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Thomson DTI 6300-16 - Top Up TV Anytime
| Author | Jonathan Bray |
| Published | 21st May 2007 |
| Manufacturer | Top Up TV |
| Price | £139.99 plus £9.99 per month |
| Latest Price | Click here |
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Television 'on-demand' has hit the headlines recently with both ITV and the BBC announcing a couple of weeks back that they'd be making all of their programs available on a catch-up basis online.
But these aren't the only developments aimed at changing the way we watch the box. BT, for instance, has just launched its Vision service, combining a Freeview digital TV recorder with on-demand movies and other content over broadband. Channel 4 has been operating a selective download service – 4od – for a while now.

Sky, meanwhile, has its Anytime service, which combines TV you can download and watch on your PC with a jukebox service, which records a selection of TV overnight and stores it to watch anytime you like. HD subscribers get this service for nothing and, very soon, so will owners of recent Sky+ boxes.
Now, Top Up TV, which supplies premium channels via terrestrial digital, is getting in on the act, with a service, coincidentally also called Anytime (I hear the pitter patter of tiny lawyers' feet), and it's this that I'm reviewing here.

What you get when you subscribe to the service is a set-top box – you guessed it, it's called the Top Up TV + box, just like Sky's – and this allows you to watch and record all the normal Freeview terrestrial digital channels. It has twin tuners, so you can record two programmes at once – and watch another if your telly has a digital tuner – plus a capacious 160GB hard disk inside that's good for storing more than 120 hours of film and TV.
The box has an impressive 14-day programme guide and you can do all the usual things you can with a Sky+ box: pause, rewind and playback live TV, watch a programme from the beginning while it's still being recorded, and set it to record whole TV series with a single click – for those programmes that are correctly tagged in the program guide of course.
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I have had one of these for six months, they are nothing but trouble. The software is unstable which causes the unit to frequently freeze. To reset it requires switching the power ... more