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Pay-TV competition failure
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telkomreallysux
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MultiChoice has also previously said that it is not willing to share its decoder with new entrants, which means migrating from MultiChoice to a new pay-TV provider will incur additional hardware costs.
Internet TV won't be an option for a long time in this country unless people are prepared to spend a fortune downloading content. Considering the difficulty of getting a land line and the theft of copper, Cable TV isn't an option.
How the hell do they expect this 'competion' to deliver content? If they choose satellite, they will have to convince MC subscribers to toss the cost of a decoder in the toilet.
MC must have almost saturated the income segment that can afford DSTV, so they can only exist by screwing us with price increases and repeats.
I spent 8 years in the US, and I can assure everyone that if Hallmark, Discovery, Nat Geographic .... repeated shows like MC does, they wouldn't last a year. MC obviously bought a few seasons of those channels, and has been mixing up the programs and repeating them. I think the Da Vinci's Inquest has been running back to back repeats for over a year, to name one example.
MC/naspers listed in 1994. They have been protected from competition for too long, not to have interested parties in government. We are supposed to believe the SABC lost the PSL to MC and it was business as usual, my @ss.
Internet TV won't be an option for a long time in this country unless people are prepared to spend a fortune downloading content. Considering the difficulty of getting a land line and the theft of copper, Cable TV isn't an option.
How the hell do they expect this 'competion' to deliver content? If they choose satellite, they will have to convince MC subscribers to toss the cost of a decoder in the toilet.
MC must have almost saturated the income segment that can afford DSTV, so they can only exist by screwing us with price increases and repeats.
I spent 8 years in the US, and I can assure everyone that if Hallmark, Discovery, Nat Geographic .... repeated shows like MC does, they wouldn't last a year. MC obviously bought a few seasons of those channels, and has been mixing up the programs and repeating them. I think the Da Vinci's Inquest has been running back to back repeats for over a year, to name one example.
MC/naspers listed in 1994. They have been protected from competition for too long, not to have interested parties in government. We are supposed to believe the SABC lost the PSL to MC and it was business as usual, my @ss.
bex.cpt
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I have a television set that is connected to a Divx player and NOTHING else. I get my news from NEWS24 (Iphone App Store cost R0.00). I have happy without SABC, ETV & DSTV. I spent 2008 vegging infront of DSTV & came to the conclution that +R6000 is a total waste of money and time.
ICASA. SABC. ETV & DSTV can rot in he'll for all I care. I download the latest movies for free so I keep current with movies
ICASA. SABC. ETV & DSTV can rot in he'll for all I care. I download the latest movies for free so I keep current with movies