Monday, June 25, 2007

What is happening no Star Movies, Star Plus yet?

We are receiving reports that Star Movies and Star Plus are still not yet available after they went off air on June 21st. According to initial reports Star World is being telecast via Tata SKY which is not legal but we wonder why they do not do the same with Star Movies and Star Plus. One reason could be because the Star Movies that Comet Cable shows is the East Asia feed but Star Movies on Tata SKY is the Indian feed. Maybe the same reason applies for Star Plus. Hopefully a Comet Subscriber could enlighten us whether they were receiving the Indian feed of Star Plus or some other feed. Star World would not have been a problem for Comet Cable since the feed they telecasted is the same Indian feed that is being carried by Tata SKY.

Comet Cable had promised its subscribers that the problem will be sorted out within the day but so far nothing has happened. At the moment they seem to be telecasting some DD Hindi channels as a replacement.

Comet Cable has to get its act together soon since rival pay television provider Dialog TV have signed up with Star and will be providing their channels by the end of this month. For Comet to survive Comet Digital is a must or else they will be fighting a loosing battle since more competition is in the horizon from SLT IPTV and a probable expansion of LBN Digital services.

31 comments:

arnold perera said...

dialog tv has hell of issues, if U discuss it here U all will go mad. U have to learn, how 1 can be treated like shit just for 25 and 50 rupees.
dtv punishes their customers who R paying 1375/- to pay 1400/- to get all channels.

Anonymous said...

Will there be an issue with STAR Sports as well?

Anonymous said...

Admin,

We were receiving Indian feeds of Star Movies, Star Plus & Star World.

Anonymous said...

It seems that comet is having problems.

Anonymous said...

Still no Star Movies & Star Plus
as of 8.30 am today.

The newest "story" told by customer care is that they have 2 recivers for Star Movies & Star Plus and both are burned so have to get from India and will be ok within the week.
First it was a small technical problem then Problem with 2 dishes
now this. What a joke! do they think we are so stupid to belive this shit.

No point in scolding the customer care guys after all they are just doing a job
I think comet are in a deep shit hole

Anonymous said...

Oya comet jarawa wisikarala DialogTV ganing.

Anonymous said...

Comet eka eithy James Scooby,kiyanne Scobby Doo ge thatha,Scrappy Doo ge seeya.

Anonymous said...

how doo yoo doo ge nayek da? :-)

hiru said...

Sell Off
27 June 2007 05:59:04
Sri Lanka pay TV firm loses Aussie investor


June 27, 2007 (LBO) -
Ultrapay Limited, the Australian broadband and mobile wireless services company, has sold the stake it held in Sri Lanka's Ruhuna Multivision pay tv business, the company said.


Ultrapay held the stake in Ruhuna Multivision, which runs Comet Cable, through its subsidiary Chalmway Private Limited.

The company says the sale netted 1.2 million Australian dollars.

“The profit received on the sale of the Chalmway business was at the top end of our expectations," Michael Boyd, Chairman of UltraPay Limited said in a regulatory filing.

"It is a pleasing outcome given the considerable uncertainty surrounding the sale and the difficult environment of Sri Lanka.”

It was not clear who the buyer was.

Officials from Multivision were not available for comment.

The Southern Development Authority (SDA) is also a 50 percent shareholder in Multivision.

Last year, the local pay tv company faced a withdrawal of its broadcast rights after defaulting on fees. The SDA owns the broadcast license for Ruhuna Multivision (Pvt) Limited.


Comet Cable has an 18,000 strong customer base and is one of the oldest pay television companies in Sri Lanka with channels ranging from movies, sports, fashion to music.

Anonymous said...

Uge akkage putha

Anonymous said...

Ah, what 2 dooo ge malli :-)

Anonymous said...

“The profit received on the sale of the Chalmway business was at the top end of our expectations," Michael Boyd, Chairman of UltraPay Limited said in a regulatory filing.

God Bless you buyer!!!

Anonymous said...

some info from my friend,,
he told me, comet will upgarde to 102 channels in near future..
how is that!!

Anonymous said...

shoke boruwa meya....

Anonymous said...

anon @ 12:32 PM

Tell them to give the 2 star channels first then we'll talk about 102

Anonymous said...

Ei 2k kiyannako 3k

Anonymous said...

This sale story is fabricated by "scooby doo" himself to boost the imgage of his company in Australia,which is virtualy banckrupt.

No one has bought the shares its all lies.

Anonymous said...

anon @ 3:19

The sale has been announced by UltraPay as part of a leagal requirment to disclose price sensitive information to the australian stock exchange
if this announcement is not true Ultrapy directors will have to face legal sanctions in Australia

Anonymous said...

Comet Bloggers,

STAR WORLD has now gone off the air.

Thus star package no longer exists on Comet due to non payment.

Anonymous said...

It seems that comet has not paid Star and the star package is off. They were showing star world from tatasky. Tatasky got to know about it and disconected it too. I realy don't know what is next.

Anonymous said...

Looks like Comet is absolutely unconcerned about it's customer base.
Customer service informed me last afternoon that Star will be back to normal by Friday (Ha ha! - what a joke). Even if they have lost Star temporarily why the hell can't they fill these 3 channels with some FTA channels like Al Jazeera & ABC for the moment? I sent the buggers an email to this effect - but there has been a loud silence from their end up to this moment.
Why doesn't the new Owner at least issue a statement re-assuring the subscribers of an improved service in the near future? Even if they do not wish to address us directly, surely they could place a notice on their web-site.
I will definitely not be paying my subscription fee for July 2007 until Star is restored because Comet is not providing me with the 18 channels I have subscribed to.

Anonymous said...

non of the providers (Comet,LBN,DTV) do not have a good customer service

Anonymous said...

pls take non as any..sorry about it

Anonymous said...

dialog bloggers are asking questions and after sometime they are posting the answeres.
What kind of joke is this??????????????

Anonymous said...

DTV got ass burning issues, and have no time left to save their money.
All fools has go for 1400/- + VAT package to see even silly channel

Anonymous said...

api dannawa umba (annon 3.55 & 4.00) DTV customer kekenk kiyala....nikan boruwata DTV ekey boru adu paardu kiyala....passey honda comments daa ganna hadanawa..

Anonymous said...

oya kargey kargeth adu paardu thiayanawa

Anonymous said...

When i called comet in the morning a guy there said star world will be back in operation by tonite

7.00 pm now and still no star world

Anonymous said...

DTV sucks
DTV sucks
DTV sucks
DTV sucks
DTV sucks
DTV sucks
DTV sucks

aiyoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo DTV sucks

Anonymous said...

What are the new owners of Comet doing without informing the coustmers of their new moves. If starsports + ESPN goes there wont be any with comet.

Anonymous said...

Guys I have a sneaky feeling like this,

What if Comet has not actually been sold and James scobie has taken all the money and run to Australia.The Australian company Ultrapy has said that they have recived 1.2 million Aus $ for the sale but not from who they have recived it from so they are some what ok legally in Australia

This ties in with the new owners being reluctant to announce themselves and not paying of dues to Star TV,....etc

I hope what i said above proves to be false because otherwise we comet customers will be finished