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On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:25:47 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
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In article ,
Peter Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:33:38 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:




But still not as nice as the old Toppy. Wonder why they gave up making
them?


The UK market wasn't big enough to justify the effort.


What changed? Obviously worth making them once. And what it the major
difference with the UK market over others world wide?


From memory they did two or three Freeview models and packed up. Don't
know about satellite models.
Can't help thinking that the interaction that Topfield had with the
very active user group made them realise that the users, those users
anyway, had expectations that they (T) weren't prepared/able to meet.