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| pay tv is not a rip off. i have had it since 2007 and since then, normal tv has gotten worse than ever. who would want to see corey enter the big brother house. if you ask me, pay tv is worth it. foxtel has a greater range of programming, and sure it is a lot of reruns. but that is only on entertainment channels (are there reruns of the news?). another thing, with movies on normal tv, if a movie comes out on dvd in 2005, you have to wait until about 2007/8 to watch it. where as on foxtel, it is pretty much instant. it is defintly NOT A RIP OFF |
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| WHO THINKS PAY TV IS A RIPOFF - I do, from $29mth to $90mth in 8yrs,and what do I get for that? "Premiering" on History but already repeated 50 times on Discovery!!! WTF are all the ads about. I don't mind being informed about whats coming up in the months ahead,but, enough with the blatent advertising |
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| I have been a Foxtell costumer for some time now and I have put up with their inferior product for that time, first there analogue had poor sound and picture quality and then they brought out digital, the picture improved marginally put the sound quality stayed the same now they are trying to sell me IQ 2 which is HD they want $200 upfront and $15 monthly on top of my monthly bill which is $135 just for 3 or 4 HD stations which are the same as the digital ,I can get channel 7 and 10 HD for no extra cost I don’t understand why I should pay extra just because they are trying to keep up with free to air and to fix their inferior product .I like to know if I am the only person that feels like they are getting ripped off, I think they will have to replace all there Foxtel boxes to HD eventually because they will stop making the old ones. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| It is expensive you don't really need it that much it is just like regular television but it has more channels but for a wealthy rich it man it would not bother him or for old folk that can afford to get it then it is not that bad to have or get. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| If you can afford it like quite easily then it is o.k but if you just get past then it was not worth it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I do agree I think that they should charge a price per channnel like $1 or $2 that way you can pick and choose what you want rather than have a heap of channels that you never watch a thing on.I had it years ago then stopped for 8 years, just got it back on see nothing much has changed, waiting for contract to end too. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| repeats full off adverts old movies old series No customer service Most of the stuff can be seen on free to air Once I'm done with my contract thats it Absolute waste of money |
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| A suggestion... there is a new paytv company called Select TV. You pay 1 price and get the same channels as Foxtel. Ok, its not all of them but you get a good range. The price is $39 per month and it connects into your Foxtel wall adaptor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The music is on between 1am and 5am so insomniacs are the real fans of music on mtv i guess. Mtv Australia should take a look at what Channel V did, which was following the same pattern as MTV in the U.S. Once Channel V's schedule started to have a fair amount of television shows rather then just music, Channel V 2 appeared which just plays music 24/7 to ensure there was always music on. MTV Australia has become like a VH1 channel for people aged between 12 to 20. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I'm tired of reality shows ! Almost every fox channel has atleast 2 or 3 now and MTV is the biggest offender: The Hills, Laguna Beach, My Sweet 16, Date my Mom, Scarred. MTV is the biggest rip off there is. Where is the music ????? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The shows you like or the really top entertainment are on once or twice and then gone, but the silliest shows live there like forever or they jump channels and are announced as premieres. Also the signal plays up when it feels like it so the quality varies. Pay TV is the pits and I can't wait for my two year contract to expire. New customers beware, lots of repeats and once you sign you are just another paying number, happy or not. |
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| If they get you to pick channels cause there are really good channels and heaps of Crap. They should have 5 channel, 10 channel and 20 channel packages as well as there packages now. Good Channels- TV1, Arena, FOX8, Comedy Channel, Showtime, FOX SPORTS, V, MTV. Others- Crap |
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| hmmm lets ee now ... 2 years behind on most shows. adverts that they said would never happen . repeat after repeat of the same crap . channel after channel of ancient shows . yeo its a rip off . i chose broadband internet instead . shows within 24 hours , no ads . choose what you want to watch and when ... oh and handy rewind / fast forward buttons. |
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| Nothing wrong with pay tv. I have it in 5 rooms. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I don't know a lot about Foxtel or their service, but I know that Austar is a rip-off ... we had it several years ago, and back then, I think we were paying something like $69 per month for only the basic channels ... pretty sure that was the price anyway ... we found the movie channel had a lot of really old stuff, VERY FEW new release movies (as we were told in the sales pitch), and we were still hiring movies to watch on weekends ... my kids hated the cartoon channels too, as a lot of it was just that japanese crap that nobody's ever heard of. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foxtel these days has nearly if not more ads then free to air tv! I have foxtel at home and we hardly watch it, waste of time and money! I will not be renewing my contract! |
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| NO WAY! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inherited fox from kid when it left home then couldn't pay its bill.now we won't turn it off! we have shift workers on rosters in home and there is always something to tune into. we had a problem after a storm and couldn't wait to have fox back. after all the reality tv b/s and the shopping adds in latenight/early morning timeslots, we remembered why we kept it on. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I never miss some great shows on Aunty such as Spicks & Specks(Wed 8.30pm) and Collectors(Fri 8pm). Dont forget The Chaser guys are back on I think March 28, I am missing the Glasshouse, ABC can sure do some great Aussie shows!! Another show really worth watching is The Worst week of my life(Wed 9.30pm), it is hysterical...Does anyone else watch it?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| john_jet_au Believe what you may...With the technology around today, I think it's still a crock...! The problem is that you can't pick the channels you want...(and lock into an agreement). Give me Aunty & SBS any day...Ad's 'n' all... |
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| I have had pay tv for over 10 years. I had originally Galaxy then Foxtel when they bought the assests. Every paytv company around the world has what is called an entry price package. No paytv company says heres 130 channels pick the ones that you want. The reason, the companies pay for channels based on subscriber numbers. Think of the chaos if they had people buying individual channels and deciding after 2 days they want to get a different channels. A trial in sweden on a group of sports channels found people were subscribing to individual channels to get a certain sporting even and then unsusribing until the next weekend to see the sports again. The company ended up insolvent as they couldnt make money to pay for the programming costs. All paytv companies are aware of this, so no one else is going to try and do this again. Next many of you would be interested to know that paytv is allowed to show no more than 10% of ads compared to revenue. That is if the company makes $220 million a year in subscriptions it can not shows ads totally more than $22million in additional revenue. I did a 24hr study of paytv for my uni class and found that for instance fox8 had a total of 78 breaks in programs for the period. This consisted of a total of 87 ads (products being sold) and 156 program promotions (Advertising other foxtel programs). Many get confused and call program promotions ads when they are clearly not. There does appear to many to be a lot of ads, mainly cause they are spread through out the channels, and thus seem to be of a large volume. |
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| I have ADSL but I am unable to find how to download Y&R from where it finished after Eddie boned it, the episodes on the bit torrent sites are all over the place or dont have enough sources..I would prefer to subscribe online to get the episodes but still no luck... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lol i agree...you'd think if youre paying for the tv you wouldnt see as many ads right???????? I mean SERIOUSLY some ad breaks on those channels go even longer than free to air-_- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I don't have the time to watch all the rubbish thats on free to air, let alone the rubbish I would have to pay for I think the pay TV providers might be able to sell the product to a lot more people if they would let us custom select our own package I would like to grt "World Movies" for example, but not if I am forced to purchase 437 sports stations as part of the deal |
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| Too right steveinoz ....you tell them, couldn't hsve said it better | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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