Couch Potato Heaven

[mh348]

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Multichoice is another Telkom

True, Multichoice uses excuses that they are restriced by ICASA with regards to creating buquets. I emailed them last month to find out about bouquets and they say due to licencing restrictions they are not allowed to create other bouquets, where for example subscribers can choose which channels they want. If it was really due to licencing how did they create a Compact bouquet with those crap channels, they could of at least put mnet in the bouquet for say R250. MNET (1 channel) costs around R230 a month and DSTV bouquet with over 55 channels cost around R450, this doesn't really make sense, becauce the other 54 channels will cost R220.

[duderoo]

becauce the other 54 channels will cost R220.

True....and I do not have satellite but my fath-in-law does, but how many of the other channels do people really watch.

[noxibox]

Not trying to defend Multichoice but the problem here is you don't have the economies of scale that you do overseas.

But if they offered what people want they'd have more customers.

This is basically the same excuse Telkom uses. It is a variation on the excuse for not lowering the price of DVDs, CDs and games too.

[noxibox]

True, Multichoice uses excuses that they are restriced by ICASA with regards to creating buquets.

If true why don't they widely publicise this? I'm not convinced it is true.

If I could choose 10 channels I want for R150 I'd get satellite without hesitation, but I can't choose, I'm not interested in most of those in the full product and the limited one is missing some core ones I'd want while including several I'd never watch.

[Geriatrix]

Multichoice are still thinking with a business mindset of 30 years ago, where you make money by charging more.

Instead they can make better bouqet options (like adding atleast Mnet to the compact packadge) which will definately attract more subscribers, which ,in turn, would lead to a huge increase in advertising revenues.

There are other money generating possibilities aswell with more viewers, you just have to be a little creative and take some initiative, but then again, thats not how business works in this country is it?

If you don't believe me, think Google. They(DSTV) are idiots to run the business the way they do but hey, its their shareholders who are losing out.

[duderoo]

Multichoice are still thinking with a business mindset of 30 years ago, where you make money by charging more.

It is beyond reason why companies think like that, surely they can reason and says lets drop the price and we will get more customers, but they probably don't want to take the risk on the "maybe we will get more customers".

[Dastrix]

Does anyone else think its funny that ICASA are "opening the gates" for anyone who wants to turn us into couch-potato-tv-zombies, but does its utmost to prevent the growth of the internet?

[albert123]

i will eat my dirty socks if we have a single channel more by the end of 2007 nevermind "many more choices"

[Tns]

Not trying to defend Multichoice but the problem here is you don't have the economies of scale that you do overseas. You could easily have 50 million subscribers with a satellite that has a European footprint for instance whereas Multichoice, covering the whole of Africa and the Middle East, only has 1,5 million.

true neither is there anyone else to compete! it's like telkom