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urfriend:
hi all,well it's your choice.remember fstv aired m bc 2 and 4,and at the end what happen to them.once mbc gets to offically find out discom will be in soup.remember rdv with the premiership,gtv reported them to epl and now were are they?.news always goes round.dstv before reported fstv to mbc and they sued them.

@urfriend

Please FSTV never aired mbc2 and 4.

I am a TV person and I find out about any new company that comes into the market. I even go ahead to try out in some cases.

I was conversant with both FSTV and TITV offerings when they came out.

None of them offered mbc 2 nor 4 at that time.

What you need to do is tell your management to sit up.

Those channels you are coming soon with, have been coming soon for how long now?

When you started , you had aljazera and fox sports as part of your offerings. While Aljazeera never surfaced, fox came and went awol.

Then came the promises of changing them with setanta, kidsco, discovery world. That was some months back.

Here we are. Still no sign nor definite date.

Everything you guys do is Trial and error.

You just grope around in the dark and hope and pray that your gamble comes through at the end.

It just seems that Hitv dont have qualified technicians to handle all their stuff hence the trial and error routine.

This routine am sure has affected the EPG as well.

For once stop blaming every other but yourselves.

GTV have the EPG running and delivers on all the channels they promise.

You guys aint representing at all

maskuraid:
@SOLOQY

i second ur bro, if mbc is available on nilesat FTA,who'll give a damn dt its on discom.i'm not sure d bit about illegal dstv tappin is correct.correct me if m wrong but ddnt discomm stop hitv from b/castin CNN in naija??methinks HITV better put up or stay put.WE ARE GETTIN CROSSEYED FROM WATCHIN this DAMN SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me am now seeing white spaces everywhere I look from watching this space.

Thats the point am making. I was trying to counter urfriend who said they were tapping from dstv illegally.There is no way anyone can air dstv channels for up to a week without permission. DSTV takes no prisoners.

That only tells us that Discom gets their own CNN or has an arrangement with DSTV just like CTL used to.

As long as Discom keeps to the arrangement, be it payment or whatever, no problems. Besides, they have been airing the cartoon network, cnn and discovery for years now without DSTV taking them to court.

urfriend:
hi all,we should ourself one question,the offer from disccom is it legal?,has per the channels.because i contacted mbc and they said their channels is not cleared for africa(nigeria).and has for discovery channel and cartoon network,they are getting it from dstv.so one day if dstv feels they (discom)are eating more than they can chew,they can just take them to court.this is not the first time discom will be launching and re-launching.beware,

@urfriend

There is no way they will be airing DSTV channels without permission. We know dstv cant stomach that.

That means they have some kind of arrangement with dstv and they have had that arrangement for a long while now.

They relaunch in the public eye. Even calling press conferences for that. If they were hiding from DSTV, am not sure they would do that. So the DSTV bit is sorted cause they have had that arrangement for a while. Even CTL of those days was getting CNN, cartoon network from dstv and paying them for it.

As for MBC network, we know they are now free to air channels and if they find their way to Discom offerings, am not sure they(MBC network) will burst a nerve trying to stop the people viewing them.

They make their money from the loads of adverts that follow their movies. Abi?

@maskuraid

I called their office this afternoon.

The receiver is not dish but the Califonia antenna of those days which you can get at varying prices.
Their decoder plus their smartcard and 1 month subscription is 10.5k.

The 500 naira they say is for vat.

I was very particular about the MBC network and made that much clear to the lady and she assured me that its not only mbc2 but mbc4, mbc1 as well as mbc action(If that is so, then your wife wont let you watch that hitv again unless she is a football lover too).

She also made mention of another network, which she said is in the same category as MBC network with a lot of movies and entertainment but I didnt quite catch the name.

She said they have cnn, skynews, discovery, eurosportnews, cartoon network and a lot of yoruba speaking channels.

I asked her to confirm that the discovery is 24/7 since i could recall that it wasnt 24/7 when I was using them some years back and she was affirmative.

She mentioned some other channels and was going on about looking for new things to add but I had all the info I wanted at that time so didnt pay attention.

The subscription, after the first free month is 3k. I think it was reviewed upwards cause am sure it used to be 2k.

maskuraid:
@URFRIEND

WAS D PROG EVER AIREDI DDNT SEE IT.what HAPPENED TO D MUCH HYPED 'NIGERIA'REALITY SHOW/ CHANNEL? another 'AS USUAL'?

My brother, I tire o.

One would have thought that they will start the Nigeria Reality show and even the new channels from October 1 in tune with the season but what do we have?

This guys shouldnt be taken seriously anymore. Whenever you see something, you take and if no, dont bother your head.

