{"id":148323,"date":"2016-01-18T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=148323"},"modified":"2016-01-18T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T08:59:00","slug":"dstv-decoder-comparison-explora-vs-hd-single-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/148323-dstv-decoder-comparison-explora-vs-hd-single-view.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv decoder comparison: Explora vs HD Single View"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multichoice is currently offering two devices to its DStv subscribers: the Explora and the HD Single View decoder.<\/p>\n

The DStv Explora offers subscribers a viewing and recording environment, and includes services like DStv Catch Up, Box Office, and remote recording.<\/p>\n

The HD Single View decoder is aimed at providing an affordable decoder which provides high definition support.<\/p>\n

The table below provides a comparison of the DStv Explora and HD Single View decoders.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Specifications<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nDStv Explora<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nDStv HD Single View<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Viewing<\/strong><\/td>\n1 channel<\/td>\n1 channel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recording<\/strong><\/td>\n1 channel; up to 220 hours<\/td>\nNo recording<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HD capable<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dolby Digital 5.1 capable<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XtraView capable<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pause Live TV<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Interactive applications<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Remote recording <\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv Catch Up<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BoxOffice<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Price without installation<\/strong><\/td>\nR1,999<\/td>\nR499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Price with installation<\/strong><\/td>\nR2,999<\/td>\nR799<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There are two options when you purchase a DStv decoder: the Explora and the HD Single View – here is how they compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":91207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,21107,34321,35],"class_list":["post-148323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-explora","tag-dstv-hd-single-view-decoder","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148323"}],"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=148323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148773,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148323\/revisions\/148773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}