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I recently received a letter from multichoice informing me of an increase in their subscription charges. The letter has a breakdown of all the charges i am paying for as follows: DSTV premium bouquet: R222.60 Mnet: R276.40 My question is, how does multichoice justify the subscription for Mnet? Why is it so much more expensive than dstv and it's a single channel? That figure is ridiculous. And mnet isn't all that good anyway. I rarely watch it.
The same movies get repeated a few times on the mnet movies channels and the tv series are repeated on mnet series. As for sports, they are generally simulcast on Supersport. Frankly i could live without mnet.
Mnet is also a locally broadcast channel. How can it be more expensive than the dstv subscription which has a large selection of international as well as local channels. I doubt the mnet subscription is inclusive of mnet movies and mnet series because that is the fee to get mnet on its own without dstv. Is it perhaps possible to take the dstv bouquet without Mnet? Very interesting – I have never yet seen this breakdown on any notification or statement. Do you receive M-Net via the M-Net terrestrial decoder, Bmboy, instead of on DStv channel 101? This is an option available to Premium Bouquet subscribers.
As far as I know, M-Net’s analogue subscription (only) is now R269.00, meaning that it costs R7.40 more to receive M-Net digital as part of the DStv package. If the Premium Bouquet, excluding M-Net, is worth R222.60, it is only R3.60 more expensive than the Compact Bouquet at R219.00! The mind boggles To reap the benefit of receiving channels such as BBC Entertainment, Premium subscribers are obviously being forced to take M-Net as well, so NO, you cannot separate the two. It will be enlightening to see MCA’s response to Bmboy. Very interesting – I have never yet seen this breakdown on any notification or statement.
Do you receive M-Net via the M-Net terrestrial decoder, Bmboy, instead of on DStv channel 101? This is an option available to Premium Bouquet subscribers. As far as I know, M-Net’s analogue subscription (only) is now R269.00, meaning that it costs R7.40 more to receive M-Net digital as part of the DStv package. If the Premium Bouquet, excluding M-Net, is worth R222.60, it is only R3.60 more expensive than the Compact Bouquet at R219.00! The mind boggles To reap the benefit of receiving channels such as BBC Entertainment, Premium subscribers are obviously being forced to take M-Net as well, so NO, you cannot separate the two.
It will be enlightening to see MCA’s response to Bmboy. My mnet signal is split so i receive mnet on my analogue decoder as apposed to receiving it on my pvr decoder. Here is an extract of the letter which i received: R222.60 for the DStv Premium bouquet excl.
M-Net Channel R276.40 for the M-Net Channel for DStv Bouquet R152.80 for the DStv North Indian Add-on These are the prices quoted after the annual price increase. I'm keen too see Multichoices justification for the price of M-Net. I have posted this same topic on My Broadband and someone pointed out that the M-Net subscription is inclusive of M-Net movies, M-Net Series and the Supersport channels. But my argument is that if i were to subscribe to M-Net on its own without DStv i would only receive M-Net yet I would still be paying R276.40:confused: Can someone from multichoice please give us an explanation for this. Hi, I'm attempting to answer your questions, but please look out for a more thorough and comprehensive response:) My question is, how does multichoice justify the subscription for Mnet?
Why is it so much more expensive than dstv and it's a single channel?Mnet is also a locally broadcast channel. How can it be more expensive than the dstv subscription which has a large selection of international as well as local channels Firstly, locally broadcast channels incur much larger costs that internationally broadcast channels, primarily due to the fact that international channels are sold to multiple pay television providers across the world, and that mitigates the costs of running the channel. It all boils down to scalability. If, for example, the Discovery Channel was only broadcast in one country, the cost of adding that channel to a bouquet would be astronomical. Secondly, MNet shows premiere series and movies.
These movies and series cost a pretty packet, and MNet packages all the content into one slick channel. Is it perhaps possible to take the dstv bouquet without Mnet? Unfortunately not. MNet forms part ot the DStv Premium bouquet offering. However, there are lower tiered bouquet options like DStv Compact or DStv Select which exclude MNet, but also exclude some of the channel options that exist on DStv Premium.
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I still don't understand how M-Net can be significantly more expensive than the DStv subscription. Are you saying that it is cheaper to broadcast the combinations of channels offered on the Dstv bouquet as apposed to broadcasting M-Net alone?
I understand when you say that the cost of broadcasting international channels is spread across the world, take for example channels like Supersport? Surly that costs a small fortune especially for broadcasting rights of live sport. And how is it that the DStv compact bouquet subscription be marginally diffirent compared to the premium subscription excluding M-Net?
