DSTV price increase

How do you feel about these increases?

  • One too many for me, I will be canceling my subscription

    Votes: 74 30.6%

  • It is still better than having SABC

    Votes: 53 21.9%

  • I think I will have to download my series from now on

    Votes: 87 36.0%

  • I am not sure yet

    Votes: 24 9.9%

  • It is still cheap

    Votes: 4 1.7%
  • Total voters
    242
I'd love to see their "reasons for the increase" this year round. Last year MC didn't add squat and still hiked their subscription.
 
Just give me a sports bouquet (SS1, SS2, ESPN (Golf) and special sports events channels) in HD for R200 or even R250. Shove the rest.
 
ADS, Profits.....

Yes, alot of ads, but unfortunately the US networks makes their pgm's only 25-45 minutes long, so something has to fill the void, and give me a more natural reason to pause and send the wife for another beer.

As far as Naspers profits are concerned, I would rather support a company making healthy profits, investing in new technology, than sitting with someone like Sentech, making boggerol money, and providing a crap service, or folding at the first economic sneeze of the world economy.

That is why I drive a Isuzu, and not a Mayia!
 
killadoob said:
Well stoke of course they have ads or they would need find another 20 minutes of content an hour.

They are a business and they need to make money and i think 500 rand for the service they offer is pretty decent and comparing our 3rd country to a 1st country is pointless, why not look at the rest of africa and ask yourself how is their tv?
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I enjoy BOP tv.
Their series are uninterrupted by adverts, as well as their movies.
Incredible hey.

You've got to ask yourself why it is that DSTV do not catalog BOP TV's programming.
To me, it's self evident.
 
Why not get a UK billing address and subscribe to HD Sky TV for only 10 pounds a month there satellite covers South Africa.
Get someone to ship the decoder and smart card
 
gregmcc said:
How much do you drink! :eek::D

I'll stick to easynews thanks - also no ad breaks, no repeats
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Are you serious? damn man a double j &b plus water sets you back like 30 bucks plus whateva my fiancee is drinking, plus a couple rounds of shooters. 500 bucks is nothing at a pub or club man.

500 bucks gets me an entire month of the best sports action and keeps the fiancee happy :).

Love ya supersport!!!
 
Yes, its a rip off, but my in my situation i have no choice, i have to watch live sport.

I will give credit when credits due, Supersport is amazing with the rugby, all Super 14, Six nations, Sevens and Heineken cup and thats just the rugby, there is still golf and the cricket.

So yes i'm a fool for paying R500+ a month for supersport, but hey what other options do i have.
 
NathanCrow said:
Why not get a UK billing address and subscribe to HD Sky TV for only 10 pounds a month there satellite covers South Africa.
Get someone to ship the decoder and smart card
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Can someone confirm that this is possible??
 
Most links i find on the web makes this unlikely. The Sky beam is very focused on the UK and Ireland. Even with a mega-dish it looks unlikely. It could be that I'm looking at the wrong thing....
 
Multichoice is grabbing the cake in a deflationary market for the products it is purchasing. This is pure unadulterated greed on their part. It is financial decisions like these that got the global banks in trouble. Multichoice doesn't have that risk factor and chances are that even if they lose a lot of subscribers the profit is still more overall...

Sis Multichoice, this is seriously foul on your part. In an economic environment like this? I know you are not the the tv business for charity, but this is pure exploitation. I think the competition commission needs to look at this...

It is time there is an open inquiry into the pricing practice of Multichoice in correlation with its cost structure...
 
I would also be interested to find out if sky's services are available in south africa. Wouldn't need their sports bouquet a i find supersport shows more live sport. Just their entertainment ones. I wouldn't think its possible purely cos multichoice would block their signal considering they get alot of content from sky- rugby and soccer.
 
How exactly would multichocie "block" Sky's signal... that would be a monumental effort considering they'd need to blanket the entire country in a satellite blocking system, which I doubt actually exists.
 
NaushadE said:
I would also be interested to find out if sky's services are available in south africa. Wouldn't need their sports bouquet a i find supersport shows more live sport. Just their entertainment ones. I wouldn't think its possible purely cos multichoice would block their signal considering they get alot of content from sky- rugby and soccer.
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They would not be allowed to block the signal. It would be ICASA's job to block it if at all...
 
antowan said:
They would not be allowed to block the signal. It would be ICASA's job to block it if at all...
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ICASA will only be able to try and stop people from buying the equipment to receive the signal. I don't think they can actually order Sky to not broadcast, especially from outside the countries borders.
 
here's the problem. there is no competition. it's just that simple. those who can remotely afford dstv will have it simply as an alternative to SABC. multinonsense can charge what they like and people will pay. I have dstv and I think it's way over priced. however I cannot be subjected to SABC programming. that is reason enough why people will continue paying for dstv.
they can obviously provide pay what you watch channels, but they dont. clearly they make more money the way they are doing it.
 
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