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  araman
  Posted on:
  29th May 2010 09:05am
  
  Last Post 18th Aug 2010
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  Discussion: Adds on pay tv

  I had been paying for Austar TV for fifteen years and in the last three years I had noticed the huge increase of adds for actual products and not for the tv shows. It finally got to much and I cancelled my subscription, you would have thought I was thier last customer. I had a phone call nearly every day for a week and about the same sms's telling me how much they were improving the service. Until then the only time you heard from them was when you were late making a payment. With the new free to air digetel channels I do not miss pay tv that much, only I can not get my favourite westen shows anymore.
  
  

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  Steve
  Posted on:
  19th Jul 2010 01:15pm

  Steve says: I agree with you completely, we have had foxtel for a couple of years now and it is ridiculous how many ads that they have. I understand that they need to make money but the amount that we pay a month for the whole package with extra boxes makes me really dislike them. I do like that the AFL that they show is ad free during the game which is one of the main reasons that we decided to go with pay tv in the first place, when that changes I dont know if it is worth keeping any more.
  
  

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  nugget
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  18th Aug 2010 01:57pm

  nugget says: Pay TV has most likely increased their advertising due to the more people that sign up to Pay TV making it more valuable to advertisers. As the person above has said that it does need to make its money and no doubt this is so it can screen the show it does...
  
  I think the purpose of Pay TV is to show TV shows that the free to air channels do not which it does so I don't see any harm in having ads run throughout the shows (hence why I still have Foxtel and watch it). You'll probably notice this will occur on the new free to air digital channels too once more people tune to them as well I imagine..
  
  if the only reason you miss Pay TV is because you can't watch the Western Show then i think it was a wise move to cancel the subscription and save yourself some money :)
  
  

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