DStv competitors set broadcast deadlines

onerb said:
Tomo,

And they confirmed it? I posted before seeing yours, so that will almost kill of any ambitions for them to be competitive. They will have to be innovative to attract clients. I must say that I am a bit disgusted by the way DSTV used it's market dominance to screw the consumer. All the programs they claim is NEW ala Discovery is at least 6 months old. (where initially shown).
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While researching the article I spoke to representatives from both Super5Media and ODM. Each company confirmed that they have their own agreements with set top box manufacturers for their respective product offerings. ODM also added that a dish and a stb would need to be installed by a technician (the same as DSTv).

I'll look into whether Multichoice would be willing to work with these companies with regards to dishes etc but, as RPM said, why would they want to? Supr5Media will be rolling out a similar bouquet based offering - this puts them into direct competition. I'm sure Mutlichoice will be looking to protect their market interests in this case by making it difficult for the consumer to change operators.

This is no different to the mobile market - only recently have we seen number portability etc :)
 
Sirius 4 at 4.8 degrees East for ODM. This is in the opposite direction from Intelsat 7/10. This means that you would probably need to mount the dish on the other side of your house. MC will not share their decoder with these guys...
 
Well I paid R2000 for my DSTV decoder. Why will I now change over? The only way they will be able to enter the market is to piggy back on the dish that's already installed on my roof.
 
onerb said:
Well I paid R2000 for my DSTV decoder. Why will I now change over? The only way they will be able to enter the market is to piggy back on the dish that's already installed on my roof.
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You can forget about that. Multichoice decoders will not accept ODM smartcards... ever. From what I can see from the footprint of Sirius 4 on www.lyngsat.com, they might spec a dish bigger than 60cm, for the ODM service.
 
Quantum Theory said:
You can forget about that. Multichoice decoders will not accept ODM smartcards... ever. From what I can see from the footprint of Sirius 4 on www.lyngsat.com, they might spec a dish bigger than 60cm, for the ODM service.
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Well then they fail before they even start.

I can't see them bringing in iptv as we don't have the speeds for it.

Only way will be pay per view, and even then it must still be cheap for anyone to consider it.
 
ICASA was contacted regarding the repercussions Super5Media and ODM will face if they fail to meet broadcast deadlines, but no response had been received at the time of publishing.
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Repercussions? As if! I'm pretty sure that toothless ICASA will simply extend the deadlines.
 
Tomo3000 said:
I'll look into whether Multichoice would be willing to work with these companies with regards to dishes etc but, as RPM said, why would they want to? Supr5Media will be rolling out a similar bouquet based offering - this puts them into direct competition. I'm sure Mutlichoice will be looking to protect their market interests in this case by making it difficult for the consumer to change operators.
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It's BS for consumers, one receiver/decoder with multiple smart cards. Just another way to fsck the consumer over. We need to look at open or industry standards here.
 
So lets thow in the proposed taxing on tv licenses, I cannot understand why DSTV or any other supplier cant add the SABC license to your subscription.... and for that matter why we need to pay it I can very easily not watch SABC ....
 
DSTV PVR

Hi who have a DSTV PVR I have one and found out if you don't have a MC subscription the PVR functionality does not work. You can not stop or rewind TV neither can you record or view recordings you have to payR60 if you want to use your own PVR else it is useless. My next PVR will not have a DSTV sticker. You can get better PVR's for the same price.
See link http://www.satellitesuperstore.com/harddrives.htm
 
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Will need individual STB's, dish, etc for the service

These guys - ODM and Super5 are using MPEG4 technology while MultiChoice uses MPEG2. As a subscriber you will have to have a different STB, dish, LNB, smart card etc in order to receive their individual signals. Issues around Conditional Access, Encryption, Digital Rights Management etc means that there will be no sharing of STB's. Why would MultiChoice want to share STB's - they have a locked-in customer base. Giving the other players access to their customers doesn't make sense.
Also, how Super5Media expects to compete when they retrenched 50% of their staff due to economic circumstances (so they have about 40 staff compared to MultiChoice's several hundred) is beyond me. If they can't pay staff how can they buy content worth watching.
As for IPTV - only Super5Media were issued a cable AND IPTV licence by ICASA - they are the only ones that are licenced provide IPTV services. Whether they have the money or know how is another question.
 
killkom said:
I would think that a lot of the channels will be the same like Discovery and they will have a few movie channels and one thing is guaranteed they will have all the sports channels they know how important that is to convert people from MC
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What sports channels are you talking about? Do you think Naspers are honestly going to sell their premium content (probably their biggest client retention bouquet) to their competitors? And the rights for football, cricket, rugby etc have all been sold already - no way these new operators will have decent proprietary sporting content...
 
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