MultiChoice Africa is a multi-channel pay television platform provider . It provides premium television entertainment to over one million digital subscribers in 47 countries on the African continent and adjacent Indian Ocean islands through its DStv Bouquets. MCG has just launched the PVR decoder which has the key feature of being able to record up to 80 hours of video on a hard drive. Unlike DVDs, the PVR's hard drive allows recording and playback at the same time.