Setanta - any more boxing or not?

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 03 Jul 2007, 08:25

So Setanta have a 6-fight deal with Hobson, not Hatton...Anyone going to pay £15 a month to see Clinton fight a retread opponent (Johnson or Gonzalez or maybe Delisle) once a year?

They had a great June - two live cards worth staying up for. But there appears to be nothing on in the next two weeks. Surely there are ppl who got Setantan just for the boxing. So the Q is, what are we getting next, how often are we getting fights, and is it worth keeping if you dn't like gold or football?

Phenomenal-Nutrition · Post by **Phenomenal-Nutrition** » 03 Jul 2007, 08:48

I'm cancelling when the free period is up, I think I have to cancel in August or something

rhino222 · Post by **rhino222** » 03 Jul 2007, 09:03

tell him there wont be a next bill, dont let the bastards keep deferring it, usual marketting tactics aimed at you missing the deadline and therefore getting charged again.

personally, id call him, tell him there will be no more bills, then cancel the DD at the bank.

Chambers2 · Post by **Chambers2** » 03 Jul 2007, 09:20

livingstone cole wrote:Cheers for the advice amigo. I can be very naive at times, I trust people far more than I should. I'll be straight on the old blower.

They've done the same to me, I'll be cancelling the DD (just in case)

earsjohn · Post by **earsjohn** » 03 Jul 2007, 09:53

I don't wish to sound like a Setanta sympathiser, but when I signed up for the Haton fight it was part of a deal whereby I paid one months subs (£10) and got 2 months free. They did this specifically to entice people to stick with them for a while, without having to pay and then decide in the middle of August (after a couple of Prem games).

I'm sure if you cancel now, you will not be entitled to your free 2 months later and could therefore miss out on any fights that do get arranged.

Consumer rights protect customers from being forced into a contract they do not wish to be part of, so you can demand to cancel at any time.

Kilburn · Post by **Kilburn** » 03 Jul 2007, 09:58

I took a risk on the Hatton fight not living up to expectations and didn't order it. Glad I made that decision now.

Twinkle Toes · Post by **Twinkle Toes** » 03 Jul 2007, 10:55

This was the main reason I didn't sign up to Setanta - What does the future hold for boxing there?

Not a lot by the looks of it.

Glad I didn't sign up - I would have only saved a tenner and then been lumbered with a shitty channel with nothing on it that I want to watch for the next two months.

Let alone looking to catch the cancellation at the right time.

rhino222 · Post by **rhino222** » 03 Jul 2007, 11:52

Kilburn wrote:I took a risk on the Hatton fight not living up to expectations and didn't order it. Glad I made that decision now.

i did the same, i watched the hatton fight via a live internet link on sopcast... even saw matthew hattons fight, for what it was worth.

FREE !!

whiskey · Post by **whiskey** » 03 Jul 2007, 12:50

I got it for the cotto fight.

I think its a good deal for Cotto v Judah and Hatton v Castillo for £15.00

Had plenty of build up programmes to which i enjoyed.

I'd reserve cancelling just yet before the 20th - the Khan fight may be on there before then.

Chambers2 · Post by **Chambers2** » 03 Jul 2007, 12:57

Twinkle Toes wrote:
Glad I didn't sign up - I would have only saved a tenner and then been lumbered with a shitty channel with nothing on it that I want to watch for the next two months.
.

You don't have to watch it

It was £15 for 2 months of Setanta or £20 to get it on Box Office, no brainer for me

chief · Post by **chief** » 04 Jul 2007, 06:34

i bought the latest Hatton fight and recoreded it on Sky+.. The fight now seems to have been deleted.. Any ideas why????

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 04 Jul 2007, 06:40

chief wrote:i bought the latest Hatton fight and recoreded it on Sky+.. The fight now seems to have been deleted.. Any ideas why????

Because one of the wee fellers from the land o'leprachauns came through the magic setanta box while ye were asleep, and nicked if fer their lucky crock o' gold.

chief · Post by **chief** » 04 Jul 2007, 06:43

jamesmcdonnell wrote:
chief wrote:i bought the latest Hatton fight and recoreded it on Sky+.. The fight now seems to have been deleted.. Any ideas why????
Because one of the wee fellers from the land o'leprachauns came through the magic setanta box while ye were asleep, and nicked if fer their lucky crock o' gold.

:(

the luck o'the Irish....

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 04 Jul 2007, 06:53

chief wrote:
jamesmcdonnell wrote:
chief wrote:i bought the latest Hatton fight and recoreded it on Sky+.. The fight now seems to have been deleted.. Any ideas why????
Because one of the wee fellers from the land o'leprachauns came through the magic setanta box while ye were asleep, and nicked if fer their lucky crock o' gold.
:(

the luck o'the Irish....

In other words, fekk all luck.

Goz · Post by **Goz** » 04 Jul 2007, 07:29

chief wrote:i bought the latest Hatton fight and recoreded it on Sky+.. The fight now seems to have been deleted.. Any ideas why????

Sometimes they put notes on the Sky+ info telling you something will be deleted after a set period of time but they didn't with this, I was showing the fight to someone just this morning.

I think you need to ask questions in your household because somebody wanted to record something else and noticed your 5+ hour broadcast of the Hatton fight/event taking up 15% of your Sky + hard disc and thought 'I'll delete that so I can fit Eastenders omnibus on'!

