DStv HD improvement

rpm said:
DStv HD change

MultiChoice will be changing the transmission of our HD channels and services on 30 June 2013
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Note that your viewing environment has to be set to "all channels" to access channel 425. Press the TV button to check your viewing environment. I had mine set to "my channels" initially, and kept getting an error message.
 
sybawoods said:
Note that your viewing environment has to be set to "all channels" to access channel 425. Press the TV button to check your viewing environment. I had mine set to "my channels" initially, and kept getting an error message.
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^^ What he said!

I knew my setup had to be OK but when I tried I got an error message saying i dont have the channel. Even after rescanning. Thought it was a Multichoice screw up. Til I saw sybawoods post. Think the DSTV callcentre and installers are going to be very very busy with false alarms because nowhere do they specify to change to "All channels". Hell, i didnt even know it existed til now!
 
sybawoods said:
Note that your viewing environment has to be set to "all channels" to access channel 425. Press the TV button to check your viewing environment. I had mine set to "my channels" initially, and kept getting an error message.
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Thank you very much.

Your advice got me sorted

Thanks. :)
 
Don't have HD but get "Searching for signal" instead of the usual error. Is that bad?
 
Like I posted on the Dstv forum, I wonder how many people have now paid for an installer to come out, when a) MC sent the email and the channel didn't even exist, and b) they didn't give complete instructions on how to view the channel.

I personally think these are really good grounds to claim the cost of the installer back from MC.
 
Yeah - the point here is that ONLY the HD signals will be DVB-S2 as none of the SD boxes can handle S2 compression.

No ways Mono-choice will swop out SD boxes. So they not gaining much more bandwidth by this - wonder what percentage it is per HD channel.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Like I posted on the Dstv forum, I wonder how many people have now paid for an installer to come out, when a) MC sent the email and the channel didn't even exist, and b) they didn't give complete instructions on how to view the channel.

I personally think these are really good grounds to claim the cost of the installer back from MC.
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Yeah I must agree. I punched in 425 and got an error. Then pressed the channel grid that brings up all the channels not just favs and couldn't find the channel. It was only when I read in the media forum that you go to TV Guide>All Channels that I found it. Lots of people would have panicked and called an installer thinking they'd lose all HD capability.
 
R13... said:
Yeah I must agree. I punched in 425 and got an error. Then pressed the channel grid that brings up all the channels not just favs and couldn't find the channel. It was only when I read in the media forum that you go to TV Guide>All Channels that I found it. Lots of people would have panicked and called an installer thinking they'd lose all HD capability.
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Same here!
 
avr-rulez said:
Yeah - the point here is that ONLY the HD signals will be DVB-S2 as none of the SD boxes can handle S2 compression.

No ways Mono-choice will swop out SD boxes. So they not gaining much more bandwidth by this - wonder what percentage it is per HD channel.
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They are gaining quite a bit of bandwidth actually... 30% performance gain from QPSK to 8PSK and 5 of the 19 transponders will now be DVB-S2. Obviously they have been using MPEG4 for HD since 2008, so no gain there.
 
I was also getting an error on 425, but after a reboot (menu,1,1,i for more info, 6 for DSD Reboot) I can see the pic of the hummingbird. So try a reboot befor changing any other settings.
 
“If you see an error message on this channel – Signal not found or Connection to the DStv signal is lost – this means that your installation is not ready for the switch over. When we do the switch over on 30 June 2013, you will lose your HD services,” MultiChoice explained.
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Then what should I do a**hole :mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
I bet you they will not stop charging you even though your decoder is not up to scratch. Not unless you tell them to. People should keep their fingers on the number for calling up the Credit Protection Act people so long.

Hummm...
 
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