Euro 2012 is starting in one week. The other day, I called Canal Satellite and talked to a nice lady there:
Me: Hi, I would like to know if I’ll be able to watch all the Euro 2012 matches on Canal Satellite?
Her: Yes. All the matches are going to be  shown on channel 72 except a few which will be shown on channel 77.
Me: Channels 72 and 77 are not HD channels so are you implying that we won’t have any Euro 2012 matches in HD on Canal Satellite?
Her: Yes.
Me: What about matches being shown on TF1 and M6. Surely, those are going to be in HD?
Her: We will blank the screen during matches on TF1 and M6 because, well, they haven’t secured the rights to broadcast in Mauritius.
So no Euro 2012 matches in HD for Mauritians this year. Pity so many of us have invested thousands and thousands of rupees over the years to have a nice HD installation at home to watch football.
Maurice, c’est un plaisir… en SD.
Glossary
- HD: High definition = great looking pictures on your new LCD TV.
- SD: Standard definition = you could have used your old TV, you know the one which looked like an aquarium.
Could be worse. Forget HD, how about watching only 8 matches?
Brought to you by MBC. :)
Yeah. That’s so bad. I wonder what our Rs 100 monthly payments are being used for?
I’ve been to the “new” MBC Building a few times now for work – 1 thing I can’t help to miss out everytime is the 5-6 attendants PER floor idling around with nothing to do, gossiping or reading the paper.
That’s part of where our Rs100 is going each month :)
Almost related also – that Star Cinemas will not be playing “The Avengers” movie in Mauritius…
Last time you developed an amazing android application for World Cup 2010 which was downloaded by around 15K android users. Have you planned to release one for Euro 2012? would be great! :)
we’ve got a weird country where corporates are kings and customers are slave!
@Joshan Our Euro 2012 app will be released this afternoon if everything goes well. We’ve been working on it for a few days now ;-)
Good thing we bought DSTV :) the HD channels are great. I would totally recommend
Did you, Shane, have to buy the HD decoder at Rs 16,000?
Yeah this is the bad part, the HD decoder is pretty expensive but it records hd movies and has a lot fo space on it. Im not sure about the size of the hard drive but i know when i record a full hd movie it takes only around 2% of space
I wonder why they don’t rent the HD decoder like CanalSat and Parabole do?!?
Do like me… p2p streaming is the way to go… I’ve cancelled my Canalsat membership long ago and all i can say is good riddance…
No need for recording, practically everything is available on the internet these days with a single click.
On a side note, Web TV is the way forward. My PS3’s Showtime has brought Web TV to my living room and my family and I say a BIG thank you!
Btw MBC should be rebranded : iMBCilité :)