on thursday at the office, a colleague told me about the new dstv explorer deal.
which made me annoyed because of the dstv habit of screwing over early adopters...
which made me think about how much i am paying each month
which made me think about how little i was getting, & how bad the content is.
so i gave dstv a call & cancelled my 20+ year mnet / dstv account...
i did try the unotelly / netflix thing a while back, but it never really stuck because i went with a wdtv live which i found to be slow, buggy & it couldn't cope very well with media files.
so i paid extra, & bought a roku, which was delivered to my door on saturday by mr delivery.
it took me w a while, but i got it up & running & connected to netflix last night.
for those who may be interested the process is:
- open a unotelly account
- set up your router with the unotelly ip addresses
- set up a security policy on your router so that the roku can't respond when netflix interrogates it
- set up a roku account, using a usa address (use a random address generator to ensure that you have a valid address & zip code), your actual c/card details & a phony telephone number
- connect the roku & link it to your roku account
- set up paid content provider accounts (i went for netflix, hulu, & a free trial of showtime)
- set up free content providers (pandora ftw )
i guess i'll have to find a sports channel sometime. so i can watch moto gp & formula 1, but i currently have way, way more content, on demand, than dstv could ever dream of, and way cheaper
- unotelly @ 4,30 a month
- hulu at 7.99 a month
- netflix at 9.99 a month
i don't think i will be keeping showtime. i just don't see the value compared to the other 2.
so in total around 330 a month - i already had an uncapped internet.
the only painful part is that it will get more expensive each month as the zar dies...
which made me annoyed because of the dstv habit of screwing over early adopters...
which made me think about how much i am paying each month
which made me think about how little i was getting, & how bad the content is.
so i gave dstv a call & cancelled my 20+ year mnet / dstv account...
i did try the unotelly / netflix thing a while back, but it never really stuck because i went with a wdtv live which i found to be slow, buggy & it couldn't cope very well with media files.
so i paid extra, & bought a roku, which was delivered to my door on saturday by mr delivery.
it took me w a while, but i got it up & running & connected to netflix last night.
for those who may be interested the process is:
- open a unotelly account
- set up your router with the unotelly ip addresses
- set up a security policy on your router so that the roku can't respond when netflix interrogates it
- set up a roku account, using a usa address (use a random address generator to ensure that you have a valid address & zip code), your actual c/card details & a phony telephone number
- connect the roku & link it to your roku account
- set up paid content provider accounts (i went for netflix, hulu, & a free trial of showtime)
- set up free content providers (pandora ftw )
i guess i'll have to find a sports channel sometime. so i can watch moto gp & formula 1, but i currently have way, way more content, on demand, than dstv could ever dream of, and way cheaper
- unotelly @ 4,30 a month
- hulu at 7.99 a month
- netflix at 9.99 a month
i don't think i will be keeping showtime. i just don't see the value compared to the other 2.
so in total around 330 a month - i already had an uncapped internet.
the only painful part is that it will get more expensive each month as the zar dies...
