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Scopium:
[size=13pt]Please somebody warn MTN to stop sending nonsense text about project fame or else . , . . . . . . . [/size]

lol .

I feel u

ekonibaje:
please i was checkg through this forum ,thinking to solve my hitv problem,,kindly help me in activation this my subcription mr yourself--mr ati-lola--sc--01710091122-5 teller no--309370-ikd gtb bank--20-10-08--please i will be gladdly happy see it comes up today--

@adewoyin

U just registered as ekonibaje just to keep your activation marathon going abi?

urfriend has other people to listen to as well o

adewoyin:
please ur friend sms ur email adress--to my box,adewoyincoker@yahoo.com,mr a.k moak,01710114219-2 teller no--307924, ikd gtb today

mr oteju muritala teller no--311197, today17-10-08,smc--017100055817,mr anifowose 311199--sc--017101216756--mrs esther teller no--307913--sc--0171005175-8,ikd gtb,many more,please help me out,please

Na wao, adewoyin. Maybe you should go and resume with them at hitv 2moro saturday.

Make sure you get there before 7.30 am(that way u take position at the front door).

Then hold one of the workers there hostage till they activate all your cards.

_{This kind money na him dey give headache before one chop am.}

@ilugunboy

How is your plan of the LCD going?

The contact about the card travelled. He will be around by monday(hopefully the brockage wey hold me go don leave by then)

adewoyin:
please all staff are ok,but the management lack good will 4 der subcriber,please am posting d pic tommorow to see hw people suffer,please i need to thk all this guys 4 well done job, folake ,lola, tun,and some junior guys dey tried,please tell the management to go some managerial course,please

@adewoyin

You are right about Folake.

She and people like urfriend deserve special mention at hitv.

But this also shows that they are probably understaffed since so many of us know these few people doing the work

@ilugunboy

You beat me to the reply to adewoyin.

As for the coming soon channels, my brother, am not sure any will be added this month o.

The advert on their site used to be coming this october, which "committed" them to the month of october.

Right now it has changed to coming soon, thereby throwing the date open to their own interpretation of soon.

@adewoyin

Now you can see abi?

Seeing is believing.

We can all see that anyone who comes in here and say we shouldnt complain, either is not a subscriber, is a staff of hitv, or just doesnt pay for subscription.

If you pay for subscription at hitv and go through the hell we all go through, am sure that person would be the first person to complain here.

maskuraid:
@ilugun & soloqy

make una bone d bond chick na,haba.enof things dey to yarn joo .

@soloqy

tried checkin up on d dstv stuff yesterday,kindly forward d TP u got em on.

@ maskuraid

I don choose to ignore that person. Well done joo.

@ilugunboy, thanks man

mysterlawk

Sending u a mail right now. Let me know about the dstv package and the transponder you saw daarsat on.

@Maskuraid, I did an auto scan on Eutelsat w4 . An auto scan scans all the transponders on eutelsatw4. Anyways, the freebie is off now.

ilugunboy:
bondxie,

so you've really taken your time to go through this thread.

Please do me a favour, answer this: are you a subscriber, Hitv person or what type of stakeholder are you?, your answer will give me a clue of how to relate with you henceforth.

Its obvious she is not a subscriber.

Any subscriber would identify with the issues being raised here.

Some of us used to be the fore runners in the promotion of hitv(I know I was).

@bondxie

You still don't get it.

We are not placing the ad here for a clueless person like you to read(How would that help solve the problem?).

Its in the hope that people like urfriend, who is an insider with hitv will get the messages across.

And yes, I have a right to make them aware of other services available out there.

don't you see how silly you sound by saying we shouldnt complain?

I advice you to let those involved ie subscribers and the insiders handle their business here.

@Mysterlawk

Could you please share the transponder info? If not here, then maybe at the FTA thread.

Lets check out what they are offering so that guys like maskuraid can make an informed choice

@bondxie

I don't know where you are coming from.

This is now an official hitv thread for subscribers of hitv.

There is someone that is an insider for hitv here.

We as subscribers, have a right to complain if we are not getting good services. We pay for it don't we? We are not getting it for free.

