DStv struggling to keep subscribers in the era of streaming services

Bewlen said:
Why did Netflix become insanely successful? Because it offered value. R100 for all that content? Sure!

Sport should not be expensive to watch on tv. It is priced at the optimal pain point according to the best consumers' wallet, to deliver shareholder returns. It actively avoids value. For the average south african, R1000 is a LOT of money.

Multichoice, I am delighted that your greedy aRse& are getting clobbered. You fleeced the public, payback is a beach.
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Was value, now they have to merge, plus have to raise prices and add in ad tiers. Streaming can't survive with everyone wanting their own streaming services.
In the rest of the world it started about a year ago. As the death of cinema and physical media has caused other issues with smaller studios and filmmakers, hence why we've been getting a lot of junk on the big screen lately.
 
Lupus said:
Was value, now they have to merge, plus have to raise prices and add in ad tiers. Streaming can't survive with everyone wanting their own streaming services.
In the rest of the world it started about a year ago. As the death of cinema and physical media has caused other issues with smaller studios and filmmakers, hence why we've been getting a lot of junk on the big screen lately.
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The junk you are getting is how the media houses, reduce their tax profile - the cost and loss incurred, is written off against tax. But that does not stop them trying to make some money out of their tax right off's.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Most of the sport we watch is not South African sport, so no "Shame we can't afford R1000". Someone have to pay for that rights. Go watch and calculate what other countries pay for subscriptions that include the same sport catalogue.
Netflix has got old movies and series that everyone has watched already and they pay relatively cheap to broadcast them. It is easy to come in that price point. Hell DSTV does the same with Showmax.
Why do you think Netflix or any of these other popular streaming services do not offer live sport? Because sporting rights are expensive.
Maybe go search how much are paid for rights for a single sport and then think about it again.
SO if you have a problem with the prices, take it up with the individual sport codes, they the greedy thieves. Where do you think that millions the sport stars earn come from?
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Let's see you can watch The six-Nations, Selected Prenier League and FA Cup, Tennis, certain Golf Events, and sometimes even Olympics, All Free en Gratis. You can even watch (but you won't understand it) F1 for free. And it's all Legal So yes we are being shafted. Heck the RWC ITV broadcasted Most of the games for free, FA Cup final was on BBC 1, And the ICC T20 is "The ICC is also broadcasting the T20 World Cup live and free on ICC.tv, available in the official T20 World Cup app in over 80 territories across the world, including Continental Europe and South East Asia." so also another free legal way to bypass DSTV's BS Price
 
Fuzzbox said:
You can get a business package for R600pm per tv.
It can be done.
Multichoice just greedy
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Not exactly cheap though, is it.

The suppliers also fine control who gets charged what in their contracts, so not quite as easy as all that, but agree that MC are greedy.
 
@ectoplasm

"The ICC is also broadcasting the T20 World Cup live and free on ICC.tv, available in the official T20 World Cup app in over 80 territories across the world, including Continental Europe and South East Asia." so also another free legal way to bypass DSTV's BS Price

The App for ICC.tv is it available on Android TV, or on phone only?
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
@ectoplasm

"The ICC is also broadcasting the T20 World Cup live and free on ICC.tv, available in the official T20 World Cup app in over 80 territories across the world, including Continental Europe and South East Asia." so also another free legal way to bypass DSTV's BS Price

The App for ICC.tv is it available on Android TV, or on phone only?
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Afaik it's available for both. But we don't have a TV, as we mostly use a Tablet to stream
 
ectoplasm said:
Afaik it's available for both. But we don't have a TV, as we mostly use a Tablet to stream
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Asked as I have the App on my phone, but it did not show on my Shield TV Pro. Will have a look again, thanks. Might need to change location via VPN for it to show up.

Will investigate further. Thanks
 
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