{"id":84387,"date":"2013-08-15T08:48:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T06:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=84387"},"modified":"2013-08-15T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T06:57:10","slug":"dstv-explora-hd-pvr-decoder-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/84387-dstv-explora-hd-pvr-decoder-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv Explora HD PVR decoder launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new high definition (HD), personal video recording (PVR) decoder from <a title=\"MultiChoice\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/216214-MultiChoice\">MultiChoice<\/a>, <a title=\"DStv\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/383647-DStv\">DStv<\/a> Explora, launched at South African retail today (15 August 2013), the company has told subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>It has a recommended retail price of R2,499, but stores are able to set their own price. Makro, for example, has the decoder \u201con promotion\u201d for R2,399.<\/p>\n<p>With a price tag of R1,000 more than the 2 Tuner HD PVR already on the market, the Explora promises a number of improvements, a 2 Terabyte hard drive chief among them.<\/p>\n<p>This extra drive space translates to not only more space to store your own recordings, but also for BoxOffice and Catch Up content, MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice also promised that online content would be delivered to the decoder in future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84391\" alt=\"DStv Explora new features PR\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DStv-Explora-new-features-PR.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DStv-Explora-new-features-PR.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DStv-Explora-new-features-PR-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to MultiChoice, subscribers willing to put up the \u00b1R2,500 for the new decoder can expect the following new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 more BoxOffice movies to choose from with cover art in the menu;<\/li>\n<li>At least 3x more Catch Up content with series stacking and movies for the first time;<\/li>\n<li>Up to 220 hours of personal recordings;<\/li>\n<li>Svelte new HD user interface;<\/li>\n<li>40 series recordings;<\/li>\n<li>Subtitles in recordings and in the review buffer;<\/li>\n<li>Review buffer gets retained on channel change and if you go into the interactive applications;<\/li>\n<li>Vastly improved search inclusive of intuitive filters; and<\/li>\n<li>Find repeats on programming for later recording or viewing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More satellite TV news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/83823-free-satellite-tv-licensing-concerns.html\"><strong>Free satellite TV licensing concerns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/83981-poor-dstv-competition-because-of-useless-icasa-report.html\"><strong>Poor DStv competition because of useless ICASA: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/83737-free-satellite-tv-for-sa-channel-genres-pvr-plans.html\"><strong>Free satellite TV for SA: channel genres, PVR plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/83435-dstv-explora-vs-hd-pvr.html\"><strong>DStv Explora vs HD PVR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/81085-dstv-boxoffice-catch-up-coming-to-tablets-smartphones.html\"><strong>DStv BoxOffice, Catch Up coming to tablets, smartphones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice\u2019s new HD PVR decoder, the DStv Explora, launched today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":84389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,475],"class_list":["post-84387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84387"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84447,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84387\/revisions\/84447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}