{"id":159061,"date":"2016-03-24T07:56:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=159061"},"modified":"2016-03-24T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T06:27:15","slug":"why-multichoice-is-not-planning-full-hd-broadcasts-for-dstv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/159061-why-multichoice-is-not-planning-full-hd-broadcasts-for-dstv.html","title":{"rendered":"Why MultiChoice is not planning full HD broadcasts for DStv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice said it has no immediate plans to broadcast in 1080p, also known as full HD, because of a lack of support from decoders.<\/p>\n<p>Online streaming services like Netflix offer video streaming in 1080p and 4K, but broadcasters typically only go up to 720p (HD).<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice said not all decoders are capable of 1080p, and therefore broadcasting in 1080p would require it\u00a0to duplicate content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also see very little demand from mainstream customers currently [for 1080p],\u201d said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice previously stated that full HD broadcasts also require changes to broadcast infrastructure and utilise more bandwidth than the current 1080i and 720p resolutions.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/159019-free-dstv-premium-channels-for-easter-kick-in-today.html\"><strong>Free DStv Premium channels for Easter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/157469-want-to-skip-the-dstv-price-hike-this-is-how.html\"><strong>Want to skip the DStv price hike? This is how<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/157481-dstv-cuts-explora-decoder-prices.html\"><strong>DStv cuts Explora decoder prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice said it has no immediate plans to broadcast in 1080p \u2013 here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":135474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[16332,85,2488,35,475],"class_list":["post-159061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-1080p","tag-dstv","tag-full-hd","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159061"}],"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=159061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159117,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159061\/revisions\/159117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}