[1] The service ceased transmitting on 31 March 2012 to "undergo essential maintenance work", and promised to return in approximately seven days.

They had intended to offer pay television packages by spring 2012 which would have included Sky Sports 1 and 2 and a high definition version of Blackbelt TV.

For their proposed pay TV offering, Real Digital intended to use a Conax conditional access system.

A number of live demonstrations to retailers showed the Real Digital EPG and TV channel lists running and the GUI was widely praised.

Real Digital claim to be undergoing essential maintenance work, with the signal going offline for approximately 7 days.

Oon 11 April 2012 Real Digital claimed on Facebook that work had halted due to the Easter break.

Between 2014 and 2016, General Satellite (a Russian manufacturer of set-top boxes) held a majority of the voting shares in Real Digital TV Limited.