iTunes Movies versus DStv BoxOffice

..dstv being cheaper regardless of what apple does for the foreseeable future. itunes rental + data usage bill = waste of time
 
Zenthrax said:
..dstv being cheaper regardless of what apple does for the foreseeable future. itunes rental + data usage bill = waste of time
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DSTV Premium subscriptions are around R700p/m. That's a decent 2mb unshaped, uncapped account, and it has the added benefit of it being, well, the internet too. So on the one hand you get the added bonus of content that is dictated to you with adverts and 90% nonsense channels. On the other, you tailor your monthly viewing to what you want, when you want it, without adverts and without the 90% nonsense channels, in the definition of your choice for all content.

Seems a no-brainer to me. DSTv's only saving grace is its sport and even that is becoming increasingly easy to stream via non-Supersport content providers. In Singapore I streamed all SA rugby and cricket online, as well as all international football and F1. The only thing I'd miss would be ABSA Currie Cup and I'm happy to head off to the pub on the odd occasion to watch my team play...
 
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Yet you will get the majority of the iphone/pad users that don't know what this thing called wifi is and go nuts when they get their data bill ( even if it pops up in the itunes store )
 
Zenthrax said:
Yet you will get the majority of the iphone/pad users that don't know what this thing called wifi is and go nuts when they get their data bill ( even if it pops up in the itunes store )
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There's a 50meg limit to 3G iStore downloads on the iPhone. The android get together is in a different thread so don't let your prejudice hit you in the ass on the way out.
 
Back on topic. For me at least the last seven days have been a seismic shift for online music and app purchases. Said it in the other iTunes Music Store thread; most of us who actually took the time to open a US Store account, buy the vouchers and actually pay for music and movies got flamed for the fraud we were committing... Somehow buying from the US iTunes store was worse than downloading from... other... sources. Couldn't win.
Everyone has been clamouring for a local service and now it's here. Problem is, it's iTunes not Google Play which would give the Apple haters something to crow about. The pricing is good IMO, and better than the US Store in most cases and I'm with DJ... I choose what I want to watch and when I want to watch it. This is a win, end of story. Now, if Apple can just work out a deal with DStv on those SA television series rights...
 
Not sure if this has been missed, but BoxOffice is available to non-subscribers. Premium subscribers just get a R5 discount on new releases (R30->R25) in the online store.

DStv's web interface also allows streaming rather than requiring downloading.

Apple, however, lets you buy a movie (or a license for a movie for you lawyery types out there).
 
Only now you can justify buying an Ipad or Iphone
 
Zenthrax said:
..dstv being cheaper regardless of what apple does for the foreseeable future. itunes rental + data usage bill = waste of time
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Really? Smart analysis... not

What the analysis doesn't show is the enormous Itunes library and the tiny DSTV library
Usually there is very little on Box Office that I want

What Itunes still misses is TV Shows.
I am hoping this gets sorted soon so I can return to SA.
 
greg0205 said:
Back on topic. For me at least the last seven days have been a seismic shift for online music and app purchases. Said it in the other iTunes Music Store thread; most of us who actually took the time to open a US Store account, buy the vouchers and actually pay for music and movies got flamed for the fraud we were committing... Somehow buying from the US iTunes store was worse than downloading from... other... sources. Couldn't win.
Everyone has been clamouring for a local service and now it's here. Problem is, it's iTunes not Google Play which would give the Apple haters something to crow about. The pricing is good IMO, and better than the US Store in most cases and I'm with DJ... I choose what I want to watch and when I want to watch it. This is a win, end of story. Now, if Apple can just work out a deal with DStv on those SA television series rights...
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+1

I think it's incredible that Apple have included South Africa in their iTunes roll-out, first for Music, and now for Movies. Hopefully Series will be next, and then Games in the App Store, which will put us on a par with the rest of the world. I hate having to maintain 2 iTunes accounts to have access to all the apps I want.
 
greg0205 said:
The android get together is in a different thread so don't let your prejudice hit you in the ass on the way out.
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Where did I mention android, for all you know I could be the dying breed that's clinging onto bbm ( well, not so dying in ZA )

Now if I wanted to have a go at it with android I would have mentioned movies/music has been available on play store for quite some time ...that is if you don't have the mental capacity of the average iphone user and know how to circumvent the region-check with one small "connect" touchbutton.

But then again the average android user doesn't pay for 99% of the apps/movies/music/games etc he/she uses and wont have a use for a movie service.
 
Zenthrax said:
Where did I mention android, for all you know I could be the dying breed that's clinging onto bbm ( well, not so dying in ZA )

Now if I wanted to have a go at it with android I would have mentioned movies/music has been available on play store for quite some time ...that is if you don't have the mental capacity of the average iphone user and know how to circumvent the region-check with one small "connect" touchbutton.

But then again the average android user doesn't pay for 99% of the apps/movies/music/games etc he/she uses and wont have a use for a movie service.
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You really can be rather arrogant and with no reason to be either

- So you can circumvent the region check by establishing a VPN or the such like
- With Apple you could circumvent by getting a US Itunes account - Yet that is fraud etc.

Now Apple have launched a 100% legal service you can use it ... or not.
THe Google Service is not 100% legal any more than the US Itunes store.

Careful when you speak of the average Android user - you are saying the the average Android user would rather steal then get something easily at a reasonable price.
I dont agree that Android users are so dishonest. Or any user.
The system has stopped us getting the content we want, in the format we want on the device we want

I contend that most people that pirate are doing it so they can get the digital content that they want that is unavailable through legal channels.
A pirate has to go through effort to pirate.
If the price is reasonable, the acquisition is simple good people will people will pirate a whole lot less.
 
Good to see we finally getting media in SA.

Microsoft's : Windows 8 + Xbox live
Apple : via iTunes

Google play? erm your turn? or you will lose people....
 
I love that they at least have 720p. Monochoice could learn there.

Zenthrax said:
..dstv being cheaper regardless of what apple does for the foreseeable future. itunes rental + data usage bill = waste of time
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Get uncapped.
 
Qwikslver said:
Get uncapped.
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Now if I wanted to have a go at it with the internet I would have mentioned uncapped has been available on mweb for quite some time ...that is if you don't have the mental capacity of the average internet user and know how to circumvent the data cap with one small "sign-up" touchbutton.
 
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