{"id":8709,"date":"2009-07-08T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-08T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T13:43:00","slug":"three-new-hd-dstv-channels-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/8709-three-new-hd-dstv-channels-planned.html","title":{"rendered":"Three new HD DSTV channels planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice launched its highly anticipated high definition PVR (HD PVR) in August 2008 &ndash; in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.&nbsp; The decoder was introduced at a price of R2499 and promised increased functionality over its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice launched a single HD channel &#8211; M-Net HD &ndash; and said at the time that it was planning a few additional channels in future.&nbsp; The new HD PVR was unfortunately dogged by software problems, with many users opting to rather use their old SD PVR.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice fixed most of the bugs associated with its HD PVR, but so far HD PVR users still only have a single HD channel to justify their purchase.&nbsp; This is however set to change in the next year.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice confirmed that they will launch three additional HD channels before March 2010.&nbsp; Marilyn Watson, MultiChoice&rsquo;s External Communications Manager said that the three HD channels will include sport, documentary and film.&nbsp; Watson highlighted that at this stage customers will not be charged for the additional channels.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband recently reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Telecoms\/7868.html\">MultiChoice is planning a new HD PVR<\/a>, and the company has confirmed that the aim of the new HD PVR is to reduce the cost of the device.&nbsp; Watson said that the exact date and the actual retail price is still to be confirmed, but it is speculated that the device will cost in the region of R 2 000.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=180797\">New DSTV HD channels<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice is planning more high definition channels and a more affordable HD PVR<\/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-8709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709"}],"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=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}