{"id":180910,"date":"2016-09-28T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=180910"},"modified":"2016-09-28T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T11:01:54","slug":"dstv-explora-decoder-old-vs-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/180910-dstv-explora-decoder-old-vs-new.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv Explora decoder: old vs new"},"content":{"rendered":"

MultiChoice recently announced that it would be replacing its current DStv Explora decoder<\/strong><\/a> with a new model.<\/p>\n

The new Explora will go on sale from mid-October at a recommended retail price of R1,499.<\/p>\n

Previous models of the Explora will remain available for as long as stock is available, but it will no longer be manufactured.<\/p>\n

DStv\u2019s new Explora decoder is much smaller than the its predecessor, but it also comes with a smaller hard drive. The original Explora had a 2TB drive, while the new one will have a 1TB drive.<\/p>\n

This will not impact the amount of BoxOffice and Catch Up on-demand content available on the decoder, MultiChoice said, thanks to new H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding built into the new Explora.<\/p>\n

While the amount of on-demand video available will remain the same, the amount of user recording space has been halved.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice said that it has found that with more Catch Up content available on the Explora, subscribers tend to record less.<\/p>\n

In addition to the changes in video compression and hard drive size, the new Explora promises to make XtraView installations easier, and comes with a new DStv A7 remote.<\/p>\n

The programmable remote has backlit buttons which are switched on automatically when you pick up the remote, courtesy of a built-in motion sensor.<\/p>\n

The following images and table show how the new Explora compares to the old one.<\/p>\n

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Old DStv Explora vs New DStv Explora<\/h3>\n

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New DStv A7 remote<\/h3>\n

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More DStv news<\/h3>\n

Big DStv channel changes coming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DStv Explora 2 decoder launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DStv price and channel showdown \u2013 Premium vs Extra vs Compact<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DStv Now adds more channels<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DStv\u2019s new satellite will let it launch more services<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is how the new DStv Explora decoder compares against the old one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":180906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,21107,35,475],"class_list":["post-180910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-explora","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180910"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}