1 reviews | Active since Jul 2014
Ancient Movies shown over and over.
I can't understand why nobody else complains about this. DSTV shows the same ancient movies over and over. The series are even worse. Not only are the series shown very old but they just randomly take one episode from a season and show it once. There is no continuation or follow up. If I see or hear the words 'New' and 'Exclusive' I want to vomit. Some of these series and movies are so old that it starts to turn yellow. The good series disappear and are replaced by cheap *******. The adverts are a nightmare. Some of them are running for years. Some of the stuff they advertise doesn't even exist anymore. It makes me wonder: Are they bankrupt or do they just want to get rich faster? They must have a massive archive from where they dig up the ******* they are showing and we pay good money for this. Unfortunately they have no real competition and can therefore do what they want. That is why they do not even react on complaints against them. Take some lessons from African Bank.
We understand that you find repeats frustrating. The main reason programmes are repeated is to give people a chance to see something they might have missed. Or to record on their PVRs a show they might have missed.
Different channels have different levels of repeats. Premium customers will see content that they had access to a few months ago, repeated later on channels that are open to customers on other packages like DStv Compact.
Some channels also have programming block of six or eight hours. This means that the same block of programmes will repeat either four (for six hour blocks) or three (for eight hour blocks) times during the course of a day.
There is also a limit on how much new content is produced every year. A single channel broadcasting 24 hours a day needs 8760 hours of content a year. In comparison, Hollywood only makes about 600 new English-language movies every year, which equates to only about 1200 hours of movies. This means that there will always be older content that plays.
Having said that, there is a lot of new content available on a weekly basis. We highly recommend to use the various tools we've made available find out what is on.
Regards
Elna
We understand that you find repeats frustrating. The main reason programmes are repeated is to give people a chance to see something they might have missed. Or to record on their PVRs a show they might have missed.
Different channels have different levels of repeats. Premium customers will see content that they had access to a few months ago, repeated later on channels that are open to customers on other packages like DStv Compact.
Some channels also have programming block of six or eight hours. This means that the same block of programmes will repeat either four (for six hour blocks) or three (for eight hour blocks) times during the course of a day.
There is also a limit on how much new content is produced every year. A single channel broadcasting 24 hours a day needs 8760 hours of content a year. In comparison, Hollywood only makes about 600 new English-language movies every year, which equates to only about 1200 hours of movies. This means that there will always be older content that plays.
Having said that, there is a lot of new content available on a weekly basis. We highly recommend to use the various tools we've made available find out what is on.
Regards
Elna