“These nominal adjustments help DStv to ensure that South Africans continue to enjoy the best value and unrivalled access to entertainment, anywhere, anytime, and at the most affordable price,” said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n
DStv’s Access and EasyView monthly subscription fees are in addition to the R899 price tag of buying and installing DStv’s most basic HD decoder.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Openview doesn’t charge a monthly subscription. Instead, it sells its decoders for R699, and installation brings the cost up to approximately R1,499.<\/p>\n
However, the eMedia service is limited regarding the number of channels it offers.<\/p>\n
Openview customers get access to 21 channels, with the list being dominated by E-tv channels like eExtra, eMovies, eMovies Extra, and eToonz.<\/p>\n
It also offers channels like The Home Channel+, Starlife, and several SABC channels.<\/p>\n
The broadcaster added the option for customers to add subscription bouquets for a monthly fee in March 2023.<\/p>\n
Dubbed Ultraview, the company currently offers two add-ons: the Spice Bouquet, which focuses on Hindi and Indian programming, and the Edge (stylised eDGE) Bouquet, which gives customers access to the OUTtv and FUSE channels.<\/p>\n
The Spice Bouquet is priced at R119.99 per month, while the Edge Bouquet costs R74.99.<\/p>\n
DStv’s EasyView gives customers 33 channels, while Access offers 80 channels, with a broader range of content types.<\/p>\n
The table below shows the price and number of channels of Openview HD and DStv’s EasyView and Access packages.<\/p>\n
| DStv and Openview prices and channels<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Package<\/strong><\/td>\n| # of channels\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n | Decoder and installation<\/strong><\/td>\n | Subscription fee<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | DStv<\/strong><\/td>\n | EasyView<\/strong><\/td>\n | 33<\/td>\n | R899 (single-view HD decoder)<\/td>\n | R29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Access<\/strong><\/td>\n | 80<\/td>\n | R899 (single-view HD decoder)<\/td>\n | R129<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Openview<\/strong><\/td>\n | 21<\/td>\n | R1,499<\/td>\n | Free<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n | Affordability comparison<\/h2>\nWhile viewers may be deterred by having to pay R1,499 up front, eMedia’s Openview is more affordable than DStv’s entry-level packages over time, thanks to the lack of a monthly subscription fee.<\/p>\n This is especially true for DStv Access. The monthly fee of R129 for the DStv package quickly brings the accumulative cost of the package higher than Openview within five months.<\/p>\n However, there is a significant trade-off as the DStv Access package provides nearly four times the number of channels offered with Openview.<\/p>\n DStv’s EasyView subscription is more aligned channel-wise with Openview. However, it will still become more expensive within two years.<\/p>\n After one year of paying for DStv EasyView, customers will have spent R1,247 (assuming no increase) \u2014 R252 less than the once-off cost of Openview.<\/p>\n However, the cost of EasyView overtakes that of Openview by month 21.<\/p>\n The chart below shows the accumulative costs of paying DStv’s monthly subscription fees and installation for EasyView and Access to the upfront cost of Openview.<\/p>\n
We compared the price of paying Openview’s once-off decoder installation to the cost of installing a DStv decoder and paying the monthly subscription fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":446678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,19137,21484,51025,35,475,50823],"class_list":["post-521237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-access","tag-dstv-easyview","tag-emedia","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-openview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521253,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521237\/revisions\/521253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
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