MultiChoice is ''back'' for Christmas with the special retail price of R1 499 for the HD PVR 2P decoder - a lower-price first introduced earlier this year.
The HD PVR 2P retails at a lower price than the R1 999 launch price of this new DStv decoder model when it first came on the market in May 2010.
MultiChoice actually subsidises all of its decoders to help with product and service uptake. MultiChoice in Africa earlier this week complained that in other African countries subscriber growth is actually hampered by too high tax and import duty on decoders making them more expensive than what MultiChoice in Africa would like.
Competitor TopTV doesn't plan launching its own PVR model in South Africa until the end of 2012 at the earliest, which leaves South African TV and pay TV viewers will only one PVR option.