DStv Internet services for Explora revealed

definitely becomes tempting to get the explora now. Very useful features introduced. In fact I could never see the reason why one would need the Explora until now.
 
The News24 article about this feature, feature words such as "dramatic move", "biggest evolutionary development leap" and the line "With the broadband connection it enables, MultiChoice will be launching a mind-boggling and dazzling array of new, internet enabled and interconnected subscriber services".
http://www.channel24.co.za/TV/News/DStv-connects-decoder-to-the-internet-20141113

Jesus, exaggerate much?
 
And just before Christmas. So now we will be seeing all the ads soon.

I must say I am looking forward to this but I really don't feel like running another Ethernet cable to my router.
I'm thinking Takealot + ebucks for the wifi thingy.
 
Sounds like a step forward, but sadly still feels like ancient technology. The past two years I have been 100% reliant on streaming everything and I have no doubt that is the future. I think Multichoice knows this and are taking baby steps in that direction.
 
lcbxx said:
The News24 article about this feature, feature words such as "dramatic move", "biggest evolutionary development leap" and the line "With the broadband connection it enables, MultiChoice will be launching a mind-boggling and dazzling array of new, internet enabled and interconnected subscriber services".
http://www.channel24.co.za/TV/News/DStv-connects-decoder-to-the-internet-20141113

Jesus, exaggerate much?
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Well isn't News24 also Naspers owned? So it wouldn't be surprising if they use their own media to overhype their own products, there is inherit biasedness in almost every media outlet, go have a look at the whole e-tv debacle also....even big news corps like CNN etc are guilty of this for example mainly pushing their own countries propaganda.They all do it,just very subtly.

I have yet to see a truly neutral media outlet.


feo said:
This a fail.
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Yeah sounds like they are making excuses,many people in this country now have internet connections that can instantly stream HD,probably their own servers cant handle the streaming yet.
 
falcon786 said:
Yeah sounds like they are making excuses,many people in this country now have internet connections that can instantly stream HD,probably their own servers cant handle the streaming yet.
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They killed the ethernet ports on their other products too but now they bring it back to life on their flagship HD Explora decoder only to offer downloads in SD, what a crock of crap.

If it were an internet-based extension of normal Catch Up i.e. HD titles available for download, then it would've been a lot better.

Honestly, who is gonna settle for SD Catch Up Plus if you use HD Catch Up, makes no sense.

And if bandwidth is an issue, they need to suck it up and buy a bigger upstream pipe.
 
feo said:
They killed the ethernet ports on their other products too but now they bring it back to life on their flagship HD Explora decoder only to offer downloads in SD, what a crock of crap.

If it were an internet-based extension of normal Catch Up i.e. HD titles available for download, then it would've been a lot better.

Honestly, who is gonna settle for SD Catch Up Plus if you use HD Catch Up, makes no sense.

And if bandwidth is an issue, they need to suck it up and buy a bigger upstream pipe.
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Who said anything about SD?
 
Just received my wifi device used Discovery miles to pay for it. I will be setting it up tonight cant wait to see whats on offer. On the SD content I am not too bummed as I have a 60gb capped account for now so I am happy with this.
 
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