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Vuvuzella

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Anyone here subscribed to PushPlay? (http://www.pushplay.co.za/)

I'm considering losing the DSTV account... It's either that or buy a PVR - which is like R2000 for the box, R1000 for the dish install, and then an extra R50 a month... And I hardly watch anything.

If only we had Netflix
 
I used them for about a year, initially everything worked & I managed a turn-around of 3 discs between 2-4 times a month. Thought it was good value for money.

Then the post office decided they cannot place the disks in my post box anymore which meant I had to collect during office hours. Not convenient for me.
Then lead times started increasing from around once a week to some months only once a month, they blamed the post office.
Then they closed the drop-box near to me which meant I had to return the disks via mail (extra expenses & visits to post office again).
They eventually suspended deliving to Gauteng altogether while investigating the post office delivery problems. Starting to see the pattern?
By the time they started up in Gauteng again I've requested cancellation - the hasstles outweighed the convenience & I had gotten ADSL by then.

Pros: They have a good selection - my taste in movies is decidedly non-mainstream which they cater for much better than local video shops.
Cons: They have no control over sequence of series or multiple disc sets - what's the use of getting disc 2/2 first, then the 1st disc only 2 months down the line?

Apparently they still work well in CT (another one for the DA!!) and some large companies/corporate parks in Gauteng where they have like a 'delivery club'. I know their business depends largely on the post office which is run by incompetent fools, and they tried, but as a customer the overall experience in Gauteng started off well but turned nasty.

Pity, but they get no recommendation from me.
 
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Well if they can't deliver to my door then forget it. I hate the post office.

Thanks for the thorough reply, it really gives me a good idea of the service. I may still try the free trial period, but there is no way I am picking things up at the post office.

Now that you have an ASDL line do you download stuff and watch on your PC? Do you hook it up to your TV and watch there? (if I may ask)
I have quite a few things on my Mac but have not as yet managed to transfer anything to my Xbox (and don't yet have a TV with a USB - but that's my next move). Do you watch everything on your 'small' screen - I've been doing this and find it so exclusionary. I'll be watching a show on my Mac and chuckling away while my husband every now and again asks what I am watching and why its funny.
 
HD PVR is (or was?) R1,499 recently. Makro? That means there have been 2 specials in the space of a month (was R1,699 I think at Hifi Corp recently). So wait around for HD PVR, or just pay the R1,999 - worth it. :D
 
Vuvuzella said:
Well if they can't deliver to my door then forget it. I hate the post office.

Thanks for the thorough reply, it really gives me a good idea of the service. I may still try the free trial period, but there is no way I am picking things up at the post office.

Now that you have an ASDL line do you download stuff and watch on your PC? Do you hook it up to your TV and watch there? (if I may ask)
I have quite a few things on my Mac but have not as yet managed to transfer anything to my Xbox (and don't yet have a TV with a USB - but that's my next move). Do you watch everything on your 'small' screen - I've been doing this and find it so exclusionary. I'll be watching a show on my Mac and chuckling away while my husband every now and again asks what I am watching and why its funny.
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why dont u use your xbox to watch the video files?
 
isie said:
why dont u use your xbox to watch the video files?
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Must try different things, but had issues because Xbox won't sync nicely with my Mac - but I have not tried that much to be honest - haven't burned DVDs for example and played them through Xbox. Thought it might be easier to just buy the right cable and plug my mac straight into the TV.
 
stevenv said:
If only we had decent internet that didn't cost an arm and a leg.
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I must admit though my Unshaped, Uncapped Axxess ADSL really isn't bad. If I consider that I use it for work and entertainment, 24/7... it's a bargain when you compare to the value I get out of DSTV every month. Sounds like your OpenWeb Gold is also pretty decent. R318pm? Compared to nearly R600 for DSTV?
 
Vuvuzella said:
Must try different things, but had issues because Xbox won't sync nicely with my Mac - but I have not tried that much to be honest - haven't burned DVDs for example and played them through Xbox. Thought it might be easier to just buy the right cable and plug my mac straight into the TV.
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just copy your divx movies to a flash disk or portable hdd (formated in fat32) it will play off that iuse t all the time
 
isie said:
just copy your divx movies to a flash disk or portable hdd (formated in fat32) it will play off that iuse t all the time
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Thanks - going to try that tonight. I didn't think of just using a flash disk. So simple. Tried my portable HDD in the past but didn't work because it isn't fat32. Will use my flash drive. Thanks.
 
Vuvuzella said:
Thanks - going to try that tonight. I didn't think of just using a flash disk. So simple. Tried my portable HDD in the past but didn't work because it isn't fat32. Will use my flash drive. Thanks.
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onemore thing, not sure if they fixed this yet but if you havea rsa xbox live profile it wont downlod thedivx codec, u need a us or uk one so u migt have to create one to get the codec
 
evilstebunny said:
I used them for about a year, initially everything worked & I managed a turn-around of 3 discs between 2-4 times a month. Thought it was good value for money.

Then the post office decided they cannot place the disks in my post box anymore which meant I had to collect during office hours. Not convenient for me.
Then lead times started increasing from around once a week to some months only once a month, they blamed the post office.
Then they closed the drop-box near to me which meant I had to return the disks via mail (extra expenses & visits to post office again).
They eventually suspended deliving to Gauteng altogether while investigating the post office delivery problems. Starting to see the pattern?
By the time they started up in Gauteng again I've requested cancellation - the hasstles outweighed the convenience & I had gotten ADSL by then.

Pros: They have a good selection - my taste in movies is decidedly non-mainstream which they cater for much better than local video shops.
Cons: They have no control over sequence of series or multiple disc sets - what's the use of getting disc 2/2 first, then the 1st disc only 2 months down the line?

Apparently they still work well in CT (another one for the DA!!) and some large companies/corporate parks in Gauteng where they have like a 'delivery club'. I know their business depends largely on the post office which is run by incompetent fools, and they tried, but as a customer the overall experience in Gauteng started off well but turned nasty.

Pity, but they get no recommendation from me.
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I'm in Cape Town and didn't have great experience with them. It was delivered to my postbox in my complex fine for a while, and the dropbox was at a Spar I pass daily. But the order of receiving movies was silly, you didn't get to choose what you wanted to watch now; just make a list of what you'd like to watch and you get sent something random from that list. Then there were post office issues where I wasn't receiving anything for a while, which made it pointless as I was paying and not getting anything in return.

Another HUGE issue for me was the fact that they don't have a phone number or email address or any other contact details on their website. It was all just by correspondence on the form on the website. I need to know there is someone I can call when things are not going well when you have my credit card details, which wasn't the case here.

I cancelled the service less than a month after starting up with it.
 
Thanks Imagine, think I'll give it a skip.

Thanks isie, luckily I think I signed up for a UK profile long ago and have never got an SA one...
 
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