{"id":20304,"date":"2011-05-16T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-16T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:31:00","slug":"dstv-mobile-drifta-to-support-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/20304-dstv-mobile-drifta-to-support-blackberry.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv Mobile Drifta to support BlackBerry"},"content":{"rendered":"

DStv Mobile revealed on its Twitter account and in its forum late in 2010 that it is busy developing a BlackBerry application for their Drifta mobile TV receiver<\/a> and that it should be available before April 2011.<\/p>\n

The April 2011 date was significant to DStv Mobile as it was due to launch its commercial offering<\/a> based on the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld) standard in the first week of April 2011 after a lengthy trial period.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice’s mobile broadcasting service<\/a> offered twelve channels upon its commercial launch and according to its website, has since added the Big Brother Amplified channel.<\/p>\n

To receive the DVB-H signal, DStv Mobile users must either have a DStv Drifta decoder and a supported viewing device (PC, iPhone, iPad), or a device with a built-in DVB-H receiver (e.g. Nokia 5330, Nokia N96, ZTE F900).<\/p>\n

A subscription to the service is included with DStv Premium, but costs R36 per month for everyone else. Owners of the Nokia or ZTE DVB-H handsets have the option to pay a weekly fee of R9 instead of a monthly fee.<\/p>\n

BlackBerry owners who were hoping to make use of the DStv Mobile bouquet on their devices may yet have to wait a while.<\/p>\n

A post in the DStv forums on 14 April 2011 by a MultiChoice employee stated that there have been delays with launching the Blackberry app<\/a> due to testing.<\/p>\n

“We really want to launch it as soon as possible and will let everyone know when we have a confirmed date. Please bear with us,” the post said.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice was contacted for comment but did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

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The Drifta decoder for DStv mobile is set to receive a BlackBerry application, but development has been delayed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-20304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20304"}],"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=20304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}