**FOXTEL'S NEW DIGITAL PACKAGE**

[wacko jacko 2004]

eFFECTIVE from March 2004

=========================

The new digital package will start from $48.95 for a basic
package.......

This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....

This compares more favorably than the soon-to-be-obsolete analog basic
package
which cost $45.95 (cable) or $48.95 (satellite) for a choice of only
25 channels.....

Perhaps digital will speed up the process of getting more Australians
to take up pay television.............

More details of the other packages to follow next week.....

TATA ;-)

[Alonzo]

According to this: http://www.foxtel.com.au/digital/channel_sale.jsp it's
starting at $68.90 a month.....


"wacko jacko 2004" <wackojacko2005@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:4ef6e559.0402122102.4abf1694@posting.google.c om...
> eFFECTIVE from March 2004
>
> =========================
>
> The new digital package will start from $48.95 for a basic
> package.......
>
> This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....
>
> This compares more favorably than the soon-to-be-obsolete analog basic
> package
> which cost $45.95 (cable) or $48.95 (satellite) for a choice of only
> 25 channels.....
>
> Perhaps digital will speed up the process of getting more Australians
> to take up pay television.............
>
> More details of the other packages to follow next week.....
>
> TATA ;-)

[GB]

$22pm is all I'd pay for Foxtel.
until the kids grow up and move out and I'll have more disposable income...

I watch too much FTA as it it.

"wacko jacko 2004" <wackojacko2005@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:4ef6e559.0402122102.4abf1694@posting.google.c om...
> eFFECTIVE from March 2004
>
> =========================
>
> The new digital package will start from $48.95 for a basic
> package.......
>
> This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....
>
> This compares more favorably than the soon-to-be-obsolete analog basic
> package
> which cost $45.95 (cable) or $48.95 (satellite) for a choice of only
> 25 channels.....
>
> Perhaps digital will speed up the process of getting more Australians
> to take up pay television.............
>
> More details of the other packages to follow next week.....
>
> TATA ;-)

[Craig Sutton]

"Alonzo" <abc@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:402c5cc1@usenet.per.paradox.net.au...
> According to this: http://www.foxtel.com.au/digital/channel_sale.jsp it's
> starting at $68.90 a month.....

Yes funny they leave out that $48.95 basic package...

Don't want people to be aware of it... more of the hype b.s

[Alonzo]

3 cheers for fuxtel.... NOT


"Craig Sutton" <suzXttozXnc@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
news:c0hmif$mm7$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>
> "Alonzo" <abc@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:402c5cc1@usenet.per.paradox.net.au...
> > According to this: http://www.foxtel.com.au/digital/channel_sale.jsp
it's
> > starting at $68.90 a month.....
>
> Yes funny they leave out that $48.95 basic package...
>
> Don't want people to be aware of it... more of the hype b.s
>
>

[E.T.]

"wacko jacko 2004" <wackojacko2005@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:4ef6e559.0402122102.4abf1694@posting.google.c om...
> eFFECTIVE from March 2004
>
> =========================
>
> The new digital package will start from $48.95 for a basic
> package.......
>
> This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....
>
> This compares more favorably than the soon-to-be-obsolete analog basic
> package

The existing "analogue" cable and digital satellite packages aren't going to
be obsolete any time soon. The changeover is supposed to take 2 1/2 years
and in that time I predict that there will be a lot of existing customers,
me for one, who won't be switching over to the new packages. In order to get
all of the channels that I'm getting now with Basic+Entertainment Plus+Movie
Essentials I'd have to go for the full platinum package at $94.95, which
will be an increase of $15.40 over what I'm now paying through Telstra.

So much for "empowering customers to choose". Fuck off Fuxtel.

> which cost $45.95 (cable) or $48.95 (satellite) for a choice of only
> 25 channels.....
>
> Perhaps digital will speed up the process of getting more Australians
> to take up pay television.............
>
Not fucking likely.

> More details of the other packages to follow next week.....
>
> TATA ;-)

[Rod Speed]

GB <guy@dilithiumNO_SPAM.com.au> wrote in message
news:402c5ccb$0$1757$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.a u...

> $22pm is all I'd pay for Foxtel.
> until the kids grow up and move out
> and I'll have more disposable income...

Just sell one of the kids.

Some stupids pay $40K class money for slitty eyed
kids from asia etc. Even your grossly inbred runts
should raise enough to fund a foxtel subs.

> I watch too much FTA as it it.

It shows.