The way you complain about PHCN not giving you service after payment is the way we complain here about hitv not giving good services after payment.

I also suggest you look around and read other threads about hitv's poor services. Read about how people pay and not activated.

As far as complaining on this page about hitv goes, you are going to continue seeing it until they change for the better and if you don't like it, you know what you can go do to yourself.

Am really trying to be civil with my reply to you cause you are so clueless.It seems to me you just jumped in to reply to a thread that you don't even know the genesis of.

My guy, 32 inch LCD means a step-up. It needs something that matches the aura

But wait, did you notice that the advert on hitv used to be "coming this october"? Now its coming soon.

@adewoyin

What is my hitv?

There is mytv and there is hitv they are both different companies.

@maskuraid

Am not sure one can call the dstv fees a rip-off any more if we pay 4k to hitv for only football.

One for one, you can not compare the channels on hitv(apart from the football), with the channels on dstv compact(which is 4,300) even as it is.

Not to mention the countless music radio and audio channels on dstv.

At N5,500 per month, and having to start buying new equipment, I am finding it difficult to begin to consider daarsat. So I dont think dstv can be called a rip-off anymore.

@ilugunboy

They say there is someplace at oshodi where they get smartcards. Be it dstv, hitv ,mytv, etc.

There is nothing illegal about it. Its usually dealers who got product packages in bulk or package promos but due to not having buyers, decide to sell the items individually if need be.
I understand what you mean about hitv becoming an embarrassment. Like I said, am beginning to train myself to do without the football so that I can comfortably dump it. My subscription will expire by thursday and I wont renew before the weekend so i can test myself.
About the DSTV smartcard, am sure the guy will be able to get you one. Someone else even advertised in the FTA forum that he has it for sale.

While watching the DSTV channels yesternight, I saw BBC Entertainment, BBC Life, BBC Education, BBC ceebies, all new and solid channels. BBC Entertainment has series, sitcoms, movies, drama, BBC Life, has things about lifestyle and living generally, BBC Education was another documentary channel and the ceebies(I am not sure now if i got the name) is children's entertainment.

My brother, there was so much to watch that I didnt get to do any work anymore last night. Before long, I learnt from an advert on one of the stations that those Channels were added just last month(September).

Now add Foxlife(which i saw yesterday as well and which they didnt have before), that would mean six channels in the space of six weeks.

My signal strength on the hitv channels are up to 85 percent and the signal strength on the dstv channels are just about 56-60 percent yet the picture quality on the dstv is crystal clear compared to the hi channels.

I just need to know how many of these newly added dstv channels will be available on the compact package. I will call my friend who has it and find out by tomorrow.

@ilugunboy

how we go do now?

Yes, but the guy said he can get it for me at 6k and not the initial 5k he was offering but am still urging him to look further that he might even get it cheaper than the 5k.

But I have made up my mind to get it. Maybe next week since There is a serious Brokage that is disturbing me now.

Cause I will need to pay for the N4,300 compact package as well.
But something tells me that they will review subscription fees downwards soon.

It seems to me that they have eyes and ears all around and its too much of a coincidence that their channels run into FTA always at a point when their is a general disatisfaction about hitv services or whenever their is some news about a competition or new developments in other Satellite tv offerings.

I have noticed the three times that they have gone FTA for a while now and am beginning to see a trend.

@toskom

Its either you are a hitv staff or you don't subscribe to hitv.

But looking closely, maybe you are right in saying that one can not compare hitv with dstv and daarsat. They are miles apart.

Those hi things you mentioned, are on their own "pedestal".

The "great programing content" that can be found in hi nolly, hi life and all the other variations of hi, can only be compared with the "superb picture quality" that you find in Biscon, Dove media and Amuludun.

Did any other person catch what happened yesterday night/morning?

The whole DSTV Bouquet opened up on free to air.

I mean all plus premium channels.

I usually work overnight at home and of course try to watch TV a little while doing so.

At about past midnight or there about, I just saw myself fidgeting with the remote and there they were.

