DStv Explora gets a price cut

Mike Smit said:
None of mine have drives and the family get way more satisfaction from them than when we had our 2 DSTV decoders.

Think you miss the point. But anyway...
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You only just made your point.
 
qwertydudeza said:
If you were a cost accountant, you will be without a job, selling products below cost....
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Given the general shoddy quality of their decoder software which is a critical component, the one that users have to put up with every single day, I can think of a number of people that should be without a job!
 
qwertydudeza said:
How is the decoder expensive, there is about R4000 worth of hardware alone in there.
2Tb drive alone is cost R1400.

Motherboard, processor, RAM, 3 Sat tuners and remote.

The DStv Switch alone is about R500.

Add that up and you work out DStv are selling the unit below cost. So the decoder may cost money, but what it has in it, is far from cheap.
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2tb drive in the quantities that multichoice are ordering would be less then r900 a pop... The rest of it would probably hit them down for another grand.... The switch is an extra cost so doesn't count... I would be surprised if multichoice are selling the explora for a loss at all...

How do sky give away their decoder if they cost so much money to make?
 
And multichoice is good at withholding features just so they can make the later models expensive. Eg the LAN port on the 2P Pvr that thing has long been abandoned before it even had a life
 
ToxicBunny said:
2tb drive in the quantities that multichoice are ordering would be less then r900 a pop... The rest of it would probably hit them down for another grand.... The switch is an extra cost so doesn't count... I would be surprised if multichoice are selling the explora for a loss at all...

How do sky give away their decoder if they cost so much money to make?
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Its on their financials they sell them at a loss to attract clients. Even R1km the price is still over R3k, plus their is the case, packaging. Profit share for retailer. The only one's making money are retailers. Go do cost accouting 101 and try make the unit for profit and less.
 
kianm said:
And multichoice is good at withholding features just so they can make the later models expensive. Eg the LAN port on the 2P Pvr that thing has long been abandoned before it even had a life
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Well with units thst come from suppliers with motherboards, ports are often included whether consumer usable or not. The Explorar will have connectivity back. You do know there is an IP Model decoder like the 2P used in some hotels and residential estates that work over the LAN port, just most consumers use Sat as the input
 
Mike Smit said:
None of mine have drives and the family get way more satisfaction from them than when we had our 2 DSTV decoders.

Think you miss the point. But anyway...
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Hard drive is their to cache or save recordings, no internet no tv.
Cant compare, it like a solar car without batteries, no sun, no driving. Half a solution. No pause or rewind or at least a little that stays in memory,
 
qwertydudeza said:
Hard drive is their to cache or save recordings, no internet no tv.
Cant compare, it like a solar car without batteries, no sun, no driving. Half a solution. No pause or rewind or at least a little that stays in memory,
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I can watch TV via the Roku without internet. Roku is not ONLY streaming via the net. Sigh...
Do you have experience with them? Seems not.
 
stevenv said:
Given the general shoddy quality of their decoder software which is a critical component, the one that users have to put up with every single day, I can think of a number of people that should be without a job!
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Indeed, I was once told they hire only a certain kind for the job of developing the software.
Let's just say its people who are p1sspoor coders, the code is a mess, and its full of bloat because they haven't a farking clue what they are doing.

Ever wonder why the sound disappears sometimes? Memory leaks!
 
They can give their decoders away for free, I won't buy one because they rip you off with the hell of a high subscription fees!
I can see them cutting that soon! People are not falling for their crap anymore and go somewhere else. Their "Super" rugby figures are falling too!
 
qwertydudeza said:
Its on their financials they sell them at a loss to attract clients. Even R1km the price is still over R3k, plus their is the case, packaging. Profit share for retailer. The only one's making money are retailers. Go do cost accouting 101 and try make the unit for profit and less.
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If they are selling them at a loss, then I'm massively surprised tbh. It does not strike me as something that Multichoice would willingly do.

Given that they're massively opaque about the cost price for the unit, I am surprised that they're costing anywhere near R2000 for them to manufacture.
 
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