MultiChoice stiffs Showmax's South African subscribers on House of the Dragon

[Jan]

MultiChoice snubs Showmax subscribers in South Africa

While Showmax has started streaming HBO's hit Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon in several African countries, South Africans have nowhere to watch the show legally other than DStv Premium.

The MultiChoice-owned streaming service put the first episode of House of the Dragon on Showmax in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria on 24 August 2022, two days after it premiered on DStv.

 

[OhYeah84]

I'm sorry, but are we meant to feel sympathetic to a company like this? When they come out and moan they're losing business and then do this to their South African fan base? Not a chance...they deserve to get screwed as much as they're screwing their subscribers!
How ludicrous and utterly pathetic can you get.

 

[Nerfherder]

Bad choice.

Not the first mistake by a long shot but they should not still be making this error.

 

[deesef]

I don't expect many people will sign up for a premium account @R900pm just to watch 1 series? What were they thinking

 

[LazyLion]

South Africans have nowhere to watch the show legally other than DStv Premium.

 

[supersunbird]

And they wonder why viewership was so low?

 

[azportalza]

fmovies.to

 

[ThinkCentre]

Dear DSTV
Please have coitus with yourself if you think I am funding you with such excruciating amounts of funds.
Kind regards

 

[SilverCode]

It’s unlikely that limiting the show to DStv Premium would draw many additional subscribers to the pay-TV service.

And I'm sure the audience who GoT appeals to are more than capable of finding "other ways" to watch it.

I don't expect many people will sign up for a premium account @R900pm just to watch 1 series? What were they thinking

They probably looked at how people sign up to streaming services for 1-2 months to watch a new series and then cancel. In their warped view they were hoping for the same, not realising it is R99 to sign up to a streaming service, not R900.

 

[Spizz]

Gotta love a 500Mbps fibre line and the latest 4k/Dolby episode on a flash drive and plugged in the TV in a few minutes.

Fsck you Mulitchoice.

 

[Enzo Matrix]

Gotta love a 500Mbps fibre line and the latest 4k/Dolby episode on a flash drive and plugged in the TV in a few minutes.

Fsck you Mulitchoice.

Its called plex...

 

[Rickster]

Literally Monochoice.

 

[Spizz]

Its called plex...

It is literally the only thing I download these days. Stream everything else.

 

[Easter Bunny]

nowhere to watch the show legally

 

[Syphonx]

Even if it was on Showmax, it wouldn't be 4k HDR.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

on a flash drive and plugged in the TV in a few minutes.

Philistine

What is this, the past!?

 

[Baise]

lol, People complaining about a TV series on a Sports Subscription Platform ..

 

[OhYeah84]

lol, People complaining about a TV series on a Sports Subscription Platform ..

Not the TV series per se, but the actual platform itself.

 

[Brian_G]

They sure know how to manipulate, been doing it for too many decades. Keeps hurting them but on they go.

lol, People complaining about a TV series on a Sports Subscription Platform ..

You do know that Showmax's sports subs is just one of their products?

 

[OhYeah84]

They sure know how to manipulate, been doing it for too many decades. Keeps hurting them but on they go.


You do know that Showmax's sports subs is just one of their products?

I think the actual complaints went over the top there. People are complaining about the DStv platform and their scheistering of people, and he thought it was about the series!