{"id":7996,"date":"2009-05-11T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-11T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:33:00","slug":"hd-pvr-update-positively-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/7996-hd-pvr-update-positively-received.html","title":{"rendered":"HD PVR update positively received"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Telecoms\/7953.html\">Multichoice&rsquo;s HD PVR update<\/a> last week the reports from users have been generally positive.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just did the upgrade. All I can say is what someone else said in another thread. Feels more responsive and the news and weather is available in the interactive menu,&rdquo; said the forum user Quantum Theory.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Installed on my HD PVR &#8211; must say I am pleased with the EPG response now &#8211; can view programs 8 days in advance as its supposed to have been &#8211; will definitely make more use of the scheduled recordings now,&rdquo; forum user Adsl3g said,<\/p>\n<p>The software update is currently available via a voluntary download and, according to Multichoice, a forced update for all HD PVR users will be instituted towards the end of this week if every goes well.<\/p>\n<p>The update, among other factors, has improved recording reliability, loading times for TV guide data, response times when changing channels and has added interactive News 24 and Weather 24 channels.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the general positive reception, some users have complained that their decoders are rebooting continuously after downloading the update. A Multichoice representative on the DSTv forum has provided a solution involving the removal of all four LNB tuners connected to the device and a specific reboot method.<\/p>\n<p>A full explanation is available on the DSTV website: <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.dstv.com\/showthread.php?t=2415\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forum.dstv.com\/showthread.php?t=2415<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=171430\">HD PVR software update discussion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HD PVR Software update seems to have resolved many problems, but may cause reboot problems<\/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-7996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996"}],"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=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}