TopUpTV "pay as you go"

Nick -D-vB

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TopUpTV have just launched a new "pay as you go" service:

http://www.topuptvpayasyougo.com/

There is no £20 connection charge or credit check / direct debit, you just buy a one week smartcard in the supermarket for £10.

Not sure how it's going to work yet but it could be an interesting new angle of attack...

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Nick -D-vB

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BTW, what's this all about???

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£10 a week is a lot when you can get the whole month for like £8. Or have i got the wrong end of the stick?
 

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No you haven't, it's definitely poor value when compared to the subscriber rate. What I don't get is if these are £10 for a weeks viewing why the website is quoting a figure of £2 a day. Also seems to be rather a costly option for them having to issue viewing cards repeatedly.
 

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I guess that they are using the scheme as a taster.
 

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Ive heard that Xtraview is similar costs £1 for 1 channel a day and the charge is made to your BT phone by calling them
 

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Xtraview is dead. Long live PAYG!

I can't imagine for a second that they will issue weekly smartcards...?!?!?! O-no

That would also limit them to those punters with ondigi-boxes, IDTV's and Nokia boxes with CAM slots! :-bash

Which must surely mean some kind of keyed front-end... I think that the stream will be encrypted somehow this time (they would be nuts not too, right?), but without a card it must 'work' in a different way...

I always thought that it must be possible to use a bastardised version of PGP or similar...

Very interesting. :D
 
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