Why I miss having DStv

Lupus said:
So by the looks of the comments no one really read the story? As it doesn't really sound like the last one, it's just some guy musing on about how he misses laying on the couch chilling and the two streaming services don't meet his needs. He also really misses sports and doesn't want to become an alcoholic.
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Who is this guy and why are his musings being published?
Why is he naming the brand?
 
Lupus said:
If he said he'd hope back on it and wasn't afraid of the price, yes. But he didn't :)
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Ah but he did say he sometimes thinks about going back, but he is "too far gone", implying that there is something wrong with him now after cancelling DStv
 
Baxteen said:
I can forgive the guys from "buisiness tech" for writing an opinion peace like this.

clearly they care about business and not tech, now if this was written by someone sitting in the myBB office, it would be a shame.
if you work at myBB, you should not have a shoddy internet connection.
if you work at myBB it is your DUTY to the readers of your site, to test streaming services.

but mostly, if you work at myBB, you should be able to type into google "watch [sport event] live stream" into google, filter though the chaff, and find a way to get your fix of whatever it is that you watch.

but this is not writen by someone at myBB, its by business tech, who can clearly only copy and paste news articles, not do any real research on the content, beccause if they could do research, they would have exactly 0 issues with leaving DSTV, they would have found ways to solve the problems.

but business tech repeats things from other websites, so they enjoy the repeats that are on DStv, and will probibly say its a good thing because they cant always watch it when it is on the first time. again not an issue when you stream content, because you watch it when YOU want to not when DStv wants you too.

but its ok Dave, we forgive you.
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Just google batmanstreams used to be called Drakulastreams

All sport around the world sorted. The pop-ups in the beginning is a bit annoying but after 30 seconds, close them and Bob's your uncle.
 
Pitbull said:
Just google batmanstreams used to be called Drakulastreams

All sport around the world sorted. The pop-ups in the beginning is a bit annoying but after 30 seconds, close them and Bob's your uncle.
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How's the resolution?
 
why I don't miss DStv.

I moved out of my parents house in 2007. I did not have DSTV, and torrenting had not really become a real option as bandwidth was too expensive in SA.
I had some friends who would download series and we would all share around at University.

in 2010 I started working, the house I was staying at did not have DStv, and it did not have internet. so I got myself a 8ta dongle with the 60 plus 60 yearly data bundle on it.
we started downloading the series we wanted to watch, and watching things at home. There were never any add breaks, so things we much better.
I was however really missing sport.
in 2013 we moved into our own place, and we got ourselves a 2meg telkom line. it was not the best, but it was the only real option due to the area.
at first we were downloading torrents, until a friend told us about Kodi.
at that stage my mother was already using VPN and watching the US Netflix and Hulu. so a 55 year old primary school teacher living on her own could figure it out, so can anyone else.

We got Kodi set up, and we were immidiately stunned at the amount of options we had for series.

In 2014 I started to really miss watching Cricket, something I had done from a young age. I found a useful thread on the myBroadband forum on how to stream supersport though Kodi, but not long after I found it, the stream stopped working, every time the stream would get fixed and posted about in the thread, it would break again.
I started looking for other ways to stream sport. that is when I found the crictfree.tv streaming site. from time to time it gets taken down, but then the url changes but the streams are back up and running.

I watched the 2015 rugby world cup like that. I saw Japan beat South Africa, though a 2 meg line and a web browser.
for the New Zealand game, I was not home, so I did a bit of research and found filmon.tv as an android app.
loaded it on my tab, got a bit of data on a TM sim, and streamed the game while sitting in an airsoft field in Roodepoort.

by the time the cricket world cup rolled around I had found my way around crictfree so well I was watching all sorts of things.
Darts, cricket, rugby, the curry cup, IPL, the CPL, English premiere league soccer, it did not matter. my little 2 meg line and my mini pc was handling it quite well.

From time to time we go to the Fiance's parents house. they still have DSTV, and while hanging around and doing nothing I sometimes put it on. and I have to say the experience is appealing.
the satellite quality is simply not good enough. there is buffering, sometimes lag between sound and video, there is no real way to simply watch 10 episodes of the simpsons in a row. and the ads!
you try and watch a 20 min episode, but your viewing experience gets interupted by DStv advertising itself. litrally selling the service to the people who already own it. because that is where you get new sign ups right?

is it nice to watch the cricket on DStv? no not really, if it rains I have to connect my phone to their wifi, stream the game on my phone and cast it to the TV anyway.

DStv, is simply not worth the money.
paying for a faster line, and a decent capped package, a netflix and a showmax account, and a sky sports account is cheaper, more reliable, and the best part is, because you pay for the service, you dont get ads.








this is an opinion piece written by a complete amateur. not a journalist who gets paid to write advitorials
 
Maybe he should get a life, friends or even a girlfriend.

Problem solved.
 
Someone teach Gareth how to use the internet.

How do you get a job at the MyBB sister company and not know how to use the internet?
 
MyBB strikes again. I am getting sick of this site and their not-so-sublte promotional material masquerading as "opinion pieces".
 
I clicked here just to see who rants how.

Idle thought: Clicking on links is optional. So is posting.

And my name's not Dave.

/dons flamesuit
 
I also miss Dstv for the sport but will I pay for it again? Hell no.

This is my first month without Dstv in years and it's been fine. I got Netflix and Showmax and I doubled my internet speed. Everything's been good so far.
 
anti DSTV brigade out in full force :rolleyes:

I'm happily subscribed to compact as I get my football fix. God knows what I'd do without it.
 
I miss coming home after work or gym, collapsing on the sofa in front of the tele, armed with my remote, and flicking mindlessly through countless channels until I find something ‘watchable’.
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This dude should be introduced to that thing called the internet ....
 
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