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During October 2014 DStv Digital Media CEO John Kotsaftis told journalists that the Explora would be fully connected by 20 November.<\/p>\n
Remote recording lets users set their personal video recorder from an app, desktop browser, or mobile websites.<\/p>\n
DStv Catch Up Plus will add another 300 titles to the existing 280, including box sets. Subscribers will have to download these extra titles to their Exploras before they can watch them.<\/p>\n
Up to 25 downloads may be queued at once and the DStv Catch Up Plus service on the Explora also includes queue management features.<\/p>\n
Streaming is not supported to work around South Africa\u2019s \u201cbandwidth challenge\u201d at the moment, Kotsaftis said.<\/p>\n
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Kotsaftis added that they will be pushing out an update to the Explora in future to allow \u201cprogressive downloading\u201d, which will let subscribers watch content while it\u2019s busy downloading.<\/p>\n
Development of the Explora\u2019s online features won\u2019t stop here, though.<\/p>\n
By April 2015 MultiChoice plans to include a function which will allow playback of DStv Catch Up Plus content to begin almost instantly, he said.<\/p>\n
Updates for the DStv Explora software to support the new online features will begin rolling out this week, said CEO of broadcast technology at MultiChoice, Gerdus van Eeden.<\/p>\n
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Multichoice Now mobile app<\/h3>\n
MultiChoice also revealed\u00a0its DStv Now mobile application for Android and iOS devices, which is set to launch before the end of November 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty stable and works pretty well already, but we want to squash a last few bugs,\u201d Kotsaftis said.<\/p>\n
The app offers DStv Premium subscribers with PVR access the ability to watch DStv Catch Up content on their mobile devices, and lets them stream a number of channels live over the Internet.<\/p>\n
All the sports channels, M-Net, and the M-Net movies channels will be available to stream through DStv Now.<\/p>\n
Subscribers to any bouquet with PVR access and\u00a0an\u00a0Explora decoder that is connected to the Internet will also be able to set recordings remotely from the app.<\/p>\n
Asked about the minimum requirements of the app, Kotsaftis said they support down to the oldest iPad 2 and Android devices\u00a0running at least the 4.1 \u201cJelly Bean\u201d version\u00a0of the mobile operating system.<\/p>\n
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