For you soccer football fanatics out there in Jakarta, you might must wonder where did the action go on your- still not a year- Astro TV. Turns out a new player in the pay TV market, Aora TV, has bought the rights of the 2008-09 season. The rates for getting the action without killing your bandwidth is going to be Rp. 1,7 million for a year and has to be paid upfront. If you decide to cancel the subscription before a year you are going to get Rp. 200,000 back. This service currently features only 12 channels, but has the History Channel and The Crime and Investigation channel for those history and crime buffs out there. According to an email I recieved from Aora TV, they plan to add on 50-70 channels between now and January. Those channels will include all of Astro’s channel plus some more interesting content not on Astro such as TV3 Malaysia and HBO SIgnature. If you can’t wait to cancel your Astro subscription and your less than a year in subscribing, it will cost Rp. 500,000 to cancel it. Plus to add on the burden of TV monopolying, Serie A, which last year was available on Free to air TV, now only is available on TelkomVision. Ouch!
