{"id":82563,"date":"2013-07-22T23:14:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=82563"},"modified":"2013-07-23T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T06:27:13","slug":"new-dstv-explora-decoder-launching-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82563-new-dstv-explora-decoder-launching-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"New DStv “Explora” decoder launching soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Internet-connected DStv<\/a> decoder called the \u201cExplora\u201d is expected to become available in August 2013, an industry source with knowledge of the launch has told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice<\/a> recently sent out a \u201csave the date\u201d notification to media and other guests for a product launch happening on 31 July 2013, and this event may well be for the new “Explora” decoder.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster\u2019s plans for a new decoder emerged towards the end of last year (2012) when head of content at MultiChoice, Aletta Alberts<\/a>, told media that they expect to launch an Internet-connected decoder during Q1 2013.<\/p>\n

Alberts said at the time that this new decoder will increase capacity for DStv\u2019s \u201cCatch Up\u201d content from 20 hours to 175 hours.<\/p>\n

Additionally, \u201cif you have a fantastic Internet connection then you could have access to other content,\u201d Alberts said.<\/p>\n

Industry sources have revealed that the Internet capabilities of the new decoder will not be available at launch, but that a 2 Terabyte hard drive will increase capacity for BoxOffice and Catch Up content.<\/p>\n

Responding to our queries about the new DStv Explora decoder, MultiChoice said that they can’t comment at this stage.<\/p>\n

Asked whether their promotional HD PVR and Walka combo deal is intended to clear stock ahead of the launch of a new decoder, MultiChoice said that the special is part of their normal winter promotion.<\/p>\n

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MultiChoice is expected to soon take the wraps off of its new DStv decoder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":72532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2544,85,20539,35,475],"class_list":["post-82563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-aletta-alberts","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-explora-decoder","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82563"}],"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=82563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82733,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82563\/revisions\/82733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}