{"id":153752,"date":"2016-02-01T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=153752"},"modified":"2016-02-01T17:27:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:27:28","slug":"openview-hd-user-numbers-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153752-openview-hd-user-numbers-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenView HD user numbers revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenView HD has exceeded the 350,000 activation mark, said the free-to-view satellite TV service\u2019s operator Platco Digital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen an exponential growth over the past year, thanks to a renewed strategy,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after Platco Digital\u2019s update in August 2015 that it had reached the 200,000 activation mark.<\/p>\n<p>Platco, which is a sister company to E-tv, launched OpenView HD in October 2013, offering a satellite TV service for the cost of a decoder, dish, and installation.<\/p>\n<p>OpenView HD charges no subscription fee, and offers content in 720p, where possible, on channels such as eHD, eToonz+, eKasi+ , eMovies+, and Beatlab.tv.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More broadcasting news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153714-m-nets-gotv-coming-to-south-africa-prices-and-channels.html\"><strong>M-Net\u2019s GOtv coming to South Africa: prices and channels<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153632-netflix-war-draws-first-blood-vidi-is-dead.html\"><strong>Netflix War draws first blood: Vidi is dead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153529-how-m-net-was-started-with-r50000.html\"><strong>How M-Net was started with R50,000<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/152433-the-impact-of-netflix-on-multichoice-and-the-south-african-tv-market.html\"><strong>The impact of Netflix on MultiChoice and the South African TV market<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/130378-e-tv-loses-set-top-box-court-battle.html\"><strong>E-tv loses set-top box court battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-tv\u2019s sister company has announced the latest activation numbers for its free-to-view satellite TV service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":136510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,2092,20709,20533],"class_list":["post-153752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-e-tv","tag-openview-hd-ovhd","tag-platco-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153752"}],"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=153752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153754,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153752\/revisions\/153754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}