Needless to say that my work for that yesternight suffered cause there was soo much to watch.

Including four great French channels(I like).

I had already downloaded the dstv channels last week in anticipation of getting a dstv smartcard.

I think they added new channels and wanted to show off to us cause I saw foxlife(which they didnt have before).

It just doesnt feel good watching all those quality content just for them to be taken away.

I think they have people reading these discussions here and from time to time, open up their channels for us to see what we are missing.

Its so frustrating hearing the same things over and over again.

Thats it.

From Next week, Its either I get that DSTV smart card someone is offering at 5k or get the Discom.

This HITV people cant be serious.

okomogo:
HITV has tried in the area of activation because i was activated in less than an hour after paytment,i think the trick is making sure u write ur S/card number boldly,and it should be inside ur decoder when paying.
@URFRIEND,please tell ur people we are getting tyred of waiting for action,we want it now.

@okomogo

We write the smart card number very boldly and clearly. It was the first thing urfriend made us to understand.

And of course, the smartcard is always in the decoder while paying. Besides they at DSTV or the rest of them never tell you you must leave the smartcard in your decoder while paying with them. They just activate u for crying out loud.

Besides, what about NEPA, even if your smartcard is in the decoder at the time of paying, what is the guarantee that there will be light at that time.

Let HITV just behave like every other person and stop bringing stress to subscribers.

Why is it always stories and excuses and such like with HITV?

Just get this things to work, period.

If you watched Daarsat launch, you could see how Dopkesi stressed the point of subscriber management software that they already deployed .
This tells me that they have heard and learnt that its an issue with HITV so they want to leverage on that as well.

On another note, this weekend will really expose how boring Hitv can be with no premiership going on and they dont have the qualifiers to show either.

Project fame west africa is cool.

Highlights on NTA, MBI, NIGEZIE.

I think that Ghanaian has a unique voice. Though he seems to do just a particular style of songs.

[size=15pt]Iyanya Wins: Project Fame[/size]

urfriend:
hi sology,what decorder are u using at home (strong or the hitv branded decorder)?.

@urfriend

I posted like two or three pages back and asked you specifically if those of us with Strong decoders need to do any upgrade in other to get instant activation and you said that Strong does not need any upgrade.

By the way, I was given the Strong decoder when I went to get hitv august of last year.

@donaremu,

I keep asking urfriend the question:

Is their purported "instant activation" working for some people and not for others?

People get all manner of hypertensive pressures whenever its time to renew subscription to get activated.

MT:
HITV : My Torturous Experience

Please All,

I don't know if i am the only one having this problem with HITV. They scarmble my smart card even as I still have 2 weeks of credit left on my card. To make matter worse, no apology from their end.

Two, When I pay to subscribe, I have to go and give my card to one of their agent (since Its difficult to get through to hitv customer service, and even if u do, the smart card will take days to get activated)who will in turn collect 1000 naira in order to use his "connection" with hitv staffs to get my card activated. Each month, i have to live with this nightmare. I even asked if i could pay for a whole year, and the agent told me point blank that it would be a total waste of money as my smart card could still be scrambled as it pleases HITV.

Please, i need your advice before HITV turns me nut.

We are all going through the activation, scrambling and no access nightmares but yours is quite advanced.

Imagine your installer collecting 1k to activate a subscription of 4k?

I think you should move over to this thread : https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-106379.832.html

You will be better advised or helped there.

debuts when?

On Which tv stations?

If you want people to participate in your topic, u gotta be a bit clearer with details.

I just heard the Daarsat official Launch is Tomorrow.

Any body in abuja here?

Someone to really preview and demo the channels on offer.

