DStv
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Digital Satellite Television (also known as DStv) is MultiChoice's multi-channel digital satellite TV service in Africa, launched in 1995. In South Africa and neighbouring countries, it broadcasts on Ku band, which only requires a small satellite dish, while several other countries in the rest of Africa receive broadcasts via both Ku band and C-Band which requires a larger 1.2m dish. Subscribers in South Africa also receive the South African Broadcasting Corporation's three terrestrial channels, SABC1, 2 and 3, the privately owned terrestrial channel e.tv is also available to subscribers in South Africa. These are not available to subscribers elsewhere, for rights reasons, although they receive the SABC Africa channel.
Other countries are also able to receive their terrestrial channels, including TV Uganda and TV Mozambique. In each case for rights reasons these terrestrial channels are not available to subscribers outside the 'home' countries.
DStv has numerous products and services, most recently having introduced its own Personal Video Recorder (PVR) which allows the subscriber to record DStv's content. This functionality is similar to that found on set-top Digital Video Recorder units in other countries, such as TiVo.
DStv also has separate 'bouquets' of channels in Portuguese, German, and Indian languages.
DStv is a highly successful private broadcasting network. Although it offers many channels, its success is still mainly due to its singularity in the entertainment world of Southern Africa. Its Sports channels have been well received, yet its movie magic channels have been heavily criticized, due to its lack of quality A Grade Hollywood movies. It prefers to maximize profits by displaying mainly B grade, less successful, less expensive movies. There has been a cry-out for a competitor to DStv in Southern Africa, especially to improve its quality of movies that it shows.
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[edit] Channels
Note: DStv changes their channel structure from time to time.
1 - Electronic Programme Guide
3 - M-Net
4 - M-Net Movies 1
5 - M-Net Movies 2
6 - actionX
8 - Hallmark Channel
9 - TCM
10 - GO
20 - SuperSport Active
21 - SuperSport 1
22 - SuperSport 2
23 - SuperSport 3
24 - SuperSport 4
25 - SuperSport 5
26 - SuperSport 6
27 - SuperSport 7
28 - SuperSport max
33 - ESPN
34 - TellyTrack
35 - kykNET
36 - M-Net Series
37 - Trace
40 - BBC Prime
41 - E!
42 - Zone Reality
45 - Games (Interactive)
46 - SABC 1
47 - SABC 2
48 - SABC 3
49 - e.tv
50 - BBC World
51 - CNN International
52 - Sky News
53 - SABC Africa
54 - CNBC
55 - Summit TV
56 - Bloomberg
57 - Weather (Interactive)
58 - Parliamentary Service
59 - News24
60 - Fin24
61 - EuroNews
65 - Discovery Channel
66 - National Geographic Channel
67 - Animal Planet
68 - History Channel
69 - Crime & Investigation Network
70 - BBC Food
71 - Travel Channel
72 - Fashion TV
75 - AstroScope (Interactive)
77 - TBN
78 - Rhema Network
80 - K-All Day
81 - Boomerang
82 - Cartoon Network
83 - Disney Channel
85 - MTV Middle-East and Africa
86 - Video Hits 1
87 - Channel O
88 - MTV Base
89 - MK89
90 - TV5 Monde
91 - BVN-TV
92 - RTPi
93 - RAI International
94 - IQRAA
95 - CCTV 4
96 - DW
97 - ERT
100 - Learning Channel
102 - Africa Magic
106 - CCTV - 9
107 - ZNBC TV
108 - Russia Today
113 - Homemark
121 - All Africa Poker
123 - WIN123
[edit] Portuguese bouquet
[edit] German bouquet
[edit] Indian bouquet
- Zee TV
- B4U Movies
- Sony Entertainment Television Asia - SET Asia
- NDTV 24x7 (News)
- Sun TV (South Indian)
- KTV (South Indian)
[edit] Free to Air (FTA) Channels
There are several free-to-air channels available on DSTV simply by adding settings onto the decoder. More details can be found at the rites blog[1]
[edit] Sentech Vivid
- SEN1-6, including Mindset Network channel 1 (education) and 2 (health), Jet TV.
- PTV1-6 (some Nagravision-encrypted).
- SABC1/2/3, e.tv (all Nagravision-encrypted).
- LCN, The Hope Channel, Ps91, ITV, DTBC, God Channel, TCT, DayStar (free-to-air, religious).
- Guide (interactive channel, probably won't work).
- There are also some audio channels available (some free-to-air, some encrypted).
[edit] Botswana TV
- BTV (free-to-air, general entertainment channel). There are multiple audio tracks on BTV, which sound like radio stations.
[edit] Fashion TV
- FTV (free-to-air).
[edit] ManaSat
- ManaSat 1 (religious, free-to-air, Portuguese, 2 audio tracks).
- ManaSat 2 (religious, sometimes encrypted, Portuguese, 2 audio tracks).
[edit] Novacom
- Novacom (test card).
- DayStar, LoveWorld, God Channel (religious, free-to-air).
- RTNC (free-to-air).
- APNA (free-to-air).
- BEStv (free-to-air).
- Extreme Sports (free-to-air).
[edit] Other
Islam Channel Settings:
- frequency 12682 H
- Symbol Rate 26657
- FEC 1/2 (C-Band)
