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I finally terminated my contract with DSTV last November. It really didn’t offer anything I wanted to watch at around a mind boggling R900 a month. I’m not a huge sports fan although I did enjoy a few years of Le Tours de France and the last few days of Wimbledon but it was a vast price to pay for what was mostly a load of unwatchable garbage. I think I may have regularly accessed less than 3% of what they call the DSTV “bouquet” over the past five years and that was mostly the news channels.
Happily, if you still pay for Multichoice/DSTV you can take comfort in the fact that your subscription is helping to fund Hadspen House (Google it) in Castle Cary, Somerset, UK where Naspers supremo Koos Bekker is wisely creating a safe offshore refuge where he and his family will be forever protected from the more lunatic elements of SA politics.
Since I discovered Netflix at roughly a sixth of what my patriotic local provider charges I have never looked back and am now guaranteed many evenings of high quality binge viewing. I’m astounded that DSTV can turn a profit but I put that down to sports crazy South African addicts paying dearly for their daily fix.
The major challenge that came with the dumping of DSTV was where to tune in for news. That’s when I discovered Euronews Live which I pick up at no cost via YouTube on my Smart TV. If you don’t have a Smart TV then you can access Euronews on your laptop, smart phone or iPad.