With a large number of premium channels ommited from the bouquet, how can the subscription be a mere R7 cheaper? To me that suggests that those premium channels which have been ommitted are worth R7 per capita of your subscribers???? And the remaining not so premium channels cost R219 per subscription to broadcast???? Also how true is it that the cost of the M-Net subscription is inclusive of M-Net Series and M-Net Movies? I still don't understand how M-Net can be significantly more expensive than the DStv subscription.
Are you saying that it is cheaper to broadcast the combinations of channels offered on the Dstv bouquet as apposed to broadcasting M-Net alone? I understand when you say that the cost of broadcasting international channels is spread across the world, take for example channels like Supersport? Surly that costs a small fortune especially for broadcasting rights of live sport. And how is it that the DStv compact bouquet subscription be marginally diffirent compared to the premium subscription excluding M-Net? With a large number of premium channels ommited from the bouquet, how can the subscription be a mere R7 cheaper? To me that suggests that those premium channels which have been ommitted are worth R7 per capita of your subscribers????
And the remaining not so premium channels cost R219 per subscription to broadcast???? Also how true is it that the cost of the M-Net subscription is inclusive of M-Net Series and M-Net Movies?
Entering the minefield of how costs relate to charges are you! The truth is that most of the time there is no defendable relationship between costs and charges, and the only thing that truly focusses the 'organisational mind' is true competition. It is only then that attempts are made to ensure that charges are cost-related, that fixed costs are separated from variable costs, and that fixed costs are proportionally allocated according to a well defined method or model. Entering the minefield of how costs relate to charges are you! The truth is that most of the time there is no defendable relationship between costs and charges, and the only thing that truly focusses the 'organisational mind' is true competition. It is only then that attempts are made to ensure that charges are cost-related, that fixed costs are separated from variable costs, and that fixed costs are proportionally allocated according to a well defined method or model.
Ok i kinda get what you are saying. But suppose the cost factor were isolated, how does one justify the difference in subscription charges between the compact and premium bouquet?
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From a consumers perspective it doesn't make sense. But i suppose consumers do not have a choice because the premium bouquet has to include M-Net which pushes the cost up to R499pm. Entering the minefield of how costs relate to charges are you!
The truth is that most of the time there is no defendable relationship between costs and charges. Quite correct. People think that cost determines price. In fact, it's the other way around: price determines cost (i.e. How much you can sell it for AKA what-the-market-will-bear, determines how much you are willing to spend to create the product/service.and the only thing that truly focusses the 'organisational mind' is true competition. It is pretty straight forward. You are paying for what is on the channel, and not the fact it is just one channel Not all content shown costs the same.
M-Net, just like any other pay broadcaster pays the most loot towards live sport, and first-run movies. The content on M-Net is a combination of all the above. This is why on the compact and select bouquets there is not a lot of sport (except Soccer) or first-run movies.
On the premium bouquet, you get the same content repeated on the MM and SS channels, but as a subscriber you have paid your dues to watch that content, whether it be spread across one channel (MNet terrestrial) or multiple channels on DStv. As everybody knows that Mnet next yr or so, is switching to digital signal, phasing out the analogue connection, all i ever wonder about is what MC would do in terms of the bouquet, since those who have the Mnet decoder only pay R269.00, and now with the full intergration of Mnet to Dstv. The current subscribers of Mnet decoders, will they be forced to take the full premium package, or there will be a new introduced bouquet that will cater for Mnet and CSN as the decoder offers.
Any1 with any idea, as to how would this eventually works out, cause it wont be fair, to phase out the decoders and force the susbcribers to take Premium, and all they ever wanted was MNET. @Maplayer, I'm not sure what you are getting.
With the switch to digital, people with MNet only via terrestrial analogue MNet decoder will need to get a terrestrial digital MNet decoder. This will be completely separate from DSTV. This is actually mean that MNet might be able to decrease the cost of MNet as all the people with cracked decoders will no longer be able to get MNet for free and will either need to give up MNet, move to Digital MNet and start paying or move to DSTV premium. All im ever trying to say is that, Ppl with Mnet Decoder only receive two channels 1) Mnet 2) CSN via terrestrial analogue, when i went to MC agents, one of the consultants there said. Mnet will no longer be available on terrestrial analogue, and meaning that in future for those who stil uses those decoder, will have to get dstv installed in their house for them to receive Mnet. Aluding from what has been said in the previous posts, waas that Mnet makes up 56% of dstv subscription for those with Premium Package. So then all those ppl who are fans on just Mnet who will be getting dstv at their homes, with the terrestrial analogue being phased out, how would MC cater for these people who were only happy to continue paying R269.00 for their Mnet & CSN.
While few months back i made a call to MC Agents and asked them: whether it is possible to the the premium package without Mnet and said NO NO NO. Are these people will be force to receive the Premium package or would there be another bouquet created for such people who had mnet on terrestrial analogue??????
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