MultiChoice sabotaged older PVRs ?

[Sonic2k]

Yeah I'm still watching my HD football in SD via RCA cables because I refuse to pay R550 to have my decoder's HDMI port 'fixed' (i.e. swap the entire decoder out).

...and Makro was selling them R979 three weeks ago

Ja, HDMI is integrated into the main CPU so no chance of fixing that. Gooi weg, kry nuwe een!

 

[Smurfatefrog]

Of course they make money off it, and they make more money off the extra features the newer decoders have such as the pvr access fee and box office movie rentals. And I'm sure they profit from repair costs as well.

As mentioned, I was referring to decoder sales, your points about PVR access fee & box office are not valid either though, this thread is about a PVR giving hassles, so those features are on all PVRs...