{"id":136498,"date":"2015-08-26T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T08:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=136498"},"modified":"2015-08-26T10:59:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T08:59:49","slug":"openview-hd-reaches-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/136498-openview-hd-reaches-milestone.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenView HD reaches milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platco Digital announced that OpenView HD has reached 200,000 installations and activations since it <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/89079-openview-hd-launched-and-tested.html\">launched in October 2013<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>OpenView HD provides subscribers with free access to its content. All that is needed is the purchase and installation of an OpenView HD decoder and dish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/106695-openview-hd-sales-slow.html\"><strong>In July 2014, Ellies<\/strong><\/a>, which won the rights to supply decoders for OpenView HD, reported a big drop in earnings citing poor uptake of the free-to-air satellite service. However, things seem to have turned around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel24.co.za\/TV\/News\/OpenView-HD-reaches-200-000-customers-20150825\"><strong>According to Channel24<\/strong><\/a>, OpenView HD has already sold 100,000 decoders in this financial year \u2013 closing in on its annual target of 170,000 units.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The growth of OpenView HD is better than expected,&#8221; said Platco Digital MD Maxwell Nonge.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on OpenView HD<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/87103-free-openview-hd-channel-list-for-sa-revealed.html\">OpenView HD channel list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/89079-openview-hd-launched-and-tested.html\">OpenView HD launched and tested<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/88763-openview-hd-goes-on-sale.html\">OpenView HD goes on sale<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platco Digital announced it has reached a significant subscriber milestone, with strong growth expected to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":82799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,20837,20531,20583],"class_list":["post-136498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-maxwell-nonge","tag-openview-hd","tag-platco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136504,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136498\/revisions\/136504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}