Mnet digital migration

[justasking]

Hi
Anyone who still was on old Mnet analogue package and migrated to Mnet digital? My analog decoder 'broke' and i was told i had to migrate to digital Hd decoder with dish . Took them weeks to allocate this to an installer as you canot get your own installer for this.
This package worked for me as Mnet and SA rugby and cricket was all i realy needed.
My real question is- it seems i now got a alternate sport channel namely something called CSN, which seems undefined ito what sport wil be broadcasted, whereas i had Premium SS1. The package is also now called something like MtnGo, Anyone who migrated, experience or can comment?

The original communication implied merely migration with same or more channels.

 

[Foxhound5366]

0.o This is confusing on so many levels.

I'm guessing you were staying on the old Mnet analogue package because it was cheaper than getting a modern DSTV decoder with a Premium subscription, right?

It sounds like all that's happened is that Mnet finally closed the loophole you'd been enjoying. Mnet has been on DSTV rather than a separate decoder for what ... 20 years?

What's confusing is the 'MtnGo' product, which doesn't come up at all online (although I see a news report about MTN experimenting with digital television).

Assuming your new digital decoder is a DSTV one, all you have to do is phone up Multichoice and ask for your package to be upgraded to Premium (which is eye-wateringly expensive but the only thing that keeps the monopoly going).

 

[Boris Becker]

@OP, a better place to ask this question would be the forum on the DSTV website. Else, any forums frequented by pensioners (if any), cos they're the only ones on analog mnet

 

[AdrianR]

I've seen something like that. An aerial with a logo on it that says GOtv and it has the MultiChoice rainbow.

Are you sure the channel's name is not spelled "MntGo"? That would make sense - Mnet Go.

The CSN channel was on analogue too, it stands for Community Services Network, and was an additional analogue M-Net channel since some time in the 1990's I think. It's on DStv too last I checked, very high up, like channel nine hundred and something.

It was mainly broadcast in city areas, and was a rare channel over most of South Africa.

CSN was a blend of SuperSport and what was called EastNet. Don't know if it's still this. It was basically just another channel which showed stuff M-Net didn't have space for.

 

[jcheek]

Slight necro post, but it's relevant ...

I'm one of those die-hards still using the old M-Net analogue package - M-Net plus CSN. Will never go the DStv route.

I'm in Faerie Glen (Pretoria East) and to date I've been receiving the best (as in 'least bad') analogue M-Net signal from the Sentech transmitter on the Menlo Park hill, with which I have reasonably good line of sight (about 4km). Over the last few years the signal quality seems to have deteriorated a lot, to the point where the signal is marginal for the decoder to be able to decrypt it. I can also get signal from the big Gelukskroon tower up on the Magaliesberg ridge out near Hartbeespoort dam, which is some 34km away - a weaker and even more marginal signal.

From the press releases (like this one in Feb 2016), we gather that the carrier is indeed GOtv and from the GOtv coverage map, it seems that the transmitter they use for Pretoria is also on the Gelukskroon mast :



... which doesn't bode well for signal strength!

I got a call from someone at MNet a few weeks ago outlining the migration offer, and a call from a local installer a few days ago. Seems like the deal for existing subscribers is a 'free' decoder (digital STB), subscription to the same 2 channels at the same price, antenna (they're calling it a 'dish', but I'm sure it must be a standard grid antenna) and R100 installation fee.

I haven't yet decided if I will go for it, or whether I will can M-Net for good, but it would be useful to understand the offering and get some feedback on the migration success or otherwise.

Has anyone in the Pretoria area - or anywhere else - been through the process already ? How did it work out ?

 

[Venomous]

It will probably be a satellite dish.... Requires wall or roof mounting.

Multichoice is probably trying really hard to bin analogue.

So effectively they are attempting to move you to dstv

 

[Venomous]

And while they are at it...

The free decoder probably means a 24 month contract lock-in.

 

[brianj74]

I got a dish, search my posts. Same price, no contract, some confusion about channels but 902 for mnet and 490 for csn.

 

[jcheek]

I got a dish, search my posts. Same price, no contract, some confusion about channels but 902 for mnet and 490 for csn.

Aaaah, thanks.

For those that are interested, the relevant thread is over here.