On Digital Media Top TV channels explained

ToxicBunny said:
What worries me about this company is that in first 5 channels they list, 4 of them are Gospel..

I don't want religious BS to be the thing that they push... They can be a "Christian" company for all that I care.. but they must remove the religious channels into their own "bouquet"
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lol
And Nolliwood/Bollywood.

It sounds like 'dros' to me!
 
I looked at MGM asia's website and if that's anything to go buy then it will be the SET and Hallmark of Top TV! Though I'm still tempted to move (for 3 Discovery Channels @ R249 then I'm there!)
 
I dont think its fair to try and compare ODM to Nochoise.

For people who never had DSTV, ODM is a great offer.

I only had MNet @ R280/month.

Now I can get aaaaaaaaallllllll this for just R249................. whoooo hooooo. Not gonna miss Mnet one small bit.
 
Well Done ODM! Now for that sports channel to get hold of the Super 14, Tri Nations and maybe the Rugby World Cup, that would be awesome!
 
What A Load of Rubbish...I would not pay a cent to watch they crap.
 
Channels

From the ODM web site:

TopTV will offer subscribers seven different pricing options ranging from R99 to R249 per month. Channels on offer include those created specifically by TopTV with content sourced both locally and internationally, including Top Movies, Top One, Top Gospel and Top Crime, as well as a range of highly sought-after international channels from outside suppliers. Nine locally developed channels will offer audiences a mix of local and international flavours. Says Gugu Sibeko, ODM’s GM of Local Channels: “Under the Top TV brand we are able to combine quality international programming with popular local shows, creating channels with South African appeal.”
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How is this different to bouquets?

I thought from a previous article on here that customers would be able to choose channels i.e.:

Pay a basic fee, say for connection and then a certain amount per channel chosen to a max of R249....

My bad

So no matter now what you choose, you may/will end up with something you do not want???

I am not exited anymore
 
This isn't great. DSTV is still a far better choice. Anyway to have DSTV and some of these channels? Most of the channels on there a crock of ****.
 
PPJ said:
From the ODM web site:



How is this different to bouquets?

I thought from a previous article on here that customers would be able to choose channels i.e.:

Pay a basic fee, say for connection and then a certain amount per channel chosen to a max of R249....

My bad

So no matter now what you choose, you may/will end up with something you do not want???

I am not exited anymore
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I think there's way too much admin in allowing users to choose thier own channels... think about it. if you had as little as 100 customers, each having a different choice of channels. To take it further, people could also change thier minds too frequently, today they want 1 channel, the next they want another. Now that's just for 100 clients... they're really not going to have that few.

What they're doing here is creating more of a "choice" by having more "choice" than NOCHOICE. If that makes sense.
 
It's not really ODM's choice. The suppliers force them to bundle the "unwanted" channels along with the more popular channels. It is their way of getting funding for the less popular channels.

It is a catch 22 situation. Not everybody likes the less popular channels, but there is still some demand for them, and they add a little bit of value to the entire bundle. So if you get rid of them you lose a certain amount of subscribers, if you carry them as is, not everybody wants them and the income is not sufficient to justify them. The solution... bundle them along with more popular channels and those popular channels then subsides them. Everybody wins with minimal fuss.

It's like all the extra crap that Mweb offers on their website (the news, weather, competitions, school homework stuff, etc.) not all of us make use of it, but they add value to the entire offering and are all subsidized by our purchases.

Same with SABC. You don't watch all the programs on SABC (well, some of us don't watch any programs on SABC, but bear with me :p)... some of the programs on the Free to Air channels are crap. But they are bundled with and subsidized by the more popular channels.

This bundling and cross subsidisation happens in very many industries. It is a fact of life. If they didn't do it, there would be 50% less channels overall and that result would then appeal to 50% less people.
 
Im in

R250 I'm sooo kicking dstv's ass. Thank G there are no sport channels something I am not willing to pay for at all. Ill give it a go as long as the documentary channels are good. It the only reason I have Pay TV but paying nearly 600 bucks for DSTV is a grudge purchase for documentaries only.

Do they have a PVR out already?
 
nothing explained at all. for instance, whhat fox entertainment and showtime feed do we get? that would be an explanation. all we have here is a description of what they advertise the channels to be.

and in the other thread we have many pages where the same info is pasted. it is not exactly news now.
 
Velenoso said:
Most of the channels on there a crock of ****.
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The same can be said for DStv. I pay R 500+ and the only channels I ever watch are MNet, Series, Action and maybe one or two of the movies channels (and my gf watches TSN and E!).
 
No Nat Geo / Wild , History channel , SciFi ? :/
 
Velenoso said:
This isn't great. DSTV is still a far better choice. Anyway to have DSTV and some of these channels? Most of the channels on there a crock of ****.
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i know that MC is a better choice, but they have not showed any improvement when it comes to customer requests. So we have to apply pressure on them by moving to ODM so that they could pick up their socks.
 
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