Gerhard Potgieter

Multichoice released details about their HDTV and HDTV Decoder price and launch date.

Thursday Multichoice anounced the launch of its High Definition Personal Video Recorder decoder (HD PVR).

Customers whom would like to view HD channels will need a HD PVR decoder aswell as a HD Ready television set. The HD PVR decoder will be available in major retail stores from August 2008 and will launch at a price of R2 499.00 (for a limited time period).

The HD PVR will initially be made available with pre-launch software which does not include all the features for a full suite of interactive applications.  These will be made available as soon as MNet HD channel is launched at the end of August.

Customers won’t need to worry about obtaining this new software as it will be made available via Satalite transmition just like all the other decoder models get their software upgrades.

HD PVR owners will soon be able to link their HD PVR to their current Dual View PVR to enjoy viewing 3 channels at the same time, or to a 1110 decoder to enjoy viewing 2 channels at a sime time for a extra R55pm.

The first HD broacast on the DStv network will be the Beijing Olympic Games from 8 August to 24 August on channel 170.

From 24 August DStv will have a dedicated HD channel offering a mix of series,  movies, sporting action and once-off specials. This channel will be called MNet HD and will offer some of the content in surround sound aswell.

I’m an active MyBroadband member and a few times have seen a thread called “I am the Thread Killer” in the off-topic section, what drew my attention everytime was the size of the thread.

I hardly ever post in the thread but just now I had a look inside and again the post count got my attention and I started wondering what the largest thread is in the world. Im sure “I am the Thread Killer” could surely be there with the top of them, if not the number one thread.

I did some research on google and couldn’t realy find any other thread that mached “I am the Thread Killer“. Currently it consists of 165 702 replies, 11047 pages, and a enourmous 2 881 061 views to date. The thread was started on 10-03-2005 so it quite old, yet still it is a very active thread.

A while back I read the the owner of MyBroadband wanted to close down the thread cause it seriously cripled the server where the site is hosted but the formnites didn’t like the idea very much, so they upgraded the server quite a bit.