DStv ‘Open Time’ returns this November as MultiChoice slashes decoder prices 

If you needed a little reminder this morning that the speeding rush of death is coming for us all a little sooner than we’d like, remember that DStv is officially thirty years old. And, like any thirty-year-old coming to terms with that fact, MultiChoice is feeling generous enough to revive ‘Open Time’ — which offers free DStv Premium to any decoder subscriber, on top of refreshing the company’s decoder prices for good.

This is the new DStv

There’s always a catch, of course. Here, it’s worth noting that Open Time will only run for a single weekend and is only available to active DStv decoder subscribers who don’t already pay a monthly amount for Premium. Sorry, streamers. The promotion kicks off at 12h01 on Friday, 7 November and runs ’til 11h59 on Sunday, 9 November.

It’s a good weekend for it, after all. Manchester City is set to take on Liverpool in the Premier League, the Springboks will battle it out with France, while the Brazilian Grand Prix zips by. And Carte Blanche. That’s on top of regular reruns of the same episodes of The Big Bang Theory you’ve likely seen hundreds of times.

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More exciting than a weekend of free DStv Premium is the broadcaster slashing decoder prices for good. And, if you’re already a Premium subscriber, you haven’t been forgotten. MultiChoice will gift these customers two additional all-device streams from November to the end of December, bringing the total up to four per customer.

“From the start of November, we will be reducing our HD Decoder pricing by 30% in retail channels and over 40% through our newly launched DStv store to make joining and reconnecting with DStv easier and more affordable than ever,” said Byron du Plessis, CEO: SA PayTV at MultiChoice.

From 1 November 2025, newbies to the decoder ecosystem can buy a standalone HD decoder for R300 (or R700 with installation). That’s only if you’re visiting MultiChoice’s refreshed online store. Customers going the retail route can expect to pay R400 for the same decoder (or R900 with installation).