Hi All, After last weeks boxing going to Setanta 2, and it looks like the JMM and Diaz fight doing the same, I want top know why? Is it a fdifferent receiver? I pay for Setanta so surely I should get channel 2 as part of the package? Any Setanrta subscibers with help would be appreciated as I do not want to miss this coming fight......
If you subscribe through Sky or Virgin then you should get Setanta 2. However, if you get Setanta through Freeview then you don't.
It's a total **** take. The whole reason why I subscribe to setanta (through freeview) is so that I don't have to watch big fights via my shitty little computer screen...but now they're telling me that this is exactly what I have to do in order to see the sort of fights that I pay £10.99 a month specifically in order to see on my television! And I even have to pay an extra £2.99 a month to do that! It's very frustrating, and I feel like they're taking liberties tbh. I'll just cancel and switch to illegal streaming if it carries on.
I very much doubt they do it to take liberties, what in God's name benefit would they get? Almost certainly some kind of licensing issue - don't they have to shut down at 3am on Setanta one or something daft like that?
look they got this fight which is good enough for me but i do feel sorry if you ahve freeview but get it on broadband as its good quality and cheaper and has the archives of all the old fights
They're practically rail roading their freeview subscribers into having to buy the broadband service. That's an extra £2.99 a month. They're also continuing to promote the idea to freeview viewers that subscribing to setanta means getting all of their top boxing (it's certainly why I bought it). This is clearly untrue (unless you pay extra for the broadband). They are taking liberties imo. The switch over to a top up channel has been done on previous occasions. I don't see why it can't be again....but instead they want to encourage me to fork out more money so that I can watch on my crappy little computer screen. They're taking the ****.
It's a ****ign joke that's what it is. I cancelled Setanta last on Sunday because of this ****, dickheads.
its a money making excercise but what do you expect, they pay alot of money for the boxing, and on most occasions they deliver the goods. if most people are watching the boxing on freeview then at the end of the day they aint going to make a profit. setanta is business and it has to make money for them. look at it this way, they could have continued showing boxing on setanta 1, but that might have prevented them from coughing up the money for diaz vs marquez.
You do realize that people have to pay a monthly fee to watch setanta through freeview? I'm paying £10.99 a month for the service.....but I'm not getting the full product.
Cancel the freeview subscription and use the broadband service. £7.99 a month including Setanta 2 and the rather good archive service. (Full bills are available next day and stay there for months)
I think they def. need to be more clear on what the limitations of the Freeview service are. As a boxing fan I wouldn't subscribe to Setanta if I was stuck with Freeview.
Bunce and Kerr have been unusually quiet about this but I would hope they are looking into it. I can kind of understand if the boxing clashes with a live UFC, but not recorded French football. Keep the pressure on, I'm sure they will listen.