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In all honesty, I've pretty much given up on this forum and only visited this thread today as I still had email notifications for these replies. My last attempts at interaction here, many months ago, were about films with non-English parts not having the subtitles (that are present on DVDs, blurays and elsewhere), so films like Stargate, The Longest Day, etc, become pretty much unwatchable. I wrote a long post here about it, and every time it would disappear shortly after posting. Eventually I think I posted here about what was happening and one of the staff in this thread insisted they welcomed my feedback and it wasn't deliberate that my posts were disappearing. Nothing was done about sorting out the subtitles or taking it up with the distributor if necessary, when I reported the issue on Twitter the 'customer care team' told me that's how the films come and there's nothing they can do about it.   So my takeaway as someone who still spends a fair bit of money on a Premium subscription each month is that: - They aren't too bothered if their paying customers spend a long time submitting feedback only for it to 'disappear', certainly not caring enough to restore the posts or sort out the forum issue if there is one. Not how I'd want to treat customers but each to their own. - They don't mind that they are broadcasting content, that they've bought the rights to, lacking something as basic yet important as subtitles for non-English parts. Guess the frustration this causes customers isn't enough for someone to actually do a bit of work, escalate if necessary and resolve the problem. I do miss the forum and the interactions with some of you, it was good while it lasted. And occasionally we even got responses that in my opinion helped Multichoice improve their service. Just about every night now I notice the EPG is packed with factual errors and amateurish spelling/grammer mistakes and think how I might have posted them on a thread in the old forum. No point here though, they'd just be deleted or ignored. Nobody seems to care about improving the service at this point. And yet there are more competitors rising all the time. Best wishes to those who are still here and reading this. ... View more

Khoros? Well, whoever they may be can they really be any worse than what has gone on before? Although NO PLATFORM PROVIDER will be any good if they don't have the full support of MC. Let's see what happens further and hopefully there will be an all round improvement to this Community. Where'd you see this about Khoros being involved here? ... View more

Haven't been to their Facebook page. Never knew they had one. Will MAYBE give it a view later and see what they have to offer. ... View more

I have very little, if any, complaints when it comes to something like a Tom Cruise type Pop-Up channel coming and then having to see repeats of his movies being shown. It's a retrospective of his work in the cinema. Likewise should this happen for any other actor or director. Whether I'd watch them or not makes no difference as I'm certain that other people would enjoy such an offering. In this case, Tom Cruise, I suppose I may watch a film or two but that will depend on what else is on offer.     ... View more

I see you did understand in your later post :-D   Would be very interesting if someone did a more structured cost and content comparison, if possible... or MC could give us the facts. ... View more

The responses highlight what I have always said - they do not want to (or can't afford to) spend money on us. To say they skipped season to bring us "more recent" episodes is hardly reassuring when we have to date not seen anything newer than 2014. And for a repeat Pointless episode to be the 2nd most watched program only reflects on how bad the rest of the channel's content is in my opinion!   But I have given up on this - we are just falling further behind all the time. Yay, so we are getting a new season next year. But 2 to 3 new season are aired each year - so we will be one or two seasons further behind by the end of the year that at the beginning.   ... View more

Thanks for the information Optimist.   I must be the only person that thinks this film is highly overrated. When I saw it I couldn't understand why it achieved all the accolades that it did receive. Maybe I was just in the wrong frame of mind when I saw it? Perhaps I was expecting a lot more from the movie and my expectations were too high? I do have it in my DVD collection so perhaps I should give it another viewing.   But, going by the comments of most who have seen it I would recommend that anyone who hasn't yet seen this movie take this opportunity of watching it.  ... View more

Mad Cat, you, or anyone else, watching this series? Is it worth watching?  ... View more

Not sure if anyone else here is watching this series but I'm finding it to be quite good. Not one of those special effects, lots of swearing etc type of police stories but is one with decent storylines. Maybe others will be able to pick holes in it but, for me, it's a series worth watching.  BUT. I will RECOMMEND that if you've never seen any of the previous four series, one being screened at the moment is series five, that you perhaps watch from series one which is available on Showmax. This will give you a better background to the different characters.  ... View more

@Optimist, thanks for your feedback. We will pass on your message :-).  ... View more

Due to previous problems when editing a post I have decided to rather correct the previous post by doing so here.  You may have seen FOUR names mentioned regarding those that have already been approved for the Predictor League. Brandon4ZN was approved after he had received an e-mail and really shouldn't have been included with the other three names. Sorry for that. But at least you now know that I can still count and add correctly.  ... View more

Sankie, guess that you, my wife and myself are together in some sort of time warp. Just wish I knew where this series was shown before.  ... View more

