Comparing DSTV And HiTV

@ayusman,

Called your line, and no response.

Kindly confirm if it's true that the ikeja station is back.

Waiting for you.

Hi Guys

I am new to the forum but have been reading it since early last year, I live in England and see things differently. I do know a bit about Nigeria and have been visiting Nigeria for many years.

I wish HiTV well with their venture,  people out there have to remember that these guys have invested a tonne of money to get where they are today and I commend them to be up and running, They spent almost $40 million on football and although this is a driver for the platform there are a lot of Nigerians that just want good programming apart from football and they deserve it. Just to pay for the cost of the football they will need at least 100,000 subscribers and that is not easy with football alone. DSTV have at least 150,000 subscribers and as we know that took them 10 years.

With  maximum of 16 channels on DTH (the maximum channels on the one transponder they lease)will not excite Nigerians to go out and buy HiTV, outside of football. Check out DSTV when the EPL rights come up again they have deep pockets, so HiTV please get your platform together before then.

The CNN exclusivity question is irrelevant as there are better news channels and CNN are the only people to have exclusive news rights with DSTV. Even if the rights were available then CNN (or any other provider for that matter) have the right to sell to HiTV or not. Nigerian platform operators have to pay a premium (and often up front) for content, one of the only countries in the world. Why because other Nigerian platforms have failed and have cost content providers a fortune in lost revenue.

Being proudly Nigerian is great, but any DTH operating in Nigeria has to be a majority owned by Nigerians, therefore the majority of the dividends remain in Nigeria. Nigerians know what is good quality and there is no reason why they should not get it.
Why not use foreign expertise to set up the platform, then release them after say five years, when the Nigerian platform is fully trained and running profitably, seems sense to me?

I always read with interest all your comments and hope that HiTV can make the dream come true of a Nigerian DTH platform to compete with DSTV, please give them time, Rome was not built in a day.

No vex my brother. My phone was connected to my laptop (that's what i use to browse when am home) and that makes incoming calls difficult to connect.

I actually did confirm from their customer helpline but am still yet to be convinced until i confirm from their manager. The guy that installed my mytv deleted the hitv settings.

Niyi, please are you confirming that.

The Ikeja station is up and running. confirmed. their two packages are now okay. satellite and terrestrial packages are now operational. just installed the terrestrial package with 21 channels but it has to be on request.

please i need help on my hitv decoder.i mistakenly reset all the settings on the decoder yesterday and since then i cannot get any of the stations.my installer is not around.can anybody help with the settings?

@ Niyi09:

Am not very sure of the setting off my head but let me see ,  (BTW, i'm on the satellite package)

From Menu, go to Installation, then press the Manual Scan button.

Then make sure you input these settings:

Satellite: Eutelsat W4

Frequency: (40) 11.900 Ghz

Symbol Rate: 27.500 Ms.

Polarization: H

Network Search : ON


The symbol rate and polarisation are automatically set once you specify the (40) 11.900Ghz frequency


Then click on OK. That should do the trick

(i hope i did not miss anything out sha )

tboy was right, better still, if your decoder has blind scan, just click it and it will generate all the available frequencies on Eutelsat W4.

please can anyone assist me? Am a subscriber of hitv,recently i discover that when am watching those channels that have hi as there prefix,they will be showing scramble intermittently. What is happening hitv?

thanks tboy81, my decoder is now working perfectly.thanks alot

hi,THIS IS TO INFORM You GUYS THAT HITV WILL AIR ALL 32 MATCHES OF THE 2008 NATIONS CUP LIVE.ALSO TO INFORM ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NOT UPDATED THE SUBSCRIPTION TO PLS DO SO,BCOS FROM MONDAY MORNING,THERE SHALL BE MASS DISCONNECTION OF ALL PERSONS WHO ARE OWING HITV.
THANKS.

Please kindly help with the hitv settings for terrestial.

The same thing with mine too, all the Hitv Channels went scrambled, but i am not bothering myself, weekend still far  for football matches to come, i know they will solve it before then.

Any news on Hollywood Trend that is moving to eutelsat??

I got an SMS some hours ago from hitv apologising for the scrambled channels on their "hi channels" saying their engineers are "working on it"


So i guess lets wait and see ,

(BTW: They seem to be sending a lot of bulk sms these days , at least they're notifying customers of "challenges" these days rather than keeping quiet)

my brother outside lagos wanted 2 buy satelite tv and he wanted my advice since i ve been using hitv 4 d past 6 months i simply told him to go 4 dstv family. why? because efficiency, cheaper monthly payment, more channels (and entertaining ones too) were the criteria i used in basing my judgement. Lets not be decieved without d weekly primeirship matches would any of us realy choose hitv over dstv family?

Can anybody help me with the terrestial settings of hitv. Kindly post here. I know one can count on u guys.