Is Dstv Premium worth it?

[wcoetzee]

I pay R260 a month for M-Net. I get all the premium series, the rugby, cricket and the newest movies. Which is practically all I need.

What I do miss is Boston Legal (only on Series Channel), Formula One and SuperSport's Olympic Coverage. History Channel would have been nice, but at least there's Wikipedia

you have answered your own q
premium dstv FTW

 

[Turiko]

The day they give people the freedom to choose what channels they want, and bill each channel at a specific rate, we would see an unprecedented uptake of Multiscrew's Dstv!

But no, the folks at Naspers are very hell bent on building an unpreccedented monopoly and are as greedy as hell, even more greedy than Telskam.

Anyhow, this raises an interesting question. Does one need that smart card to watch channels such as SABC 1, 2, 3 i.e. the free-to-air channels?

 

[nico_g]

I pay R260 a month for M-Net. I get all the premium series, the rugby, cricket and the newest movies. Which is practically all I need.

What I do miss is Boston Legal (only on Series Channel), Formula One and SuperSport's Olympic Coverage. History Channel would have been nice, but at least there's Wikipedia

you have answered your own q
premium dstv FTW

Well, I miss the above-mentioned things, but that doesn't mean I can't live without it. An entire season of Boston Legal can be rent for R33 from my local video shop. If I rented ten TV shows every month, then DStv might have been the logical option, but there's nothing else on Series Channel that I desperately want to see.

As for the Olympic coverage: It's a pity that I can't have 5 dedicated channels, but at least I can still watch the Games.

If your primary interests are rugby, cricket and golf (the traditional "whiteman's sports") then M-Net is sufficient. But soccer fans miss out, as neither M-Net nor CSN shows a lot of SuperSport 3's content. It probably has something to do with the demographic structure of M-Net analogue subscribers.

Channels like ESPN Classic, History Channel, Animal Planet and kykNET would be nice to have, but to me they are not must-haves.

 

[SlinkyMike]

No one mentions the amount of repeated shows.

Movie repeats I can handle - not hassled by that as long as its a sensible / rational number of repeats but to watch reality shows repeated, I mean come on!

What could be more utterly goldfish minded?

Especially (as in most cases) when its a competition that has knockouts and a winner, FFS do people actually sit there and watch as the same contestants get knocked out week after week with an eventual winner... all of which they know already?!?!?!
Do they think its goiina turn out differently 'this time round' or something?

...bloody robbery I tell you.