The Blade · Post by **The Blade** » 04 Jul 2007, 22:34

livingstone cole wrote:I only purchased it for th Hatton fight. I've phoned up today to cancel it, the fellow on the phone told me to call back around the 20th of this month to avoid the next bill.

hasty maybe

let's see what happens ... Calzaghe etc

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 05 Jul 2007, 01:35

the thing is, if you want Hatton, you can always Sky Box Office it - unless he ends up on ITV and with prospective Mayweather level fights in the early hrs of the morning, which severely cuts vieiwng figures. Then again, maybe they'd stay up for Hatton. I mean ITV kicked things off by making a docu on why nobody's heard of Calzaghe...

Twinkle Toes · Post by **Twinkle Toes** » 05 Jul 2007, 03:52

Chambers2 wrote:
You don't have to watch it It was £15 for 2 months of Setanta or £20 to get it on Box Office, no brainer for me

Yeah, but you're the one worrying about what to do, not me - All these types of subsriptions work on folk not cancelling at the right time, then being lumbered for 12 months.

Then again, if SN network end up on there: Result :)

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 05 Jul 2007, 06:24

rhino222 wrote:
Kilburn wrote:I took a risk on the Hatton fight not living up to expectations and didn't order it. Glad I made that decision now.
i did the same, i watched the hatton fight via a live internet link on sopcast... even saw matthew hattons fight, for what it was worth.

FREE !!

"It's knock off Nigel, he buys knock off DVDs..."

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 05 Jul 2007, 06:34

That's got to be one of the worst, most pointless ads ever.

As if an Ad featuring some drunked old jock with a guitar embarrassing some bloke in a boozer is going to put anyone off. My mate earns about 150k a year, but he still buys all his DVD's off the chinese people who come around the boozers.

I'd have taken that guitar and shoved it up his arse, although knowing my recent luck, he'd have probably turned out to be a retired Royal Marine Commando, who would have proceeded to kill me in three moves

Thing is, I will bet my right arm, that the people who are behind these piracy operations are right nasty bastards, it's probably the triads.

Max Molyneux · Post by **Max Molyneux** » 05 Jul 2007, 07:00

You get most people even selling cheese or Gammon steaks they nicked out of Asda round here!

Chambers2 · Post by **Chambers2** » 05 Jul 2007, 08:47

Twinkle Toes wrote:
Chambers2 wrote:
You don't have to watch it It was £15 for 2 months of Setanta or £20 to get it on Box Office, no brainer for me
Yeah, but you're the one worrying about what to do, not me - All these types of subsriptions work on folk not cancelling at the right time, then being lumbered for 12 months.

Then again, if SN network end up on there: Result :)

There's no worrying going on here kidda

I'll just cancel my subscription on the 23rd July.

Totally agree about that ridiculous anti-pirating advert. I immediately went out and bought half a dozen dodgy DVD's

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 05 Jul 2007, 09:13

can't understand buying pirate DVD films myself. the DVD market is so saturated. big stores like HMV buying and selling at discount prices. just go on amazon.co.uk's marketplace sellers -all competing with each other and selling many a (relatively) recent release for peanuts. and you get well off tight arsed dicks buying pirate DVDs just so they can look like bad boys and tell their mates "I'm connected." also, if you have a multi region player, you can buy foreign region films on your own steam.

ok, if you want new films, fair enough, but quite often they're shit quality copies. the whole point of DVD is for quality, proper aspect ratios, recreating the cinema experience as closely as you can...Chinese DVDs always seem to be coated in a sheen of murk with overbright colors.

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 05 Jul 2007, 09:43

Autobarn wrote:can't understand buying pirate DVD films myself. the DVD market is so saturated. big stores like HMV buying and selling at discount prices. just go on amazon.co.uk's marketplace sellers -all competing with each other and selling many a (relatively) recent release for peanuts. and you get well off tight arsed dicks buying pirate DVDs just so they can look like bad boys and tell their mates "I'm connected." also, if you have a multi region player, you can buy foreign region films on your own steam.

ok, if you want new films, fair enough, but quite often they're shit quality copies. the whole point of DVD is for quality, proper aspect ratios, recreating the cinema experience as closely as you can...Chinese DVDs always seem to be coated in a sheen of murk with overbright colors.

Here's a good one

Sign up to amazon's DVD rental scheme, think you can get 6 a month for 3.99 at the moment.

Get hold of FabDVD decrypter (free download).

Hey presto, copy DVD's to your hard drive in 1-1 ration, so perfect top notch quality....then either burn to DVD (will have to shrink a bit or buy some 9gb DVD's), and play to your heart's content.

I don't buy those snide DVD's any more, the quality is generally piss poor, and the sound is often almost unintelligible.

101boxing · Post by **101boxing** » 06 Jul 2007, 05:58

jamesmcdonnell wrote:That's got to be one of the worst, most pointless ads ever.

As if an Ad featuring some drunked old jock with a guitar embarrassing some bloke in a boozer is going to put anyone off. My mate earns about 150k a year, but he still buys all his DVD's off the chinese people who come around the boozers.

I'd have taken that guitar and shoved it up his arse, although knowing my recent luck, he'd have probably turned out to be a retired Royal Marine Commando, who would have proceeded to kill me in three moves

Thing is, I will bet my right arm, that the people who are behind these piracy operations are right nasty bastards, it's probably the triads.

yeah, and don corleone is coming to get you!!

if you are going to fork out, get the real thing. if you wrote an article, and some shit head came in and put his name on it, claimed it as his and left you with your finger up your tea towel rack, you would not be best pleased.

pirate dvds and illegal posting of videos on the net is the work of scum bag thieves.