What's 'Top Up TV'?
Top Up TV is a new pay-TV venture for the UK's DTT platform run by former BSkyB and Freeview executives, consisting of around ten scrambled premium channels broadcasting alongside Freeview's free-to-air service in a handful of spare slots (click here for complete list and schedule).

Launched at the end of March 2004, the service was initially only available to owners of old ITV Digital boxes, who are thought to number between 500,000 and 800,000.  Since ITV Digital boxes are able to receive the current Freeview channels (although not their interactive elements), paying the £7.99 a month subscription fee for Top Up TV effectively expands the Freeview service from around 30 channels to around 40.

The service is currently being extended to IDTVs and certain Freeview boxes (click here for the latest list of compliant receivers), through the fact that these receivers contain a so-called 'common interface' (CI) slot which can take a standard module called a CAM (for Conditional Access Module) into which a Top Up TV card can be inserted. These CAM modules can now be purchased through this website by clicking here - although please do check Top Up TV's listings of compliant receivers before you decide to do that.

Click here if you want to download a Top Up TV information pack (Warning - Large PDF file!)