{"id":20997,"date":"2012-08-30T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=20997"},"modified":"2012-08-30T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:35:44","slug":"dstv-boosts-hd-channel-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/20997\/dstv-boosts-hd-channel-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"DStv boosts HD channel offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DStv\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2239-DStv\">DStv<\/a> Premium subscribers can look forward to new channels from 1 October 2012, the satellite TV broadcaster announced on its website today (29 August 2012).<\/p>\n<p>These include four new M-Net Movies channels and two Africa Magic standard definition (SD) channels. Six of the M-Net Movies channels will be simulcast in HD, while Studio Universal and the Universal channel will be added to the HD bouquet.<\/p>\n<p>Movie Magic 1 (MM1) and MM2 are changing into themed channels, DStv said, with MM1 becoming M-Net Movies Premier and MM2 changing to M-Net Movies Drama &amp; Romance.<\/p>\n<p>The other themed movie channels that will be simulcast in HD on channels 103\u2013108 are: comedy, family, Action+, and Showcase. M-Net Action and M-Net Stars will only be broadcast in SD.<\/p>\n<p id=\"channelshuffling\"><strong>Every day I\u2019m shufflin\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The addition, and re-organisation of DStv channels is due to the pay TV operator\u2019s migration from the IS\u20137 and IS\u201310 satellites it previously used, to the new IS\u201320 satellite that was recently launched.<\/p>\n<p>DStv said that in order to make space for the new channels and to group relevant channels together, some channel numbers will change on 1 October 2012:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Channel 101\u2013143: General entertainment channels with international content<\/li>\n<li>Channel 144\u2013169: General entertainment channels with local content<\/li>\n<li>Channel 170\u2013190: Documentaries and lifestyle channels<\/li>\n<li>Channel 191\u2013195: Free-to-air channels such as SABC and E-TV<\/li>\n<li>Channel 200 onwards: SuperSport in HD and SD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The changes will happen automatically in the early morning hours of Monday, 1 October, DStv said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDStv customers are advised to access the information about their specific decoder on DStv.com or press OK on their DStv remote to see if any action is required on their part,\u201d the broadcaster\u2019s website states.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who live in a complex or flat where they don\u2019t have their own dish, will have to request their body corporate to verify if their system is capable of receiving new services before 1 October 2012.<\/p>\n<p id=\"related\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DStv gets new satellite, more services promised\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/56557-dstv-gets-new-satellite-more-services-promised.html\"><strong>DStv gets new satellite, more services promised<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New DStv HD Olympics channels detailed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/54829-new-dstv-hd-olympics-channels-detailed.html\"><strong>New DStv HD Olympics channels detailed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uncapped, unshaped ADSL with Internet TV\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/58203-uncapped-unshaped-adsl-with-internet-tv.html\"><strong>Uncapped, unshaped ADSL with Internet TV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"TopTV prepaid vouchers launched\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/57475-toptv-prepaid-tv-launched.html\"><strong>TopTV prepaid vouchers launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DStv subscriber numbers: Select, Compact growth beat Premium\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/53637-dstv-subscriber-numbers-select-compact-growth-beat-premium.html\"><strong>DStv subscriber numbers: Select, Compact growth beat Premium<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DStv has announced that Premium subscribers can look forward to new channels from 1 October 2012, including new high-definition channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,78,3976,3977,3978,3979,3980],"class_list":["post-20997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-hd-pvr","tag-intelsat-20","tag-is-20","tag-m-net-movies","tag-universal-channel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21000,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997\/revisions\/21000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}