New Sony widescreen with built-in freeview : how to get paid for top-up channels?

[autopilot]

My new sony has a built in digital tuner, but no card slot. Any way of geting the paid for channels, like E4 without buying a digital box? Silly me, thought it would have come with one. The freeview website is very vague.

[Dorza]

I dont know the answer to ur question but if its E4 ur interested in then you may want to wait. I read today that E4/+1 was comming to freeview with no top up card required.

[autopilot]

Thanks for that. It's was only E4 for the girlfriend and Discovery for us both we we interested in. £8 a month for one channel aint worth it!

[5lab]

there is some kind of slot, not a card reader, that some digiboxes have, which apparently can be adapted to read topuptv. i dont know if your telly will have one or not thou

[DsW]

TUTV requires a viewing card so if your telly doesn't have a CI slot then you can't get TUTV, so your only option (if you want TUTV) is to buy a seperate digibox which has a CI slot.

Official list of boxes that do have the appropriate slot is here - http://www.topup.tv/equipment_stb.htm

.. although that might not be quite up-to-date

[Nana]

pic of new sony pls?
specs and price?

I posted my new sony a couple of days ago in the injoi thread.

[autopilot]

Found out now I need a £40 'CAM' that plugs into the back for the pay channels. Not going to bother though now. Not worth the cost, might as well get Sky for a few extra quid but I don't watch enough telly to justify it.

Anyway, as requested this is the one I have, nothing too fancy but it's very good and I am well chuffed with it...

Sony KD-28DX51

£650 Retail / £400 Online

28" FD Trinitron® Wega®
Integrated digital tuner
EPG
Virtual Dolby® with BBE Sound
SmartLink
Blah blah blah... full spec sheet HERE.

[Howard]

E4 is a free channel by the way And it's already on FreeView

[Atomic]

Originally Posted by Howard

E4 is a free channel by the way And it's already on FreeView

It is now, but back on 16th May it wasnt.

[Nana]

nice, I like the black frame. always makes for better contrast imo.

I was until recently viewing on a Sony 32" KV 100Hz WEGA..... which amazingly cost exactly the same 5 years ago, as my 50" rear projection Grand WEGA I am currently on. Super monkey ball at 50" is a whole new game.

£400 is a good price for that set you've got. 5 years ago my 32" was 1550 or something like that and a few weeks ago my RP set was 1500 + the glass stand (which was uber rip off at 350 squid, but had to be done).

[autopilot]

Yeah, I really don't like masses of silver plastic. Looks 'cheap' to me. Black all the way. Looks nice with my Mission 701's next to it and my Cambridge Audio 640a AMP and Panasonic DVD on the shelves

[nvening]

i like all my electronics, dvd players etc in black, looks much better, mabe not flat screen tvs tho

[Nana]

i think I may have been misunderstood. I like my silver and glass look.. I just believe a black frame around a tv set gives a nicer contrast... B&O have been doing it for years.. all the rest caught on after toshiba did the picture fram tv's.

[BenW]

We've got a philips 32" with integrated freeview tuner (about 3 years old) and its got a 'Mach III' slot on the front and i think a 'communications slot' on the back

[dambrogio]

freeview or sky? freeview reception ois poor in our area - so we have had to resort to sky - but its a wee bit expensive

[alterion]

Discovery channel is RUBBISH nowadays i have it on NTL and there is never anything worth wtaching on it all the good programs seem to be on national geographic. so i wouldn;t sweat it