Astro Sucks Big Time
Astro, the monopoly cable tv company in Malaysia announced that they are going to increase the subscription rate by 15% on 1st June 2007. Fine, as long as quality programs are aired.
I have grown immune to the fact that Astro programs are infested with advertisements, repeats and more advertisements. They are the monopoly, if you don’t watch Astro, you watch government controlled TV stations and believe me they sucks even worse.
There’s this new channel 78 on Astro, where there’s alot of nice and interesting programs about cars, fishing and all things macho. Have enjoyed it so much over the last one week or so. Finally, a channel I can watch day in day out. Much to my horror, I found out yesterday that the most of the programs on channel 78 are outdated, mostly are from the year 2002-2003.
I could watch outdated National Geographic programs but I just cannot accept a 2002 car as the latest model.
Shove it up your ass, Astro!
Miserable and Irritatable
May 11th, 2007 at 8:41 am
U have lotsa options. Decrease package/channels, unsubscribe Astro, watch less tv, etc. I think it’s fair they increase the price looking at the increase number of channels. There’s no free lunch in this world
May 11th, 2007 at 8:56 am
nobody asks for new channels. previous channels was good enough for me. i think the consumers committee could do something here, because astro subsribers was forced to buy something that they don’t really need! coz as a user, you have the right to choose.
eg. I buy the cartoon package, I want to watch 60, 61, and 62.. but I don’t want to subscribe to 63! why must I pay for that no 63 if I don’t want to watch it??
May 12th, 2007 at 1:42 am
hcfoo: no free lunch but me lunch is getting more expensive by the day. I duly cancelled the sports package.
xazuru: I don’t think we consumers got any right in the eye of the monopolist.
May 13th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Hurm.. i had thought so .. and we had thought so that many people will suck us down. But there is nothing we (ASTRO) can do. The price from the distributor was high already. I was involve in ASTRO reprising analysis and after the analysis, we can see it clearly, why price hike is needed.
for xazuru . no way you can do that:D it come in package. Can you just buy toothpaste without the tube? you will need to carry them by your hand.just buy the paste only:D
and i agree with hcfoo .. You guys have a lots of choice :D. Rather you make the right choice or not:D and choices has change Spiderman To VENOM.
CHAIOS:D
May 31st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
dude i completely agree with you… astro sucks big time…. even my third world country where i come from has better tv channels for way lower price… and they are all up to date… rarely do they repeat anything…. i gotta agree with ya man astro sucks big time… and i realized that 4 years ago when i first came to malaysia… no offence to malaysia… i love malaysia… but astro sucks… maybe its bcz they dont hv any competition…. and sports…. what can i say… you gotta pay 100 bloody bucks to watch world cup and in my country its literally FOC!!!!!