{"id":18303,"date":"2011-02-07T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-07T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:29:00","slug":"cheaper-dstv-hd-pvr-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/18303-cheaper-dstv-hd-pvr-popular.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper DStv HD PVR popular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/216214-MultiChoice\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MultiChoice\">MultiChoice<\/a> launched the first HD PVR (which stands for high definition personal video recorder) DStv decoder in August 2008 at a retail price of around R3,000.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of May 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/12673-MultiChoice-launches-cheaper-PVR-decoder.html\" target=\"_blank\">MultiChoice announced a cheaper HD PVR model<\/a>, the HD PVR 2P. While the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/12915-New-cheaper-PVR-How-does-compare.html\" target=\"_blank\">HD PVR 2P may have a reduced feature set<\/a>, it launched at a retail price of around R2,000.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Since its launch in June 2010, the HD PVR 2P has had a very positive reception from customers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In recent months many retailers like Makro and Pick and Pay have decreased the price of the newly launched HD PVR, retailing it for around R1,800.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that these lower prices would have boosted sales, but MultiChoice would not disclose exact figures.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Unfortunately, we are unable to provide this information as we can only communicate figures as published in the annual financial results of Naspers,&rdquo; MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As at end March 2010 the number of subscribers with PVRs stood at 364 000.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/309809-Cheaper-DStv-HD-PVR-proves-popular\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Cheaper DStv HD PVR popular\">Cheaper DStv HD PVR popular<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice reports positive reception of their cheaper HD PVR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303"}],"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=18303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}