MultiChoice adds more HD channels

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MultiChoice adds more HD channels --

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:04

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MultiChoice is on a drive to offer their customers an ever-evolving and enhanced DStv experience. At a media briefing, held on 27 September at their Randburg offices, CEO Mark Rayner said, We re making additional channels available in HD, streamlining packages to deliver more fresh entertainment daily and extending our Catch Up Plus catalogue to over 1 000 movies. We re actively managing the DStv service to ensure our customers get the most value for money.

Satellite launch

On 24 August, MultiChoice launched a new satellite, IS36, which will provide additional capacity. This means MultiChoice can start offering additional services. The new satellite will also act as a back-up to the existing IS20 satellite.

DStv channel changes

During the month of October and November, certain DStv packages will undergo changes and customers will get more channels in crystal clear HD. It s all part of a process aimed at refining channel offerings based on customer feedback and viewing behaviour.

Nine DStv channels will change to HD

These will include some of the best loved M-Net channels such as M-Net Movies All Stars, M-Net Family, VUZU Mzansi Wethu and kykNET & Kie as well as certain international favourites such as BBC First, HISTORY, Crime & Investigation and Food Network.

More channels will be added to other DStv packages

Extra customers will get ITV Choice HD and Lifetime, Family customers will pick up M-Net Movies Stars HD, while EasyView customers will receive Jim Jam and Mzansi Music.

Extra customers will also be able to enjoy the specialist language channels: RAI, BVN, RTPI, TV5 Monde and Deutsche Welle

The following channels will stop airing from end of October: CBS Action and Drama, AMC and True Movies.

General manager for Content, Aletta Alberts, explained the rationale behind these changes: Our focus is to bring our customers the best entertainment possible. We do research every month to understand what they re watching and what they d like to watch. This research helped us identify some channels that weren t popular or that had the same content as other existing channels.

We also use this research to understand what we can do to improve the channels we have. This year alone, we ve enhanced the offering on a number of channels - M-Net Movie Channels, M-Net City and M-Net Family, ITV Choice, FOX Entertainment, VIA, Discovery Family and Discovery IDx to name but a few. This means our customers will be seeing fresher content on a more regular basis.

New DStv Explora launched

In order to be able to give more customers the Explora experience without having to worry about expensive data costs, MultiChoice has created a decoder with the same features and services as the current Explora, with a streamlined hard drive to keep it affordable.

Nyiko Shiburi, group general manager for Broadcast Technology, said Our new Explora uses the latest video compression technology, which means our customers will in future spend less on data when they connect their new Explora to the internet.

The new Explora has the same extensive Catch Up service, the ability to rent up to 30 BoxOffice movies and internet connectivity for Catch Up Plus, Remote Recording and ShowMax. This extensive content catalogue means customers are recording less on their Exploras, which is why the hard drive has been made smaller to keep the decoder affordable. Customers can record up to 80 hours of HD content on their personal playlist (current Explora has 150 hours of HD recordings).

We believe the sheer volume of content available on our Catch Up, Catch Up Plus and ShowMax services, offers our customers an unparalleled entertainment experience. And the streamlined version means we can continue to offer all our customers the chance to own an Explora at an affordable price, despite our weakened Rand, continued Nyiko.

The new Explora gets a new A7 remote control, which incorporates features that customers have asked for. These include backlit buttons, which enables users to see it in the dark, the ability to easily programme it as a universal remote for your TV and music system, and a ShowMax button for one-touch access.

Nyiko confirmed, The Explora is our flagship decoder and we ll continue to enhance it with further developments for many years to come.

The new DStv Explora will retail at R1 499 and this price will be fixed until the end of 2017.

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