When I try to play back a recording from TopUpTV, its unplayable. Whats gone wrong?
The subscription data on the TopUpTV card contains keys that enable you to watch programmes up to a certain date; they update those once a month or so, but tend to put the expiry date a couple of months ahead, probably because they have only a small proportion of channels, and so by making the card expire further into the future, there’s a better chance you’ll have viewed one of their channels before the keys expire. This is great for people who don’t have PVRs – the majority of their customers. But a consequence of that is that they don’t hold keys for past months, and you can’t watch programmes that are still encrypted with old keys. So around the start or end of the month, you may find that programmes you recorded suddenly become unwatchable, because you no longer have a valid key on your subscription card.
