@Urfriend,

Hitv ought to have put all you mentioned in place first before opening for business, instead, they went throwing millions of dollars on right acquistion.

Hmmm, of what use is it flogging a dead horse ?

all the millions of dollars according to senga,they [hitv] is for the growth of the company.you can only buy what is avaliable.with time all[most] of our wishs will be answered.

@senga

DaarSat is also beginning to sound like hitv.

I have heard Daarsat will be rolling out within the week, from next week and soon a number of times now.

Also they keep saying how good they are going to be, we are waiting to see just how good.

Someone mentioned that the difference in startup dates between hitv and dstv should not be an excuse.

Well, its as good enough excuse as they can get. There is no gainsaying the roll experience plays in this type of business.

You may think you have covered all the angles but you can never gauge your level of readiness until the actual rollout.

That why am waiting to see Daarsat.

I am not a satisfied customer but I still maintain that the age of the business must be put into consideration. Trend started a long time before Hitv(7yrs) and they are not better than hitv in content.

At the rate its going , in three years, hitv would be the best in Nigeria(you can note this down).

To further explain the roll of age and experience in business, you just need to look at what is happening with Visafone and Starcomms now.

Visafone came in with all the noise about the people bankrolling it, Zenith bank and other banks. Based on this, people felt that it would take a long while before there is any issue with visafone(I am one of the early users of visafone EVDO broadband and phone).
But right now, visafone is a mess. Both the phones and internet connection is wack. Their EVDO is just a glorified dial up service. And this is with all their backers and money.

Starcomms on the other hand, keeps powering on. A friend uses starcomms and each time he comes to my place with his laptop, I feel like crying when i see how his internet works while my visafone(which is supposed to be the same capacity) crawls.

I daresay that the difference in the visafone vs starcomms case is experience in the business.

Starcomms have "been there and done that" while visafone(with all their money and poached staff) is just walking this way for the first time.

The same thing can be applied to DSTV/ Hitv.

But hitv's case is not as bad as visafones's case right now believe me.

soloqy:

@senga

DaarSat is also beginning to sound like hitv.

I have heard Daarsat will be rolling out within the week, from next week and soon a number of times now.

Also they keep saying how good they are going to be, we are waiting to see just how good.

Someone mentioned that the difference in startup dates between hitv and dstv should not be an excuse.

Well, its as good enough excuse as they can get. There is no gainsaying the roll experience plays in this type of business.

You may think you have covered all the angles but you can never gauge your level of readiness until the actual rollout.

That why am waiting to see Daarsat.

I am not a satisfied customer but I still maintain that the age of the business must be put into consideration. Trend started a long time before Hitv(7yrs) and they are not better than hitv in content.

At the rate its going , in three years, hitv would be the best in Nigeria(you can note this down).

To further explain the roll of age and experience in business, you just need to look at what is happening with Visafone and Starcomms now.

Visafone came in with all the noise about the people bankrolling it, Zenith bank and other banks. Based on this, people felt that it would take a long while before there is any issue with visafone(I am one of the early users of visafone EVDO broadband and phone).
But right now, visafone is a mess. Both the phones and internet connection is wack. Their EVDO is just a glorified dial up service. And this is with all their backers and money.

Starcomms on the other hand, keeps powering on. A friend uses starcomms and each time he comes to my place with his laptop, I feel like crying when i see how his internet works while my visafone(which is supposed to be the same capacity) crawls.

I daresay that the difference in the visafone vs starcomms case is experience in the business.

Starcomms have "been there and done that" while visafone(with all their money and poached staff) is just walking this way for the first time.

The same thing can be applied to DSTV/ Hitv.

But hitv's case is not as bad as visafones's case right now believe me.

I agree with some of your points but I still disagree on the experience issue. You gave an example with Starcomms and Visafone to buttress your point. Visafone are failing not because they lack experience but because they probably didn't setup well technically.

