Cyfra+

Cyfra+
Cyfra+
Type Private
Industry Telecommunication
Founded November 16, 1998
Headquarters Warsaw, Poland
Products Direct broadcast satellite
Parent Canal+ Cyfrowy
Website cyfraplus.pl

Cyfra+ is a Polish digital satellite platform, owned and operated by French media company Canal+ ("Cyfra" is Polish for "Digit"). It offers 95 channels. By 2010, Cyfra+ had 1,6 million subscribers.

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Setbacks

  • Some channels disrespect the English soundtrack default setting and start with a Polish soundtrack when first turned on. In the past it affected HBO channels
  • From May 26, 2008 till Sep 2008, Discovery channels Adventure, World and Science did not provide English soundtracks as specified in the product offer
  • As of June 2, 2008, Zone Reality did not provide an English soundtrack. The track was retored later on.
  • As of Sep 2008, Discovery Channel does not provide an English soundtrack as specified in the product offer
  • Some Discovery Channel documentaries provide no English translations of non-English dialogs with English soundtrack
  • Some movie channels spontaneously switch to Polish sound track in the midst of a recording
  • Fox News is no longer available (as of August 2003).
  • English-language Al Jazeera was promised in April 2006, and was made available only in Nov 2006 (on the day the English version of the channel launched)
  • BBC Learning is no longer available (as of August 2006). In 2011, it was replaced with BBC Knowledge
  • BBC Prime was phased out by the end of 2007. In 2001, it was replaced with BBC Entertainment
  • As of Sep 1, 2006, for two continuous months, Hallmark Channel did not provide English sound track (only Polish dialogs). The service in English is now resumed
  • Occasionally, various channels do not provide advertised soundtracks (either English, Polish, original or other). This happened among others to Hallmark, Zone Reality, Discovery channels, C+, and others
  • In the period Dec 1, 2005 - Mar 31, 2007, all four Discovery channels included a digital protection signal that resulted in interrupted recordings (with 2-15% of the programmed recording missing). Recordings made with the record button (as opposed to the Timer) would simply stop in 3-15 minutes
  • National Geographic HD channel did not provide an English soundtrack (until 2011)

Philips PVR

As of Nov 30, 2007, users of Cyfra+ can choose an option of Cyfra PVR decoder.

Advantages

  • easy recording of programs from the program schedule
  • recording one program while watching others (twin converter needed to watch all channels while recording, some channels are also available on with a single converter)
  • HD quality on HD channels
  • recording all soundtracks along with the video solves the problem of language switching listed in setbacks
  • software updates via satellite often solve problems that plagued early users

Disadvantages

  • PLN 20 rental fee per month for the use of the PVR (PLN 10 extra as compared with cheaper decoders)
  • PVR often hangs up during the library preview while recording at the same time
  • menu system shows only in Polish (even though it is quite easy to master for speakers of other languages)
  • numerous bugs in software (those are gradually removed with monthly software updates)
  • very slow EPG that covers only a small subset of channels (around 8% of roughly 900 channels)

Limitations

  • not all channels and programs are available in the programming schedule (those need to be programmed manually, which is an arduous process)
  • library preview shows recordings in the default language, which is not English if the soundtrack name differs from "English" (e.g. "Original" or "Language 2", etc.)
  • limited set of options for managing the library of recordings
  • poor navigation in the library of recordings (lack of equivalents of PgDn, Home, End requires moving through dozens of recordings one by one)
  • lack of options for setting chapters in recordings stored on the hard disk
  • no options for editing the recordings such as deleting advertising, trimming, splitting, etc.
  • playback resume takes 4-7 seconds to play sound resulting in incomplete viewing (unless a rewind button is pressed). Rewind also results in 4-7 sec. break in sound
  • Polish subtitles on some movie channels cannot be turned off (subtitles in other languages are not available)
  • subtitles can be thrown out of synch with the sound (so that silent portions of a movie are subtitled with texts from dialogs occurring earlier or later)

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