Yes it is shocking that SABC will not be showing these games but their finances are apparently in a mess. Won't say anymore about that as it starts heading into the political side of things.  Hooray, the Proteas have finally broken their duck and are currently sitting on one point. Thanks to the rain. I'm not too certain this side would have beaten the West Indies who aren't a bad side from what I've seen. Have some big hitters and a pretty decent fast bowling attack. Not sure if this one point now makes it impossible, or virtually impossible, for us to make it through even if we manage to win all our remaining games?  ... View more

Citanul, I saw your post and was highly offended by what you had written there. So much so that I reported you to the higher authoroties here and had them remove it. How dare you attack me in that way. Why is it that you never agree with me? Blah blah. Don't take any notice of that rubbish in paragraph one. None of it is true. Just meant as a bit of a joke.   You say you actually saw your original post? Seem to remember there having been some problem before when someone, me for one, edited a post and then it also disappeared never to be seen again. A fault with the system or the one posting the edited message?  ... View more

Thanks Krugie. Much appreciated. Think that the only time I've used the TV button on the remote was for when I'd been watching something in the buffer and wanted to get back to real time tv.  ... View more

Great hearing from you again Toto. However, as to your dethroning Manchester City I feel you may still have a while to wait before this happens. At the moment your side is in disarray and may take a long time to recover. You are now experiencing what Liverpool went through for a good number of years. We may not dethrone City this season, or perhaps may never do so, but at least we are giving them a run for their money when it comes to winning the league. Something which no other side is even coming close to doing. Even if, as now seems very likely, we fail to pick up any trophies this year I am still extremely happy with where we are and how we've progressed over the past few years. Can only see us improving even more over the next year or two. Especially if Klopp is still our manager. He is an attraction for lots of younger players who want to come and play under him. So, things are all good. Although a trophy or two are long overdue.  ... View more

I fully agree  @Beetle - having pop-up ads should be banned outright but to not notice that it covers sub-titles is unforgivable. It is no different to having a voice-over announcement while dialogue is in progress. ... View more

Just took a look at this week's screenings and there are some very good movies going to be shown. First one up is, was?, The Longest Day dealing with the D-Day landings. Was very good way back then but may be a bit too ..... sanitized? for today's audience. Should still be worth a watch though. In amongst all the movies, war and otherwise, is the series Band of Brothers. This has been shown on Mnet before but I'd wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who hasn't yet seen it. Lots of good to excellent war movies being screened during this first week along with a couple of non war ones. Spartacus, starring Kirk Douglas was very good when it first came out but having seen it again not too long ago it does appear a bit dated. But, if you have nothing else to watch, it may be worthwhile. I'll POSSIBLY give Pearl Harbour another viewing. Wasn't in the least bit impressed by it when I first saw it. Not following all the hype that came out with it at the time. Maybe that was the problem. I was expecting too much? Anyway we all have our own likes and dislikes when it comes to films so if you have not yet browsed the onscreen TV Guide for this channel then perhaps you ought to do so. You may find something to your liking.  ... View more

Yep. Unfortunately not many Westerns get made these days. Which is a bit of a pity. Maybe one day the Pop Up Channel can dedicate some time to only showing Western movies? Although I'm not too sure how many will really be interested in them.  ... View more

Thanks Grace_DStv1. Hopefully I/we'll be hearing from you.  ... View more

@Beetle, thank you ;).  ... View more

Can we please delete the rugby thread from the Community Forum. This from a Stormers supporter. Thank you.  Only kidding, for now anyway. Congratulations to you Bulls supporters on your team's humiliation of the barely blowing windpomps from down south. Definitely nothing storming about this Western Cape outfit. Cannot say too much about the 'game' as I switched to something else at halftime. For anyone who watched the game can they please tell me what the Stormers hooker is in the side for? Definitely cannot be for his accurate line out throws. Useless &^&%$%&* . Can remember him being poor in this regard last season and doesn't seem to have improved at all this season. Don't they practice throwing in at the lineouts?  Who is the current Springbok left wing? Whoever this player is his position is in grave danger. That left wing of yours, the Bulls, looked to be very VERY good. Although playing against a team that barely raised a whimper wasn't too much of a test for him. But coming from a seven a side team I would imagine he can tackle pretty well.  Oh well, just thought I'd be a sportsman and congratulate the Blue Bulls supporters here. Well done.  ... View more

@Beetle wrote: Not looking at any of the other offerings. Such as the Russian one mentioned by Optimist. So, no doubt, I'm missing out on a number of decent films. For those interested - it turns out that they put that movie on CU+  , only expires on the 5th of Feb. so you'll have a whole year to see it ;-)   But my mistake - that one wasn't from Sundance, it was on 104 ... View more