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Originally Posted by Stu038
Used to be a one off charge for the install, £10 iirc. The other option (round here anyway) was DMX which was 30 music channels through a seperate box that then plugged into your Hifi. That went years back though cos the uptake was too low  shame really cos it wasnt too bad. |
Off topic points of interest forthcoming.....
I didn't know that DMX was available via ntl - I know they were through United Artists, latterly Telewest in some areas, as they had a stakeholding in DMX.
Music Choice (then DMX's) competitor was available via the FM service for a while on ntl. DMX Europe went bust becuase of, well, basically not selling anything, and DMX US pulled their plug on the trans-am sat feeds becuase they did not pay the bills. The guy who ran the Euro company then launched a managament buy out, relaunching as Xtra Music, after sitting doing nothing for a couple of years.
Xtra Music was part owned by UPC, cable company in Holland then Liberty Digital bought a stake - which also owns DMX in the US.
Now Xtra Music is run as a wholly owned (or at least majority) subsidy of Liberty Digital, through DMX Music Europe (which bought AEI Music, who provide music to retailers) who used to have a stake holding in Music Choice.
Confused? Actually it's funny to be writing about all this stuff, as I used to work for AEI Music (based at the Music Choice offices in London).