Smash Hits You Control! (The Box)

Member Name: popstar

Product:	The Box
Date:	18/09/01 (260 review reads)
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Advantages: good selection of music, nice teletext service, good quality pictures

Disadvantages: expensive to call, could do with adding an interactive feature

The Box was the first interactive jukebox channel aimed at the UK, playing the freshest new music, and some old firm favourits, its the only EMAP channel avaliable on all platforms (Except ITVDigital)

Whether you like rap, hip-hop, pop music or even rock you will find it all on this channel.

Last year the channel upgraded to a new viewing system which improved the channel no end, whereas previously adverts used to be in nearly every song, now you only get advert breaks every quater of an hour. as well as vastly improved picture quality and new logos.

The channel is run by viewers calling an 09901 number at 60p a minute, when you call in a telephone appears on screen and you can see the number you are typing be generated onscreen.

Alot of people think that what you request isn't played, but if you watch when the system crashes, note down the numbers called in, and they get played in that order. Its become alot easier to get a song played on The Box since EMAP launched the sister channels Kiss, Kerrang and Q.

Another good feature of The Box is the teletext service, its simple, but regularly updated (unlike the website, but as far as I know its under redevelopment at the moment!) and fast too!

If you want a TV channel along the lines of Radio 1 without the anoying presenters, then this is it, it really is Smash Hits you control!

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