DSTV: Smart card

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Hi

I'm moving into a house that has a DSTV dish, decoder etc, but I have been told I need to get my own smart card.

How much do these cost and how does one go about getting one? Is this a "once-off" payment and then you are just required to pay for the subscription fees (monthly)?

Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 
smart card is once off and usually comes with the decoder. I think it might be in the region of 200 rand or less. Subscription fee's apply...
 
Thanks. :)

So I assume you can buy this separately without a decoder?
 
The agents charge between R400 and R500.

See how old the decoder is. If it's an older one you can pick up a new 990 with smartcard for R499 - R599.

Where do you live?
 
Just remember you need to get a form from MIH to transfer the decoder to your name.
 
Thanks, who is MIH though?

Power went off 4 hours ago just as I was about to hit reply! grr..
 
Sorry: Old thread

Any idea of what a current smart card cost? Can I just go and buy one and then the call center will do the marriage for me?
 
kiepie said:
Sorry: Old thread

Any idea of what a current smart card cost? Can I just go and buy one and then the call center will do the marriage for me?
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Yup, just remember, same thing applies. The new cheapie decoders (~R400) come with a SC, so don't spend more than that on just the SC.
 
Just returned from a trip to Lesotho. In every 'village' , 90% of the shacks had dstv dishes attached to the mud wall or fixed to the thatch. Most had small panels outside powering a crappy old battery. No electricity could be seen for hundreds of Ks , yet they watched soccer all day? All those I asked about monthly subs etc just laughed. No one talked. Just seen the same situation in Hazyview , no one talks about it . ?????
 
dunkyd said:
Just returned from a trip to Lesotho. In every 'village' , 90% of the shacks had dstv dishes attached to the mud wall or fixed to the thatch. Most had small panels outside powering a crappy old battery. No electricity could be seen for hundreds of Ks , yet they watched soccer all day? All those I asked about monthly subs etc just laughed. No one talked. Just seen the same situation in Hazyview , no one talks about it . ?????[/QUOTE]

Yeah man, why should poor villagers be watching DStv? What has this world come to? On a serious note, if DStv could be hacked it would not have started with poor villagers in Lesotho..I'd expect some scheme like that in Cape Town's northern suburbs but as many people have said on here, Irdeto is near impossible to hack. My guess is that those villagers are paying the R220 it costs to watch Supersport 3 & 4.
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Except that in some villages I passed thru , there is absolutely no employment at all. That is maybe 3 or 4 hundred shacks ! The ladies tend the few mealies with hoes, the men drink beer and watch tv. They do not even make curios anymore in Lesotho. One stall sells curios in the entire country at Sani Top Chalets, no where else. Strange ???
 
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