DSTV channel changes: the good, bad and UGLY

[Mobus]

-the good: new channels, more HD!

-the bad: you must reprogramme your scheduled recordings (too bad if you're out of town on 1 Oct)

-the ugly: HD PVR recording capacity effectively dropped to 50 hours (from 150 hours of SD recording)
With most of the popular channels to be broadcast in HD and SD on the same channel number, the HD PVR will only decode and record in HD, with a max of 50 hours.

DSTV, way to go on practically revoking an advertised PVR feature of 150 hours of recording!
Isn't this in breach of the CPA?

 

[Quantum Theory]

Isn't this in breach of the CPA?

I don't like that my car does 14l/100km when I drive it hard. Specs claim 9l/100km. This must be in breach of the CPA... NOT.

 

[Speedster]

it would have been nice if they at least gave us the option to record in sd.

 

[Smurfatefrog]

Everyone wants HD channels, but now so many people want to rather watch it in SD, and then some of those people will complain about repeats but they're actually running out of HDD space

 

[brixton tower]

Why can't they just give us an option to change out the HDD on the PVR decoder?

 

[McGuywer]

I am just glad there is more HD channels.

I don't mind recording only in HD.

I would hope in the future a PVR with more space does come available.

 

[McGuywer]

Well atleast they are adding channels.... Unlike "the other one"....

 

[Pooky]

I don't want HD c channels I only have a crt TV.

 

[psion]

Then why do you have a HD PVR?

 

[kilobits]

Then why do you have a HD PVR?

Can you still get a new SD PVR ??

 

[Pooky]

Then why do you have a HD PVR?

Can you still get a new SD PVR ??

Don't think so, well when we bought it it was cheaper than the SD one.

 

[DTBA]

Sigh why do they need to reshuffle the channels again

 

[czc]

Don't think so, well when we bought it it was cheaper than the SD one.

:wtf:

The SD one was the cheapest.

 

[Pooky]

:wtf:

The SD one was the cheapest.

The HD one was like R1899 when we bought it I think, while the SD one they had was R2999

 

[Quantum Theory]

Sigh why do they need to reshuffle the channels again

Does a library just add new books where there is an open spot, or do they reshuffle to make space to put each one in the right category?

 

[Q-Tech]

it would have been nice if they at least gave us the option to record in sd.

+1

 

[Mobus]

I don't like that my car does 14l/100km when I drive it hard. Specs claim 9l/100km. This must be in breach of the CPA... NOT.

The difference is you chose to drive your car hard, its not the manufacturer who suddenly makes achieving 9L/100km impossible.

To follow your analogy. DSTV tells you you can get 9l/100km on a tarred road, and 14L/100km untarred. Then they go bulldoze all the tarred roads...

 

[satanboy]

I don't want HD c channels I only have a crt TV.

/holds out collection plate for Pooky

 

[Quantum Theory]

The difference is you chose to drive your car hard, its not the manufacturer who suddenly makes achieving 9L/100km impossible.

To follow your analogy. DSTV tells you you can get 9l/100km on a tarred road, and 14L/100km untarred. Then they go bulldoze all the tarred roads...

If your vehicle is made for untarred roads, why do you want to drive on the tar?

 

[Mobus]

If your vehicle is made for untarred roads, why do you want to drive on the tar?

If the vehicle is "made for untarred roads", why then bother to advertise the tarred road fuel consumption?

If the HD PVR is made for HD recording, why bother to advertise SD recording? Easy, because only 50 hours on a PVR is ridiculous, and 150 hours sounds much better.