DStv's lower-than-inflation increases

[Brian_G]

And this is a fact. Those "decoders" of theirs.... OMG, I think they actually propped up the semiconductor manufacturers to keep 'em going while the rest of the world moved on to newer tech.

Every time I strip one of these MonoChoice boxes for fun, I am struck at how everything looks 10 years ago in there. And made by the highest bidder which proves the decoders are subsidised.

They claim they can't move forward as fast as desired due to the need to protect their proprietary security measures. They're truly obsessed about that factor, but somewhat justified in that their Irdeto has a sizeable worldwide market involvement.

 

[PaulGherkin]

They claim they can't move forward as fast as desired due to the need to protect their proprietary security measures. They're truly obsessed about that factor, but somewhat justified in that their Irdeto has a sizeable worldwide market involvement.

Yes, the precious, non-peer-reviewed, and easily hacked piece of crap called IRDETO

 

[Brian_G]

easily hacked piece of crap called IRDETO

Doubt that, from what I've heard in the past the gypo smartcards don't last more than a couple of weeks.
If you mean the hijacking of their channels by some on IPTV, think that's a legit subscription they're using but with massive returns.

Haven't heard of anyone hacking into their streaming, have you?

 

[Lupus]

We've gone off topic, I'm not questioning MC's loss of channels per se in this thread, are you not reading what I already posted?

It is a fact that History themselves, worldwide, changed their content in a way that many viewers think is ridiculous. And happened many years ago.

Turn around channel?

A turn around channel is broadcast as is from the supplier through the satellite, basically just ads spliced in where necessary.

 

[Lupus]

as technology marches on things get relatively cheaper, if they get more expensive they need to offer something extra

we're not talking about a liter of milk in 2024 compared to 1995, Netflix is driven by technology, similarly you might want to argue a CPU or discrete GFX card in 2024 costs more than it did in 1995, but then you're ignoring the fact that 2024 tech makes 1995 look like the stone age

DSTV's technology is still the stone age, their prices therefor should also be stone age ... either innovate or die, you can't refuse to innovate and hike prices nonstop if you want to survive

Sure but remember they aren't a tech company, the offer a service that requires payment up front from them. Unless the suppliers become AI we can't really say that content will get cheaper.

 

[Deandbn]

they're losing customers hand over fist, ANY increase AT ALL just shows how f-ing tone deaf the idiots are

deep price cuts and actual better product offerings like PPV etc is their only hope, but no, let's mess around with yet more increases and brag about how small they are

Shame man! Give them a chance to let previously disadvantaged film directors and actors a chance to make terrible movies using your money, gosh, I'm sure you don't just want 10 year old reruns for your R1000 pm do you?

 

[Brian_G]

Sure but remember they aren't a tech company, the offer a service that requires payment up front from them. Unless the suppliers become AI we can't really say that content will get cheaper.

MC have enough muscle to be able to drive prices down a bit, I'm sure they have. What they don't seem to be willing to try is passing that on to a fair degree - my personal theory is that it's a kinda attitude that they or their product must never look weaker.
Old school, which is what their management is (or used to be).

Anyway, somehow they keep their market well alive still so maybe we're wrong about what is tolerated by their consumers.

 

[Bad Ballie]

Before the government tried to kill off as much business and employment as it could with its pre-planed plandemic response (Never forget Ramaphosa's "rising racism" speech) DSTV was already way overpriced and badly managed, their business model never changed from that day in 1986 when M Net first aired until today. It doesn't matter if DSTV is raising it's pricing slower then the interests rates or government created inflation, the reality is that it simply isn't worth the money anyway.

 

[wizardofid]

MC have enough muscle to be able to drive prices down a bit, I'm sure they have. What they don't seem to be willing to try is passing that on to a fair degree - my personal theory is that it's a kinda attitude that they or their product must never look weaker.
Old school, which is what their management is (or used to be).

Anyway, somehow they keep their market well alive still so maybe we're wrong about what is tolerated by their consumers.

Wanna bet what the next article is going to be about.....they are going to compare packages, and the conclusion is going to be monochoice offers more choice to their customers, and then likely do a direct price conversion as well.

https://www.directv.com/satellite/

Their low tier packages STILL offer better value, and still have select sport channels that is better than ours, and sure the premier package direct conversion is over 2k, but it includes pretty much every major channel, HBO, US network and have pretty much full coverage both regional and country wide.

Even their lowest tier package have better sport coverage. What it actually points out is how lacking monochoice is with regards to full channels they have and shows they have picked from broadcasters, we aren't getting even a 10th of what is internationally available let alone the USA. Also shows how little content they actual have and how much repeats they need to fill in the remaining airtime.

Not that repeats is an alien concept else where in the world, but doubtful it is as close to what we are getting.

It wouldn't surprise me if you were to count the first time something airs and time without ads, you would likely end up with less than 7 days of content, some of the cheaper channels monochoice has the repeats of the same episode or program is literally every single day with alternating time slots in a 30 day period, some channels the content is literally a continuous repeat loop for several months at a time.

Thinking about it satellite TV or combined TV streaming package just isn't worth it, you are better off with a fixed streaming library sub the amount of filler and repeats just isn't worth it for the price.......

To me it is a shameless scam.....

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

8:04 AM and the MonoChoice drivel starts... Wow

We love DSTV day?