{"id":7953,"date":"2009-05-07T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-07T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T12:27:00","slug":"new-hd-pvr-update-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/7953-new-hd-pvr-update-released.html","title":{"rendered":"New HD PVR update released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multichoice yesterday released its highly anticipated HD PVR software update for voluntary download.&nbsp; According to the company it has not experienced any problems with the new software to date.<\/p>\n<p>The HD PVR, which launched on the 8th of August 2008 to be ready for the Beijing Olympics, has been dogged with software problems which has left many consumers unhappy with the service.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&rsquo;s software update addressed several problems within the HD PVR software and has, according to Multichoice, managed to stabilize the service.<\/p>\n<p>The improvements include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Fast Forward and Rewind functionality is now a lot smoother on the HD Channel<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Recording reliability has been improved<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * The majority of conditions causing the box to reboot have been resolved<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Channel change speeds have been improved<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Guide data download speeds have been improved<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Disk management has been improved<\/p>\n<p>These factors made up the bulk of complaints directed towards the HD PVR service in the DSTv forums.<\/p>\n<p>Multichoice is currently monitoring the results of the voluntary download and, if everything runs according to plan, will institute a forced download next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=170619\"><strong>HD PVR Software discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice released its highly anticipated HD PVR software update for voluntary download<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}