Am already making alternate plans. The discom people have discovery that we have been begging this people for and even CNN plus all the super mbc channels(mbs2, mbc4, mbc1 and action).

They dont have premiership and laliga but am already training myself to do without those

MsMs:
Did anyone see last nights episode of Dragons den on AIT. i missed it but heard that a "boli" seller was able to slay the Dragons, wonderful

@MsMs

She was well packaged but the only dragon that indicated interest was Mrs Awosika.

All the others opted out saying it was not unique idea and that if the big Fast food players decided to do the same thing, that they would eat up the lady in business.

In other words, Chris Parks, John Momoh and the other lady(I think Tokumbo), all thought was too small scale to invest in.

Mrs Awosika, then told the lady that she would buy her out but that she was proposing something a lot bigger than what the lady brought .

That was when Tejuosho got interested and now said that he would want 30% of whatever Mrs Awoshika was planning(that shows belief in Awoshika's business acumen).

Mrs Awoshika then offered the Lady 30% of the stake instead of the 70% she wanted to have but assured her that the new plan was bigger and way beyond what she brought to the dragons. It would include the boli but also encompass other wider scope.

I guess she didnt want to say the plan so that people viewing and listening don't jump in and start doing it before they start.

So the boli seller didnt quite slay the dragons, she got one of them interested and it turned out, that one person was already thinking of a business that entails some sort of catering.

Truthman:
@urfriend,
could you please help me check my subscription status? All my HITV channels have been scrambled. I[b] got my system with a one year subscription on 27th November 2008[/b]. My smart card number is 017-1003-1702-7. Tried several times to get across to your customer service people.

@Truthman

We are not in november 2008 yet or did you mean november 2007?

That would mean you still have two months on your subscription

@ilugunboy and maskuraid.

Some years back, I used to watch discon channels through CTL(Trend cable analogue)via the california antenna and yes, they had MBC2/Mbc4(they used to alternate between the two).

Also there was Sky movies 2 and Sky which used to switch to Sky adult channel at night. There was Sky news, Eurosport(not news) and cartoon network. Dont know if there was any other worthwhile channel. There were a lot of local yoruba channels.

But we didnt mind then cause the subscription was in the region of 2k or there about.

We all know that when it comes to good movies, even DSTV can't beat MBC network(though they cut out any sex and nudity scene and replace with advert). But the way they do it, you wont miss anything in the movie.

So if they are still operational(I thought they had closed shop), then it would be a good proposition to have as a fall back to when hitv refuses to activate one's account or at the end of football season.

I already indicated interest in it at the FTA forum and i wont mind even subscribing as long as it can serve my purpose.

@urfriend

U have totally ignored my question of over three days ago.

I asked: Is the upgrade also for those of us with Strong decoders? Because the immediate activation is not working with me.

Please answer me.

urfriend:
hi sology,in has much has,one can't please everyone i must say that payment at gtbank works.each time u want to pay make sure your card is in ur decorder properly.also that your decorder is upgraded to 2.05 or 2.07.always write clearly your smartcard number on the teller.

when i say soon or watch this space what am trying to say is that something is in the oven.right now hitv is working on many many improvements/additions,on till they have been signed,concluded,finished,tested i can't come out to tell you anything.all i can do is give u hints.has i always say watch this space(coming soon).

@urfriend

You didnt answer my question properly.

I asked if the instant activation includes those of us with Strong Decoders.

When you say to upgrade the decoder to 2.05 or 2.07, are you not talking about Hitv branded decoders?

What is the upgrade situation for those with Strong decoders cause the instant activation is obviously not working here

urfriend:
hi all,please alway pay your subscription at any gtbank branch nationwide.please don't say you pay at gtbank and it don't come up.ask twinstaiye,he made is payment today at the bank and it came up in less than an hour.alway make sure you write out your s/card number clearly.

@urfriend

This pay at GTBank and immediate activation does it not include those of us with Strong Decoders?

Each time I pay, I have to call and call the office for activation.

I didnt give myself the Strong decoder. It was the one Hitv gave me when I subscribed August of last year.

No but its not just those with Strong Decoders, I sent you a mail about my issue and a friends which I later told you its been activated.

My friend has a hitv decoder and to avoid problems, he paid three days before his subscription ran out(in a GTBank).

It didnt come on till the saturday of the match and that was after we had called a nd called the office for them to activate it.

There must be something wrong somewhere if some people get activated immediately and others don't.

The first time I paid through GTBank, it was easy cause I got through to your office phonelines fast ,but now it seems a million and one people are always on those customer care lines and thus, it has become a tortuous task.

We are really exasperated right now and honestly our expectations of HITV has gone to almost none.