So we can know fully the makeup of those channels :-)

maskuraid:
For me.d issue is not even this MBC controversy, let HItv sit up and perform.All this excuses by ourfriend dnt cut d ice.If we are payin for a service and we r not gettin it,we have d right to complain and even change provider if need b.Take for instance this wknd,after football,there was really nothin tangible i could watch on hitv.If hitv wants to b a football platform ,ok, but then any reasonable DTH company knws broad spectrum content is d only thing that will sustain customer base.Pay TV is s'possed to give u sthin 2 watch at any point in time.Hitv as at NOW dnt have dt, they'v not even started.If DAARSAT starts with 40 channels,d law of averages say dt at any point in time at least 4 of them will have somtin good 2 watch which works for me because of the 20 channels hitv has now(i dnt count hi sports 2 as a channel)only live football grabs my attention.Urfriend himself will not throw good money down d drain except he gets his signal f.o.c.Imagine what will happen 2 Hitv if DAARSAT gets it right??We all want them to succeed because take it or leave it they were d first to actually break d hold of dstv.Now d mkt is gettin wider/d audience wiser so they gotta step up if they want to b counted.All d promise/watch this space will not hold us a second longer when better services beckon.WAS IT ONLY ME DT SAW NTA IBADAN ON NIGEZIE DURING D AIRING OF PROJECT FAME YESTERNITE?

You are quite right on the law of averages.
At any point in time, there ought to be something good on at least four of those fourty.

I was also skeptical about Daarsat but I went to the website of some of their proposed channels.
I think I saw someone post in the forum that they have fox life, fox crime, fox entertainment, and even Setanta as part of their offerings and those are very good stations.

http://www.foxtv.it/web/fox/foxlife?mmID=channel

http://www.foxtv.it/web/fox/foxcrime?mmID=channel

http://www.natgeomusic.it/blog/

Though the channels seem to be operating from Europe/Italy .Cant find English version of the sites

@twinstaiye

Was mbc added at inception?

When exactly was it added?

Cause I didnt see mbc when I got FSTV up untill I dumped it

Gangsta101:
As for the HITV card, i don't know if they will sell just the card to u, and frankly i don't know how much that will cost you, hopefully not too much (i am thinking N10,000 tops, but don't quote me sha).

You can get the HITV smart Cards at Oshodi at 4k.

An installer got a hitv smart card for someone I know that way.

urfriend:
hi all,hitv know there are problems and are really working towards making every subscriber very happy.all they need is time.from this month of october we shall start to notice many changes(activation processes,new channels,better services etc).watch this space,

Ok, we agree that they know there are problems. We know they are trying to make things better but should this take soooo long?

Its taking a freaking long time to sort some little issues out.

Like Maskuraid pointed out, DSTV does not need a year of notice to add channels or make any changes but with Hitv, its almost like the full cycle of a woman conceiving and giving birth(birth pains and all inclusive).

urfriend

You are very funny.

I will also maintain that FSTV never aired MBC network.

O now you know that it wasnt MBC or whatever that made FSTV close down abi?

Read what Maskuraid wrote and glean from that, the real reason why they went down.

They came out without making it clear to people that they didnt have EPL. So you had people subscribing and hoping to watch football.

They lost subscribers due to the disappointments of people who were subtly made to believe that they had a lot of life football to show.

Of course DSTV locked down all the football and thus FSTV didnt have live football neither did it have other interesting content.

That goes to tell you how dangerous it is to promise and fail or to make out to be what you aint.

You are now saying that Daarsat spent too much on equipment, but at least people will know them for that(Equipment that work/superior equipment ).

Hitv is neither known for superior equipment nor quality content(at least for now).

You guys have just found a middle point for yourselves to settle in(That spells mediocrity) .

I was at a friends place over the holidays who has the DSTV compact package.

Honestly, I felt so abused and maltreated when I saw the quality of content and delivery.

I started asking myself if all this craze about football, is worth it.

At 4,300 naira with the compact package, He gets all the news content including CNN, bbc, Mnet series mnet action, hallmark, E, Countless radio/audio stations, Zone Reality, BBC ENTERTAINMENT, Espn, National Geographic, Nageo Wild, Style, africa magic, mtv base, trinity, one gospel and so much more .

And he doesnt get the high blood pressure people get when its time to pay and be activated.

I am soo not loving Hitv right now.

For anyone who cares to take a look, here is the link to the DSTV compact: http://www.dstvafrica.com/Dstv/channels.aspx?Bouquet=144&Country=Nigeria&Language=eng