DStv's lower-than-inflation increases

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DStv prices versus inflation

MultiChoice increases DStv's pricing annually, and its claims of lower-than-inflation increases have held for DStv Premium, Compact Plus, and Compact over the past ten years.

DStv's latest price hike took effect on 1 April 2024, with subscription fees across its pay-TV catalogue rising by 3.1% to 7.8% over the previous year.
 
BBSA said:
You know what's funny? When a service is already too expensive, price hikes that don't match inflation don't magically make it affordable.
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Is it to expensive though in reality? Or is that just the perception cause people hate on DSTV and harp on about repeats. How much has things actually gone up in the last ten years for everything around us?
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That is a 40% increase over 10 years, going to a movie with 4 people is almost that price nowadays
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Without the popcorn, sure you could get a normal 2D price
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Just this Saturday, it cost me R600 for 2 people for a decent lunch at an okay Steak house (not Spur)

So in reality is it really that expensive? In comparison to what everything else costs nowadays? Sure it's one of the first things people dump. But in reality if people actually sat down and thought about the expenses elsewhere?
I mean, Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon and Showmax alone comes to R536 a month, how much time do you really spend watching that?
 
Lupus said:
Is it to expensive though in reality? Or is that just the perception cause people hate on DSTV and harp on about repeats.
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Not at face value, no.. however, the value proposition has gotten far worse over the last 10 years while the price has increased..

If they weren't ditching good channels and replacing it with utter horse shyte, it would be a different matter..
 
WAslayer said:
Not at face value, no.. however, the value proposition has gotten far worse over the last 10 years while the price has increased..

If they weren't ditching good channels and replacing it with utter horse shyte, it would be a different matter..
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What good channels did they ditch? Also sadly the value proposition is about the same for the thing that costs the most and it's the sport :-( if they had an entertainment only package it might be lower.
 
Basically Multichoice is actively increasing Netflix's share price LMAO
 
Another new DStv article? How do you like your steak MyBB? Well done!
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Lupus said:
What good channels did they ditch? Also sadly the value proposition is about the same for the thing that costs the most and it's the sport :-( if they had an entertainment only package it might be lower.
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Over the years it's been a laundry list, but animax, a BBC channel of some variety that's far better than the current one they air comes to the top of my mind..
 
WAslayer said:
Over the years it's been a laundry list, but animax, a BBC channel of some variety that's far better than the current one they air comes to the top of my mind..
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Animax was 14 years ago already, plus it wasn't showing great stuff anyway. Think it was BBC First they lost 6 years ago?
 
WAslayer said:
Over the years it's been a laundry list, but animax, a BBC channel of some variety that's far better than the current one they air comes to the top of my mind..
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The British content is niche in this market, not enough traction.

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Daniel Puchert said:
DStv prices versus inflation

MultiChoice increases DStv's pricing annually, and its claims of lower-than-inflation increases have held for DStv Premium, Compact Plus, and Compact over the past ten years.

DStv's latest price hike took effect on 1 April 2024, with subscription fees across its pay-TV catalogue rising by 3.1% to 7.8% over the previous year.
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Jirre Daniel you clown :ROFL:
 
Lupus said:
What good channels did they ditch?
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I once had a similar exchange with @Brian_G .

Sports-only streaming package won't come to DStv if MultiChoice is bought by Canal+

DStv is screwing themselves on so many fronts. If they gave an option to people outside of SA to have access to streaming kyknet - heck doesn't even need to be on demand - just have access to it as background noise. Plenty of expats will get it. Make a plan with sports, but I recall a...
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Gudnews said:
I once had a similar exchange with @Brian_G .

Sports-only streaming package won't come to DStv if MultiChoice is bought by Canal+

DStv is screwing themselves on so many fronts. If they gave an option to people outside of SA to have access to streaming kyknet - heck doesn't even need to be on demand - just have access to it as background noise. Plenty of expats will get it. Make a plan with sports, but I recall a...
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My only gripe is they could be 1080p for streaming :-( but otherwise there is still quite a lot of international content.
 
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