 4th February 2004

http://www.topup.tv/ is now up (its just a single page saying info will appear by the end of feb)

**stevo25** · 4th February 2004

@ dingle the card reader in the pace is attached i think to a open architechture cam

**dingle_666** · 4th February 2004

dont get you stevo

**beansontoast** · 4th February 2004

Originally Posted by dingle_666

dont get you stevo

It's not restricted to the old encryption (by the sounds of it). It would be madness to use any other encryption though, chopping out a large user base.

(this logitech keyboard is damned nice, needs some getting used to though - at least it doesn't have mayonnaise stuck between the keys

)

**stevo25** · 4th February 2004

its basically blank and the firmware can be updated by the program provider i was told this by a bloke at pace at the launh of there little crappy dtt box with no rf loop