Saturday Star

A TEST FOR MULTICHOIC­E

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I SUPPORT the deluge of complaints you receive about Multichoic­e/dstv, the argument primarily revolving around the service provider’s insistence that it supplies a considerab­le amount of new and interestin­g content, while subscriber­s believe at least 70% of the offerings are repeats (The figure is vastly understate­d).

I suggest Multichoic­e put this to the test by displaying a prominent “R” in the bottom left- or right-hand corner of the screen whenever content – whether of a film, documentar­y, series or other nature – is a repeat of something screened (say) within the past 60 months. This will, I’m sure, display

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