DStv Extra View Installation in Kempton Park
One account, two screens, two channels — bedroom, home office or the room at the back. We supply the LNB, pull the cable and get both decoders registered and running.
What a Second Decoder Buys You
Two Channels at Once
Each linked decoder holds its own channel, so the match and the series stop taking turns on one screen.
No Second Subscription
The extra decoder is attached to the DStv account you already pay for, rather than starting a new one.
A Cable Each
Every decoder is fed on its own line from an LNB with enough outputs. Splitting one cable between two boxes weakens both, and we do not do it.
Garden Flats & Back Rooms
The second screen need not be in the main house at all. A protected run will reach a flatlet, a cottage or a converted back room.
The Visit, Step by Step
Look at what is already up there
First we check the dish is still properly on aim and count the outputs on the LNB. One spare and we are away; none, and the LNB comes off and a bigger one goes on.
Settle the route
Next we agree how the cable reaches the second set — over the ceiling, clipped along an outside wall, or out to another building inside conduit.
Wire it and register it
Each decoder goes onto its own cable, then the pair is registered against your account through MultiChoice's Extra View process.
Prove it on both sets
Before we pack up, both televisions go on at once showing different channels, and the signal quality is read at each point rather than at one and assumed at the other.
Extra View in a Kempton Park Home
More often than not, the second set is going into the main bedroom. After that it is a study, a teenager's room, a converted back room or a flat at the end of the garden — and now and then it is simply a household that has run out of patience with one remote and four opinions. We work the second connection out from how the place is actually lived in, not from where a cable would be easiest to pull.
Everything turns on the LNB, the small unit sitting on the arm in front of the dish. A single-output one has nothing left to give a second decoder, so a twin or a multi-output takes its place. That swap is quick and costs a fraction of a new dish, and with the ladder already against the wall it is the obvious moment to re-read the alignment and reseal the outdoor connectors a wet summer has been working away at.
From there, each decoder wants its own line back to the LNB. Put a splitter between two of them and you halve the margin at both — the symptom is a pair of screens that behave perfectly on a still evening and give up together the moment it rains — so a shared splitter is one of the first things we look for when two screens fail at once. A second line crossing a yard or running along an outside wall goes into conduit and gets clipped down, and anything long enough to lose real signal is calculated before it is ordered, not afterwards.
One thing worth settling first: if the point you already have is freezing, breaking into blocks or throwing codes, fix that before hanging a second decoder off the same system. Our DStv fault-finding service finds the cause first. And once the count goes past two screens — a reception, a waiting room, a guesthouse — you have left Extra View behind and want a business installation instead.
Guide Price
From R1,500
Guide price only. Cable distance, the LNB and the decoder you choose affect the final quote.
Extra View Questions
The questions that come up before a second decoder is booked in.
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