DStv HD here soon

There is no additional subscription fee for the HD service, and all MultiChoice decoders, including entry-level ones, will eventually support HD. “One shouldn’t be looking at the size of the market for HD because the future is HD, end of story,” says Letele.
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If the entry level decoders will "eventually" support HD, then why the push to sell these new HD units?
 
And will Monochoice be repurchasing old PVR decoders?
 
Sounds nice and everything, but you still need to be a 'full' DSTV subscriber, and also own one of those HD Decoders... Got a HD TV, normal DSTV decoder, on the lowest package, the R240 a jear for only the SABC channels... In other words, I will not be using the new HD service :(
 
EchoZA said:
If the entry level decoders will "eventually" support HD, then why the push to sell these new HD units?
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They never will dude, one of the reasons I waited for pvr, but it is still not cheap. :|

And only one channel? I was really hoping for more but as it was said up above, at least it is a step in the right direction.
 
Can anyone tell me what happens if you use a normal Coax cable to connect to your TV from the new HD decoder? Will you still have HD signal? I'm not worried about sound bit - but I want the picture be as high res as possible.

I split my signal to 2 TV's and therefore have about 12m of cable running to second TV - a basic HDMI 3m cable costs at least R300......not even sure if you can get them in 12m lengths.
 
Only the HDMI output will display in HD since it is supports HDCP....
 
isn't it possible to lenghten a hdmi cable - i mean, it's just wire?
(Just the part in between)
 
TimTDP said:
According to DSTV's website, the HD PVR is not be a dual view PVR
So now I need two HD decoders!
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You are ment to be able to link your current PVR to your HD one, giving you 3 chan's at once and 2 recorders at once.
 
Keeper said:
isn't it possible to lenghten a hdmi cable - i mean, it's just wire?
(Just the part in between)
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Have you ever tried lengthening your LAN cable, or even just having a 10km LAN cable? You have the following side-effects with lengthening any sort of data cable: Attenuation, cross-talk, eaves dropping and EMI. So no, it will not work. If you are able to reconnect it properly I can guarantee a degraded signal, possibly worse. Sure, you can lengthen it, but no guarantees at all. I wouldn't cut up a R300 cable anyways.
 
froot said:
I wouldn't cut up a R300 cable anyways.
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but youre a frootcake. it would work - a house isn't 1km long you know... eavesdropping? you think someone is gonna put a vampire tap on your cable?
 
Keeper said:
but youre a frootcake. it would work - a house isn't 1km long you know... eavesdropping? you think someone is gonna put a vampire tap on your cable?
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Sigh. HDMI cables are only 30cm(or somewhere around there) for a reason. even over that distance some cables have problems.

Good luck though.

If you manage to do patent it. People from all over the world will want in.
 
i have a 3 Meter dvi-hdmi cable and it has 0 interference. i don't think 15 meters could interfere that much, room to room.

EDIT: LOL @ 30cm Cables! whahahahahah!
 
Great that HD is finally here, but this really worries me:

The HD PVR also uses a content protection scheme to prevent people from copying broadcast content and uploading it to online file-sharing networks.
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Is this why they have only brought out this technology on the PVR, and will non-recordable units be watch-at-broadcast time only?

Does this mean that I will only be able to record HD content to the PVR, and not transfer it to my Blu-ray disk, PC or any other device in the house if I want to watch it tomorrow, or next week or just keep it for posterity?

If that is the case, well, then, they can place all this gently somewhere in their nether regions and I will wait until better kit is available to get around it.
 
IdlePhaedrus said:
Is this why they have only brought out this technology on the PVR, and will non-recordable units be watch-at-broadcast time only?

Does this mean that I will only be able to record HD content to the PVR, and not transfer it to my Blu-ray disk, PC or any other device in the house if I want to watch it tomorrow, or next week or just keep it for posterity?
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Yes. That is the requirement from the owners of the content. well until someone can hack the HDCP of the decoder anyway...
 
Apologies for ignorance...

arf9999 said:
Yes. That is the requirement from the owners of the content. well until someone can hack the HDCP of the decoder anyway...
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This HDCP thing, one assumes this is a firm or hard ware chip in the decoder which encodes and decodes the content of the broadcast for recording and playback on the specific device. Is this correct?

Is this HDCP thing local to DSTV, or is it used globally for all HD broadcasts and devices?
 
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