Its not enough for us to keep hearing "watch this space" and "soon" on every promise.

Hitv started with GTV but we know how far they have gone. Some of us have friends in Ghana and Botswana and know just what they are getting from GTV.

GTV shares a Transponder with Hitv but their subscribers don't hear that as an excuse whenever the pictures go terrible or as an excuse for not adding channels.

I am beginning to seperate myself from football. I will be deliberately  missing matches from now so that I can train myself to do without it.

Once am fully done, am leaving this place.

In that vein, does anyone have an idea how much one can get a DSTV smart card?

Also there is something going on in the FTA thread concerning mbc2 channels in Nigeria by discom. I will be watching that very closely.

Hitv just seems like a jail sentence right now. You pay, you are not rest assured, channels are taken off without replacements just like that.

Abeg make I rest before I burst an artery.

Am with you on the awful presentation.

I posted that on another forum here.

The news presentation leaves you even less informed than you were before you tuned in.

The owner decided to go to his home town to bring anyone that has a strange and inordinately long name to be TV presenters and News casters.

All in the bid to appear afrocentric .

The bad thing is that the presenters are neither trained nor have TV personalities

enitan2002:
@ sology
thats a nice observation on your part, thats good.

@enitan2002

I remember the days of mbc2/mbc4, cnn, sky movies etc on discom. How can one get it once again?

I particularly miss Sky movies and mbc2.

@Gangsta101

If the mexican soap you are referring to is Second Chance, then you would be surprised to know that that mexican soap probably pays them more than the Champions league match.

I know what that particular soap does to people who live around me. I mean, I dont think i have met any female that doesnt follow it religiously. And there are also men who wouldnt mind that much if the champions league was replaced with it. Just dont know what it is with Nigerians and Mexican soaps.

Having said that, I must say that AIT is really a very unprofessional TV station. Its not the first time. There are times that they have advertised football matches(Uefa cup and Euro qualifiers), just for people to wait and wait without seeing the advertised match. And the bad thing is that you wont here or read any apologies and explanation for not bringing the match as earlier announced.Its that bad.

Have you ever tried to follow AIT News? AIT News is arguably the richest in News content among all the stations in Naija but the News delivery is awful.

News presenters jumble up pronunciation of names, do not know where to punctuate their sentences and you the viewer, ends up less informed than you were before tuning in(in the midst of all the news content).

Sometimes the report comes in with bad audio or picture quality from one of the centers but the News anchor would not see any reason for 'apologizing for the technical hitch' but would carry on as if nothing happened.

Is that what they will be doing in their AIT NEWS Channel on Daarsat?

Anyways, am sorry for going off on a tangent from what the forum is about but I had to let it out

@adewoyin

Whats your own?

Do you want to make out as a hitv insider or what?

Enough of the half bit information and posts.

People are pissed off already as it is with hitv.

Just go ahead and tell us that you are an installer and can be reached for services pere!

@enitan

Since its revealed, what stops the discom people from blocking us?

I remember how I used to enjoy mbc2 and mbc4 even sky movies.

But wait a while, so discom is still in business?

Does it mean that i can legally use them and subscribe to them(I remember it was about 2k or thereabout), to get those channels?
Am just thinking ahead in case they device a way of stopping us in our tracks since it seems all the providers have insiders hanging around this forum.

Can anyone tell me?

@seuncyber

There is no FTA for hitv.

Its either you use hitv or you abandon it and ask the gurus here what dish and other equipments to use for Free to air channels.

Its better you stop asking that question before you start getting some serious scolding from the FTA guys here

@ urfriend
I sent u a mail

ginky:
In as much as I repect everyone's opinion,I beg to differ.I don't think that the contestants were acting on script.
I have so many reasons for this.In the final stage of the competition,I knew that the lost chronicle will be close to the anchor (Bob). Seriously speaking,If I was a contestant I wouldn't have moved far away from the anchor as Frank did. Also,I think that it was luck that made Mike find the treasure.Any body could have found it.
Someone commented that a woman never wins.It is just a matter of time before that happens.Besides,do you really think that if Linda was in the final stage of the competition,she would have won?I am not saying that she is not capable of winning,but I personally speaking,I don't think that she would have been able to stay on the rope as Frank and Mike did since she did not have that level of experience.[color=#006600][/color]By level of experience,I don't mean the screening test but NYSC.
Some people said that he just dug on one part of the ground and found it.If he dugged on various parts of the ground,they would have said that he was just being a hypocrite pretending to search on different places so that no one would notice. Please let us not make a conclusion on something we are not sure of.

Tollu,did you actually watch the show?In case you are confused,the book looked very refined.Didn't you see the ray of light that shone out form the middle of the book?Is that not different enough to convince you that the book is from the future?(although I don't believe that part) I would agree with slyk.

