{"id":62676,"date":"2012-10-19T16:20:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T14:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=62676"},"modified":"2012-10-19T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T14:35:27","slug":"dstv-channel-switch-over-ending-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/62676-dstv-channel-switch-over-ending-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv channel switch-over ending soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"DStv\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/383647-DStv\">DStv<\/a> channel migration <a title=\"MultiChoice\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/216214-MultiChoice\">MultiChoice<\/a> announced towards the end of August 2012 is set to be finalised on Monday, 22 October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice recently sent out a letter to accredited DStv installers informing them of the deadline, which appears to have been extended from the originally intended 1 October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>According to MultiChoice, any subscribers in \u201cmulti-unit dwellings\u201d (MUD), such as apartment blocks, that use a single cable system will lose content on one of the satellite transport streams if they haven\u2019t been updated.<\/p>\n<p>The pay-TV operator urged its installers to complete all outstanding single cable systems urgently.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice thanked their MUD Accredited Installers for working so quickly to upgrade and retune the systems of affected subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>In previous communications, MultiChoice also said that it recommends the use of a 5 cable system to avoid this kind of ongoing intervention.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"New DStv channels and channel numbers\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/61086-new-dstv-channels-and-channel-numbers.html\"><strong>New DStv channels and channel numbers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New DStv HD and SD channels announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/58435-new-dstv-hd-and-sd-channels-announced.html\"><strong>New DStv HD and SD channels announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DStv gets new satellite, more services promised\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/56557-dstv-gets-new-satellite-more-services-promised.html\"><strong>DStv gets new satellite, more services promised<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DStv subscriber numbers: Select, Compact growth beat Premium\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/53637-dstv-subscriber-numbers-select-compact-growth-beat-premium.html\"><strong>DStv subscriber numbers: Select, Compact growth beat Premium<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has warned installers that unupdated single cable systems will lose access to content soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":62466,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,14129,475],"class_list":["post-62676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-is-20","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676"}],"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=62676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62678,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676\/revisions\/62678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}