MultiChoice says Vidi will suffer

[Bona Botse]

MultiChoice says their profits will suffer thanks to Vidi.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

They must be really bother or feel threatened by Vidi, if they have gone and make a public statement like this.

 

[bwana]

I would cancel DSTV if it weren't for those in the household who watch it. I have a dozen or so sports channels (and entertainment, documentary, movie, lifestyle etc. channels) I can stream over XBMC thanks to NTV. BBC iPlayer also has great stuff.

Do you use Netflix or Hulu?

I use Netflix and sky's NowTV. Plenty of adverts on that but they're all UK ones.

I watch plenty of sports live so I've got absolutely no interest watching it on the tv.

 

[Bryn]

I use Netflix and sky's NowTV. Plenty of adverts on that but they're all UK ones.

I watch plenty of sports live so I've got absolutely no interest watching it on the tv.

NowTV costs a fortune man. £19.99pm for sport, £9.99pm for movies, £6.99pm for a handful of entertainment channels and it only works with Roku and Playstations.

 

[bwana]

NowTV costs a fortune man. £19.99pm for sport, £9.99pm for movies, £6.99pm for a handful of entertainment channels and it only works with Roku and Playstations.

I'm paying £5.99p/m for 11 live movie channels + back catalogue and £6.99 (just went up a pound I see) for 13 live (and an extensive back catalogue) entertainment channels. Quite happy to pay that. They kids get their disney and nickelodeon and I get my channels. While I agree the sports channels are pricy I don't watch them (I go to just about every live sports event in PE) so that's not an issue for me.

We have two roku boxes, a nowtv box (which only cost £10!) as well as a media computer and countless ipads, etc. In fact we have too many NowTV compatible devices!

 

[Bryn]

I'm paying £5.99p/m for 11 live movie channels + back catalogue and £6.99 (just went up a pound I see) for 13 live (and an extensive back catalogue) entertainment channels. Quite happy to pay that. They kids get their disney and nickelodeon and I get my channels. While I agree the sports channels are pricy I don't watch them (I go to just about every live sports event in PE) so that's not an issue for me.

We have two roku boxes, a nowtv box (which only cost £10!) as well as a media computer and countless ipads, etc. In fact we have too many NowTV compatible devices!

What's the point of going to live sports if you have no context for the game? If you watch no sport on TV then you'll never know what's going on. All the F1, all the golf, 99% of the cricket, 99% of the golf, 99% of the rugby, all European football, 99% of the PSL etc.

My NTV subscription gives me the following channels for €14.49 a month:

Sports
At The Races
Box Nation
British Eurosport
British Eurosports 2
BT Sports 1
BT Sports 2
ESPN
Racing UK
Setanta Ireland
Setanta Sports 1
Sky Sports 1
Sky Sports 2
Sky Sports 3
Sky Sports 4
Sky Sports 5
Sky Sports F1
Sky Sports News
Sky Sports News backup

Entertainment
5 Star
5 USA
Alibi
BBC 1 HD
BBC 2 HD
BBC Four
BBC One
BBC Three
BBC Two
Channel 4
Channel 4 HD
Channel 5
Channel TV
Comedy Central
Dave
Drama
E entertainment
E4
Fox
Gold
HBO HD
ITV 1
ITV 1 HD
ITV 2
ITV 3
ITV 4
ITV Be
More 4
MTV
Pick
Really
Sky 1
Sky 2
Sky Arts 1
Sky Atlantic
TLC
Ulster TV
Watch

Documentaries
Animal Planet
Crime and Investigation
Discovery Channel
Discovery History
Discovery Science
Discovery Turbo
Eden
H2
History UK
Nat Geo Channel UK
Nat Geo Wild UK
Quest
Sky Arts 2
Yesterday

Movies
CBS Drama
Film 4
Movies4Men
Sky Action
Sky Comedy
Sky Drama
Sky Family
Sky Premiere
Sky Sci-Fi and Horror
Sky Thriller
TCM

News
Al Jazeera English
BBC News
CNBC
CNN
Euronews
Fox News
Sky News

Lifestyle
Discovery Home and Health
Good Food
Home
Sky Living

Kids
Cartoonito
CBBC
CBeebies
Nick Jr
Nickelodeon

Music
VH1
Viva

There's a tier above that option for €24.95pm that has even more.

 

[bwana]

What's the point of going to live sports if you have no context for the game? If you watch no sport on TV then you'll never know what's going on. All the F1, all the golf, 99% of the cricket, 99% of the golf, 99% of the rugby, all European football, 99% of the PSL etc.

Context? It's rugby, not Generations. The Kings play, the Kings lose (generally) - my watching their away matches isn't going to change that.

 

[quiksilver]

Geez, I've heard more about Vidi from Multichoice articles than from Vidi's own advertising.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" - William Shakespeare 1602