My dear,

Referring to the bold part of your post, did you see Bob there at the time Frank got down from the ladder? Try and get the video and watch again.
How come he just came there and stood after Frank had passed and at exactly the time Michael was climbing down?

Some of us recorded those episodes and its shocking the irregularities and discrepancies you will find if you review them.

Also dont you think its "magical" for him to have just kicked up the chronicle at just one spot?

Its not just in this forum, even all around you in the streets, so many people know what you are finding hard to see.

Think about this: In an episode where the last three met with Bob at the foot of the hill, in the middle of a task, they were all wet with rain and sweat. Bob asked them to meet them up the hill, at another supposedly far location for more instructions. We were made to believe that they were running all through to the new location but when they got to Bob, guess what? They were all as fresh as people that just got up from a rest. No sweat no wet drops of rain.

Thats another blunder they made.

Believe me, some of us, because of the suspicions of the last three editions, went as far as recording every move and task.

The findings are appalling to say the least.

They should not put the lives of our youth at risk pretending they are choosing the fittest.

Doesnt it occur to you that there are a lot stronger and hungrier people in Nigeria that would make the cut if it was truly based on fitness?

Someone may say that its not just fitness but brains as well but I say that fitness and strength is the first consideration, if not they wouldn't go through the rigours of the seaside school.

But you still find models who can not even carry a log of wood making the final ten cut. From the whole of Nigeria?

Just understand that the last Ten are predetermined and from amongst them, the last person standing.

Its all about their Brand my friend, their Brand.

ilugunboy, they are slow, very slow

They are just too slow in everything.

And to think they started at the same time with GTV.

urfriend, you are doing a great job here but those guys at HITV need to sit up.

@vickoy

Did you say two discovery channels?

Wow.

But like someone asked, didnt he explain the internet bundle with visafone?

And when are they going to get a website dedicated to the daarsat up not this daargroup rubbish website?

EPG is no more working. Used to work on mine but its no more showing so maybe you shouldnt bother about it for now.

I still think Hitv is too slow in things.

foxlife, B4U movies and fox crime look good.

They may be worth getting daarsat for.

Depending on the initial cost anyway.

MsMs:
Hmmmmmmm I watched lastnights episode and wondered why the guys with the business Ideas refuse to negotiate terms/percentage with Dragons each time they are offered cash Fear may be, Nice show last night, keep it up as we're all learning while being entertained!

Exactly, did they tell them that they cant make counter offers and bargain?

For instance, the guy that created a program that enables anyone receive information on hotels, airlines, reservations via sms gateway.

Imagine how he parted with 75% of equity without even bargaining.

He created the program for crying out loud.

Its not even good for the Dragons to try to take away so much from the business owners.

They ought to make offers that will also encourage the guys to work hard at the business.

If not, the guys can just receive the initial pay and refuse to overwork himself for a paltry 10% stake.

Now you are talking.

You see?

It wasnt that hard, was it?

@kaysmith
na wao

Have counted 26 already from your post and its just the fox crime that sounds good.

okomogo, remaining 14 please.

You can as well give all the info here. You are browsing anonymously so no one would know who is sending the info.

I guess the email address you added is not know by your co workers and thats why you added it here.

There is no point asking anyone to write to that email to get the info.

Just post it here or wait for whoever cares to write to you.

I dont see what the hullabaloo is about naming a number of channels you are hoping to offer just a month from now.

What is wrong with you people at daarsat?

urfriend,

When are we expecting to see that new channel you talked about some days ago?

You said it should be up by this weekend. Whats holding it?

Hitv must not wait untill daar comes out with good channels o because it would slow down the number of people signing up.

Already, that Natgeo that you mentioned they have, is a selling point

urfriend,

from that list, I can only see two channels that people can be interested in and they are NatGeo and Aljazeera

@shamass,

Good to know that there is someone from daarsat here but you have not said anything about the 40 channels that you people are talking about.

At least, as an insider, you should be able to tell us at least 5 channels out of the 40 you are planning.

urfriend, who has been holding up for hitv, at least tells us the channels to expect and all that.

If you are Launching next month as you say, should you not have started test transmission by now?

Hitv did that and even Trend tv a couple of months back did same and offered the channels as FTA for a while.

There is no exact date of your launch no transponder or frequency info nothing. You have also just pasted one of the news items we have been reading from guardian and the rest.

We want to see good things and competition everywhere but you gotta do more than just talking.

Like I said earlier, I hope daarsat can make us do a Volte-face and eat our words.

@Valo

why not just put the link here.

We dont need to go to google if someone here has the direct link.