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High Definition Television (HDTV). Generally refers to tv with at least twice the vertical and horizontal picture resolution of current digital and analogue tv system. This makes the picture at least four times as detailed and in 16:9 formats.
Note the HD TV and DTV are not the same thing HdTV are one format of DTV
Record 150hours of standard tv or 50 hours of HD tv.
View 1 record 1 simultaneously
Pause live tv programming for up to 2 hours
Rewind live tv programs
Fast forward
View in slow motion
Extra view capability. |
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DSTV on Demand |
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DStv on Demand is DStv video on demand service available to DStv premium customers with a PVR subscription. This service offers approximately 20 additional hours of premium content each month for free. Series and sporting events are all sent to your PVR to be accessed and viewed at a time convenient to you, at no additional cost. |
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Box Office |
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Box Office brought to you by DStv in video on demand service and allows you to rent and view the latest block busters(not yet broadcast on DStv from the comfort of your homer.
Box Office is available on the PVR to DStv Premium subscribers in South Africa and Lesotho with an active PVR subscription |
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Extra View |
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Extra view is a cost effective and flexible solution allowing you to link two extra view capable decoders at a cost of a single subscription, plus an access fee each month.
Extra view allows you to increase the number of tv channels which can be viewed simultaneously in your home without paying an additional subscription. |
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Why Extra View not Dual View? |
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Building Dual view in one decoder requires complex software that proved expensive and very time consuming when trying to add even the simplest new functionality.
People with one tv are not forced to pay for functions they cannot or do not want to.
You can add viewing environments when you need them.
With extra view you can also have full functionality at a second viewing point ,Dual view did not allow for tv guide,interactive services,subtitles on tv 2. |
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How does Extra View work? |
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Decoders are linked together by way of a '"heartbeat", the heartbeat is sent from primary decoder to the secondary decoder every 30seconds.
The primary decoder will communicate with no other decoder and the secondary will listen to no other decoder.
If the secondary decoder loses the heartbeat for more than 30minutes it will stops working.
The heartbeat is sent from and received by RF ports via a normal coax cable.
With this reason , Extra view decoders have special RF ports and not all decoders can be used in extra view network.
The RF cable carrying the heartbeat can also be used to carry video and audio as well as relay commands. |
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Extra View decoder combos |
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1110 +1110
1110 +1131
1110 +HD PVR
1131 +1131
1131 +HD PVR
SD PVR+ HD PVR
The SD PVR does not have the hardware capability to generate heartbeat or relay remote commands but it can receive it.so it can only be used as secondary. |
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