> "wacko jacko 2004" <wackojacko2005@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:4ef6e559.0402122102.4abf1694@posting.google.c om...
> > eFFECTIVE from March 2004
> >
> > =========================
> >
> > The new digital package will start from $48.95 for a basic
> > package.......
> >
> > This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....
> >
> > This compares more favorably than the soon-to-be-obsolete analog basic
> > package
> > which cost $45.95 (cable) or $48.95 (satellite) for a choice of only
> > 25 channels.....
> >
> > Perhaps digital will speed up the process of getting more Australians
> > to take up pay television.............
> >
> > More details of the other packages to follow next week.....
> >
> > TATA ;-)
>
>

[Dave T.]

they've got fucken bucklys chance if they think they're going to get the
average aussie on a $100 a month television package.

"Alonzo" <abc@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:402c908d$1@usenet.per.paradox.net.au...
> 3 cheers for fuxtel.... NOT
>
>
> "Craig Sutton" <suzXttozXnc@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:c0hmif$mm7$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> >
> > "Alonzo" <abc@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:402c5cc1@usenet.per.paradox.net.au...
> > > According to this: http://www.foxtel.com.au/digital/channel_sale.jsp
> it's
> > > starting at $68.90 a month.....
> >
> > Yes funny they leave out that $48.95 basic package...
> >
> > Don't want people to be aware of it... more of the hype b.s
> >
> >
>
>

[Shells]

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c0ialj$16knd1$1@ID-69072.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> GB <guy@dilithiumNO_SPAM.com.au> wrote in message
> news:402c5ccb$0$1757$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.a u...
>
> > $22pm is all I'd pay for Foxtel.
> > until the kids grow up and move out
> > and I'll have more disposable income...
>
> Just sell one of the kids.
>
> Some stupids pay $40K class money for slitty eyed
> kids from asia etc. Even your grossly inbred runts
> should raise enough to fund a foxtel subs.
>
> > I watch too much FTA as it it.
>
> It shows.


Speed, you are still a wart on your daddy's flaccid and very small septic
penis but at least that approached some resemblance of originality, and lets
face it you are not renown as a very intelligent person are you?. So clap
those podgy cum stained hands of yours, well done you.


Shells

[Simmo]

Delving below your already low standards now Rod. Stop it.
"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c0ialj$16knd1$1@ID-69072.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> GB <guy@dilithiumNO_SPAM.com.au> wrote in message
> news:402c5ccb$0$1757$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.a u...
>
> > $22pm is all I'd pay for Foxtel.
> > until the kids grow up and move out
> > and I'll have more disposable income...
>
> Just sell one of the kids.
>
> Some stupids pay $40K class money for slitty eyed
> kids from asia etc. Even your grossly inbred runts
> should raise enough to fund a foxtel subs.
>
> > I watch too much FTA as it it.
>
> It shows.
>
>
> > "wacko jacko 2004" <wackojacko2005@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:4ef6e559.0402122102.4abf1694@posting.google.c om...
> > > eFFECTIVE from March 2004
> > >
> > > =========================
> > >
> > > The new digital package will start from $48.95 for a basic
> > > package.......
> > >
> > > This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....
> > >
> > > This compares more favorably than the soon-to-be-obsolete analog basic
> > > package
> > > which cost $45.95 (cable) or $48.95 (satellite) for a choice of only
> > > 25 channels.....
> > >
> > > Perhaps digital will speed up the process of getting more Australians
> > > to take up pay television.............
> > >
> > > More details of the other packages to follow next week.....
> > >
> > > TATA ;-)
> >
> >
>
>

[Shells]

"Simmo" <blahblahblah@figpond.com> wrote in message
news:Ox2Xb.54356$Wa.14260@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Delving below your already low standards now Rod. Stop it.


Sorry Simmo,

Bad little speed
bad little speed

Shells

[Miro]

"wacko jacko 2004" <wackojacko2005@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:4ef6e559.0402122102.4abf1694@posting.google.c om...
> eFFECTIVE from March 2004
>
> =========================
>
> The new digital package will start from $48.95 for a basic
> package.......
>
> This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....
>
> This compares more favorably than the soon-to-be-obsolete analog basic
> package
> which cost $45.95 (cable) or $48.95 (satellite) for a choice of only
> 25 channels.....
>
> Perhaps digital will speed up the process of getting more Australians
> to take up pay television.............
>
> More details of the other packages to follow next week.....

Im so glad I "waited" all these years.

[maxfli*]

"wacko jacko 2004" <wackojacko2005@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:4ef6e559.0402122102.4abf1694@posting.google.c om...
> eFFECTIVE from March 2004
>
> =========================
>
> The new digital package will start from $48.95 for a basic
> package.......
>
> This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....
>
> This compares more favorably than the soon-to-be-obsolete analog basic
> package
> which cost $45.95 (cable) or $48.95 (satellite) for a choice of only
> 25 channels.....
>
> Perhaps digital will speed up the process of getting more Australians
> to take up pay television.............
>
> More details of the other packages to follow next week.....
>
> TATA ;-)


This little gem shits me - new customers pay $55.95 to join up and
*existing* customers "only" have to pay $49.95 to transfer !!! Fuck off
Foxtel - what about rewarding your existing customers ya pack of arseholes.

