TopTV Sucks!
If you're used to DSTV (and can afford their rip-off price for premium service), don't even think of TopTV. The DSTV budget bouquets provide poor value, and aren't worthy of consideration. It's premium or nothing. If I could switch off all the Supersport, MNET & Kyknet; and pay half the price, I'll be back with DSTV in under a month. I don't watch sport, and even so I find TopTV a pile of trash. Their repeats are absolutely ridiculous. You can't record anything to watch later, as they broadcast recording blocking signals effectively disabling your recording equipment (apparently due to their licensing agreement). Their promises of PVR functionality are nothing more than cheap lies meant to hoard unsuspecting subscribers. If you watch TopTV quite intensively for about 6 months, I'll be guessing you have a probability of about 0.9 (ie 90%) of seeing something you've seen before at any given moment when switching on your TV thereafter. With a dismal online TV schedule, and three-day decoder schedule, PVR functionality will be of little use too.
I can't imagine the license holders of the material supplied to TopTV being so strict that they insist on recording blocking the broadcasts, as the program material is of a much lower standard than that broadcast on DSTV, who did not broadcast blocking signals when I was subscribed to them! Blocking program recording only annoys the folk who don't intend pirating material, whereas the true hackers will find a way around as they always do! I very much doubt that the junk on TopTV will attract hackers anyway.
Don't bother wasting time posting comments on HelloPeter or Facebook, as they fall on deaf ears too. My intention is giving TopTV one year from their inception to start shaping up, which means I'll probably be giving them notice one month from now!
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