Multichoice plays hardball

Slooth said:
Personally I think they're only trying to save on PVR sales. With a PC and the electronic program guide the only thing you cannot do is have two channels running at the same time. Recording etc can be handled by the Media Center.
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I think that the saddest fact of all is that most people who have Media Center PC, etc. also have MC PVRs.

I use my MCE PC for a whole lot more than just watching DSTV programs. I use it to watch DVDs, listen to music (legally owned music, that is), enjoy funny videos sent via e-mail, view photos taken with my own camera, listen to FM Radio. I do all of this in my living room together with my family using one single remote.

The point I'm trying to make is that I like the fact that I can do all of this with a single device. MCs PVR CAN NOT do it all. In fact, it can do only one of these functions and not that well either.
While I was using Colin’s EPG Data it was easy for me to select the programs I wanted to record and I ended up recording a lot more programs to watch over weekends for when I had the time to watch them. Now, without the EPG, I’ve only scheduled the 3 programs I follow to record and I don’t watch anything else.

My exposure to advertising has gone down dramatically (maybe not such a bad thing :D).

MC knows that their product does not compete and is doing everything they can to protect their crappy service. They are doing exactly what every other monopoly in this country is doing.
 
Multichoice Suck, trying to prevent piracy...what bull****. You can still record stuff using media center's just by typing in the time...

I can't wait for the competition...

I think everyone with an media center, etc. should 'scrap' the multichoice server's at the same time on a continual basis, see if they like there servers being hammered continually.
 
This is an anti-competitive business practice... and they can be taken for it. /me gets started to reverse engineering their openTV sh1te and publish it on the net.
 
Maybe we should also send the petition to the various channels when its complete.
 
i'll do that erpg extraction thing if i knew how. give me the info and i'll host it somewhere outside the country.

They can go stuff themselves
 
DblD said:
Other than sports, that by the way is broadcast in shocking picture quality, there is NOTHING worth my 550 rands. And hopefully soon you will learn that lesson by lousing 50% of your subscriber base..
SAY NO TO DstV
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Absolutely. On a normal small screen, the high compression is still tolerable, but as soon as you plug in a plasma or LCD, the picture quality is shocking.
If Telkom media or whoever gives us better picture quality, I will cancel without hesitation.

An NO, I am NOT upgrading to some Deluxe HD bouquet next year just to get decent picture quality.
 
Maybe DSTV staff have not discovered torrents yet, otherwise they would realize that nobody is gonna pirate a bloody 5-year old Mythbuster reRun.
 
HavocXphere said:
Maybe DSTV staff have not discovered torrents yet, otherwise they would realize that nobody is gonna pirate a bloody 5-year old Mythbuster reRun.
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Thats true... and the torrent quality is usually better than MultiBlows anyways.
 
They obviously confuse "content" with "information about content".

But I think (and this is my personal opinion) that they suffer from over-zealous copyright lawyers....:rolleyes:

A few years ago I was the recipient of a cease and desist attack from Multichoice (nothing to do with Vodacom, btw.), because I had a company whose name they felt could be confused with one of their trademarks. Eventually I changed the name although I was pretty comfortable that they had no case, but it was not worth the time and money.

They keep these copyright lawyers on retainer and these guys find someone to sue every now and then to ensure they don't loose their nice fat retainers.
 
the sad thing is... they did very little to stop us... all that fuss, all i did was scrap the guide myself, but within 2days or so boom, the community steps forward, and a guide if hosted elsewhere.

all they achieved was p!ssing off a few of their tech swavy PAYING subscribers.
 
Sounds like Telkom-media,, oh wait we can look forward to that too soon.


Where is this petition mentioned?
 
Thing is they'll piss us all off...and we'll take it.

Thats the current mentallity in SA.
 
Multichoice are a bunch of twits for this. A lot of us have MythTV setups that require this information. We already pay their stupid prices for the programs now they are getting lame about this?

Sis multichoice execs.
 
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