For reference, the last Openview HD decoder was 27.4cm wide, 23.9cm long, and 5.5cm tall. DStv’s top-of-the-line Explora Ultra decoder is a fat brick in comparison — being 37cm wide, 21cm long ...

Occasionally OpenView HD decoders are phased out. This is despite the promise that you only need to buy the decoder once and use it forever. Even Multichoice occasionally phases out decoders.

OpenView HD is new subscription-free satellite TV service from Platco Digital, a sister company to E-tv, which is set to launch in South Africa during October 2013.

Maxwell Nonge, the managing director of Patco Digital says OpenView HD and the free TV channels the platform will launch will "addresses the affordability of quality content". OpenView HD equipment in ...

Just as is the case with DStv South Africa, the process of activating an OpenView HD decoder is fairly simple. The decoder (which works with any standard satellite connection) ...

OpenView HD is still cagey about its channel line-up, ... Platco can carry up to 100 standard definition channels and 30–40 HD channels on OpenView HD, he said. PVR and decoder pricing.

Following an investment of "tens of millions" of rands, local free-to-air broadcaster OpenView HD says it has opened the door to potentially growing its viewership numbers exponentially, as it now ...

OpenView HD will reach its 200 000th installation and activation within days since the free-to-air satellite TV service launched in South Africa in October 2013. ... as MultiChoice's DStv which means ...

While the service will be free, customers will have to purchase a dish and decoder - and pay for installation of OpenView HD. "An 85cm dish is recommended as the minimum size.

OpenView HD, South Africa’s first free-to-view direct-to-home satellite television platform, will soon also be available on the same satellite dish used to receive DStv, Vivid and Freevision services.

Television broadcasters are tight-lipped about divulging how many viewers they have – especially in the case of satellite-based free-to-air television services, like OpenView HD. Launched two ...

OpenView HD will launch a new sports lifestyle channel. TRACE Sport Stars channel 154 will go live on June 3rd. “TRACE Sport Stars will take a unique view on sport stars, giving our viewers access to ...