M-Net HD on DStv

Weren't they supposed to be launching HD with the Olympics?...


Ooops, helps to read the other article as well .. :)
They will be broadcasting the Olympics to start with... might be reason enough to get decoder...
 
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lerouxc said:
What's the price tag on the new hd decoders?
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R2499 , I ordered mine , it's being installed on 1 Aug , but you have to do a dish upgrade as well which is about 1.5k , so all comes down to R3999 for me . I'm just disappointing that soccer will be HD and not Currie Cup rugby , I would have expected demographic of people owning a HD TV at this moment will lean more towards the rugby viewing public
 
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noemfie said:
R2499 , I ordered mine , it's being installed on 1 Aug , but you have to do a dish upgrade as well which is about 1.5k , so all comes down to R3999 for me . I'm just disappointing that soccer will be HD and not Currie Cup rugby , I would have expected demographic of people owning a HD TV at this moment will lean more towards the rugby viewing public
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Noemfie, where have you ordered your's from, if you don't mind me asking?
 
Why can't DSTV have this info on their damn website...

As for the dish upgrade? R1.5k? why so much?
 
Dish upgrade? wtf... On the news article they said that you only need the HD Decoder to be able to get HD, nowhere did they mention a dish upgrade...darm...

Regarding the monthly subscription, will it still remain the same or are they going to increase that as well?grin...
 
To hell with this. I'll wait for another few years when all their channels are HD and by that time the TV prices would have dropped and better ones would be available.
 
I asked for answers to a few of the Q's from forumites. I think the service is 'free' and I have not heard anything about another dish. I think it is basically a value-add with very little extra needed apart from the new decoder and an HD TV. But lets wait for the official response...
 
Surely you don't need a PVR HD decoder? What if you just want HD?
 
I want to know about this Quad LNB issue..... they need to be forthcoming about ALL the costs involved.
 
noemfie said:
R2499 , I ordered mine , it's being installed on 1 Aug , but you have to do a dish upgrade as well which is about 1.5k , so all comes down to R3999 for me . I'm just disappointing that soccer will be HD and not Currie Cup rugby , I would have expected demographic of people owning a HD TV at this moment will lean more towards the rugby viewing public
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Well, its depends on the recording and broadcasting equipment - maybe there just isn't enough to go around.

Incidently, I was speaking to a video editor friend of mine. He produces programmes in 1920 x 1080 resolution, real real HD, and has to downscale to 720 x 576 for most broadcasters as they have no ability to handle anything higher.
 
I find this story a bit amusing as I have some inside knowledge of this story:

M-Net have one - that's right, just one HD truck, which was delivered earlier this year.

Thanks to Telscum, the OB productions will never be in glorious 1080i due to the fact that there is not enough bandwidth to get a full 1080i television picture back to Randburg, and the fact that using ATM lines to send the picture is prohibitively expensive, so M-Net are uplinking via Satellite, but even this is not going to be 1080i, but rather 720p - a small improvement over PAL's 625 lines. Unless of course M-Net starts to pay for extra satellite bandwidth! At present the truck downconverts to SDI and then send the pics to Randburg, and they will be able to master in 1080i, recording on tape.

On top of this issue, comes the fact that the entire bandwidth of Multichoice's satellite signal is equivalent to an uplink in SDI! So the quality from the Satellite is going to be pretty poor - unless Multichoice fork out the bucks and start charging a whole lot more for subscription....
 
biltonguy said:
Wow the cost of an HD tv + new decoder + monthly subscription is just big money :(
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Since NoChoice will only be doing 720p (1280by720 at 25progressive fps)
I think a cheaper "HD" TV will suffice, one can get a decent 1280by720 set
right now for under R15K at 40+ inches. No need to get those 1920by1080
sets.
 
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