{"id":93485,"date":"2013-12-11T20:12:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=93485"},"modified":"2014-01-01T09:38:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T07:38:28","slug":"dstv-explora-vs-hd-pvr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/93485-dstv-explora-vs-hd-pvr-2.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv Explora vs HD PVR"},"content":{"rendered":"

MultiChoice is promoting its DStv Explora decoder and new channel offerings to some of its DStv subscribers.<\/p>\n

The company also said that the Trace Sports channel will be available for compact customers from 18 December 2013 to 18 January 2014.<\/p>\n

DStv Explora vs HD PVR<\/h3>\n

MultiChoice is also punting the benefits of its new Explora decoder over its 2 tuner HD PVRs. The following table provides a comparison of the two devices.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
DStv Explora<\/strong><\/td>\nDStv 2 tuner HD PVR<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Up to 220 hours of personal recordings<\/td>\n50 hours of HD recordings, 150 hours of SD recordings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
View 1, Record 1<\/td>\nView 1, Record 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40 series recordings<\/td>\n20 series recordings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20 BoxOffice titles<\/td>\n15 BoxOffice titles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Series, sports highlights, movies, kids’ shows and documentaries on DStv Catch Up<\/td>\nSeries and sports highlights on DStv Catch Up<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dedicated downloading of BoxOffice and DStv Catch Up titles (these are not interrupted by your recordings)<\/td>\nBoxOffice and DStv Catch Up titles only download when you don’t have any other recordings taking place<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Multiple searches – including ability to find out when any programme is on again in the next 8 days<\/td>\nBasic title and theme search<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pause Live TV for up to 2 hours (even when you change channels)<\/td>\nPause Live TV for up to 2 hours (until you change channels)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

More on the DStv Explora<\/h3>\n

New DStv Explora features added<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DStv Explora HD PVR decoder launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DStv Explora vs HD PVR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MultiChoice is promoting the benefits of its DStv Explora decoder and new channels over the festive season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":91207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,21107,2854,35,475],"class_list":["post-93485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-explora","tag-dstv-hd-pvr","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93485"}],"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=93485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}