My example is that of MTN and Glo. Mtn had prior experience in South Africa (even before GSM was introduced into Nigeria) and they had a head start here as well. You cant honestly tell me from Glo's inception till now (2008) MTN's Service has at any time been better than Glo's.

I like the fact that Hitv has forced DStv to introduce cheaper packages, I aplaud them for winning Numerous football rights and giving us an alternative to DStv who have been milking us. Though I have small reservations cause they are also winning exclusive rights so what stops them from jacking up there prices in future if profits aren't up to per with their expectations? (its funny that Government in trying to break DStv's monopoly created another Monopoly in Hitv).

hi all,sports rights have always been exclusive or non-exclusive,but it's the way and manner it was sold we are talking about.dstv were getting this rights for next to nothing but yet,their sub.,were high.but thanks to hitv u can now watch top class sports events at a good rate.SOON,movies,documentries etc will follow.

@Sfinxzone
I also have reservations on the exclusivity of the various football games they are getting cause i do not want to hear them increasing fees anytime in the near future.

I have no doubt that they will become very good "SOON"(according to urfriend), but in their getting good, I don't want to hear any increase in subscription fees cause that would be catastrophic.

hi,there will no increase in subscription for hitv single view subscribers that i know for sure.

Well if they improve and maintain there current price structure the Nigerian viewer will be the benefactor. I just hope the soon will not be too long.
I wish Hitv all the best.

It's the last day of the week and there is still no new channel on hitv. However, the Dove Vision and Biscon channels are up with promo/advert pictures.

Could one really refer to these as new channels ?

femo7,

I wonder oooooooooooooooo. Urfriend what do have to say? Is Action, France 24 HitV stations?

uuhnmm!!

hi, no action/france 24 are not hitv channels but that of gtv.[note that action is a french speaking channel].

Your last post did not give any further info on the new channels you talked about.  It seems you are tired of them (hitv) 'cos the entire management is just  a bunch of crap.

hi femo7,do u want me to write a speech?.with time u will find how many new developments from hitv.many new changes are coming from this august.let u guys know has soon as they are confirmed.

OK oooooooooo. As usual, new developments C O M I N G S O O N .

R u b b i s hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

well that's ur business,u want them to rush so that when there's problem u will see reasons to complain.pls let them take there time.the business is a long term one not short term.

urfriend:

, u want them to rush so that when there's problem u will see reasons to complain,

What do you mean by them rushing ? Simply put, I would say HiTV has failed to carry out a proper feasibility study before opening for business and that is why their operations have remained epileptic.

Their case is like a farmer who went to the farm without his/her tools.

You guys should just leave your friend alone. "The same ni"

HITV have started the advert of Sony Channel, has anyone notice that too? Urfriend, when is the channel going to be alive on our screen, any info?

hi femo7,it is one thing to carry out reach,it is another for the nigerian society to work with that.research are just paper works.they are helpful,but just like polls they do not always the the really on ground.

hi twinstaiye ,sony should be added on or b4 friday.

hi all, hitv just added sony entertainment television. on 12130 h 27500

does that mean we get to watch that anime station you told us about urfriend?

dovevision has start full transmission on hitv.they shall air live the RCCG holy ghost congress live from this morning.

hi delvinmaya,the animax channel will come on next year[2009].

I did a blind scan and i saw dove tv,biscon,sony entertainment and CHANNEL O? did hitv upload channel o also? dove tv seem to be blurred with poor audio can anybody else confirm these?

hi channel o does not belong to hitv.dstv let it free,maybe they are working on something?.

what about kidsco,sentatasport?

hi niyi09,kidsco and setanta will follow soon.hopely b4 the end of august.there are till some technical issues that eutelsat is working on.

so how exactly are you related to hitv? working as a pro or wat? urfriend do answer

It's time for you to verify cos some of your statements here can earn a worker a query.

thanks for asking him also,the guy sure needs to tell us who he is?maybe he is actually oga toyin himself cos he probably has more info than most people there.