[Paul]

wacko jacko 2004 wrote:

> This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....

I read that about 33 of those channels are just radio?

[Son of NewsMan]

maxfli* wrote:

> "wacko jacko 2004" <wackojacko2005@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:4ef6e559.0402122102.4abf1694@posting.google.c om...
> > eFFECTIVE from March 2004
> >
> > =========================
> >
> > The new digital package will start from $48.95 for a basic
> > package.......
> >
> > This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....
> >
> > This compares more favorably than the soon-to-be-obsolete analog basic
> > package
> > which cost $45.95 (cable) or $48.95 (satellite) for a choice of only
> > 25 channels.....
> >
> > Perhaps digital will speed up the process of getting more Australians
> > to take up pay television.............
> >
> > More details of the other packages to follow next week.....
> >
> > TATA ;-)
>
> This little gem shits me - new customers pay $55.95 to join up

try $149 for Big value and $359 for Digital Basic

> and
> *existing* customers "only" have to pay $49.95 to transfer !!! Fuck off
> Foxtel - what about rewarding your existing customers ya pack of arseholes.

[Son of NewsMan]

Paul wrote:

> wacko jacko 2004 wrote:
>
> > This includes 66 channels of which some will be time-shifted.....
>
> I read that about 33 of those channels are just radio?

24 at launch (which surprise surpise Optus iTV also had 24 digital radio
channels)

[Rebel without a Kenton]

In article <402cd301$0$5870$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
"last_on_the_bandwagon" <nunya@ozemail.com> wrote:

> It seems that the "new" channels are not as many as they made out - most are
> just time-shifted duplicate channels, or premium pay-per-view movies for
> which you now have the privelage of paying through the nose :)
>
> Good work Foxtel........am I disconnecting????
>
> "YES"
>
> Looks like I'm switching to Optus :)
>
> I will then get all of the shite filtered out of your $80.00 per month
> package with about 10 additional DIFFERENT watchable channels.....

I haven't heard anything about the optus plans for digital...are they
getting back into it ?

Only reason I'm interested in digital anything, is the improved audio
and video quality.

[GB]

thanks Shells (not), if it wasn't for your reply to its post I wouldn't have
even seen that this oxygen thief was still out there.

Simply ignore all its posts, and/or add it to your block filter list, then
Mr Rat Shite disappears instantly. It feeds of your replies you know,
starve it to death...

"Shells" <Meat@meataxe.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:c0ialj$16knd1$1@ID-69072.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >
> > GB <guy@dilithiumNO_SPAM.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:402c5ccb$0$1757$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.a u...
> >
> > > $22pm is all I'd pay for Foxtel.
> > > until the kids grow up and move out
> > > and I'll have more disposable income...
> >
> > Just sell one of the kids.
> >
> > Some stupids pay $40K class money for slitty eyed
> > kids from asia etc. Even your grossly inbred runts
> > should raise enough to fund a foxtel subs.
> >
> > > I watch too much FTA as it it.
> >
> > It shows.
>
>
> Speed, you are still a wart on your daddy's flaccid and very small septic
> penis but at least that approached some resemblance of originality, and
lets
> face it you are not renown as a very intelligent person are you?. So clap
> those podgy cum stained hands of yours, well done you.
>
>
> Shells
>
>
>

[Paul]

Rebel without a Kenton wrote:

> Only reason I'm interested in digital anything, is the improved audio
> and video quality.

That's what DVDs are for. BOWM -- Buy Once Watch Many. ;)

[GB]

I wish it would KF me, consider yourself one up
I'm sure if you step on the shell it will all squish out, just like a
snail...

"Byron John Forbes" <hosh@spamdodo.com.au> wrote in message
news:402d9e99@news.comindico.com.au...
>
> "GB" <guy@dilithiumNO_SPAM.com.au> wrote in message
> news:402d7783$0$1721$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.a u...
> > thanks Shells (not), if it wasn't for your reply to its post I wouldn't
> have
> > even seen that this oxygen thief was still out there.
> >
> > Simply ignore all its posts, and/or add it to your block filter list,
then
> > Mr Rat Shite disappears instantly. It feeds of your replies you know,
> > starve it to death...
> >
>
> Well, it wont play with me anymore! I think it killfiled me - sook! Any
> ideas how to get it out of it's shell?
>
>