DStv's edge over Netflix
While Netflix is the world's top service in on-demand video streaming, its plan to ramp up its live streaming offering to compete with seasoned live content broadcasters and streamers like DStv could prove challenging and take time.
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DStv's embarrassing streaming limit and resolution
DStv offers far fewer concurrent streams than other major video streaming services in South Africa, in addition to an inferior streaming resolution.
The MultiChoice-owned company controversially reduced the number of concurrent streams on all...
Netflix posts best Q1 subscriber growth since 2020
Netflix Inc. posted its best start to the year since 2020, attracting more new customers than anyone expected thanks to a strong slate of original programs and a crackdown on password sharing.
The company added 9.33 million customers in the...
Netflix explains why cheaper extra member feature is not available in South Africa
Netflix has explained the reasoning behind South African subscribers not getting the option to add discounted extra members to accounts.
After years of not caring all that much about subscribers sharing their...
What is this nonsense?
I have my Netflix account on various devices like my iPhone, my wife's iPhone, our Apple TV, an iPad my wife uses and our son uses, etc. My wife uses the iPad almost every night at home when we go to bed and this afternoon gets a message on the iPad about it not being...
Netflix shutting down cheap ad-free plan — What to expect in South Africa
Netflix's discontinuation of its Basic ad-free plan overseas will not impact South Africa.
The video streaming giant's bigwigs revealed it would gradually phase out the entry-level ad-free plan over the coming months...
Netflix records biggest quarterly subscriber growth since start of Covid-19 pandemic
Netflix Inc. signed up 13.1 million customers in the final three months of 2023, the streaming giant’s best quarter of growth since viewers were stuck at home in the early days of the pandemic.
The strong...
Netflix's head of film starting his own company
Scott Stuber, who built Netflix Inc. into Hollywood’s most prolific movie studio, will leave the streaming giant in March to start a new company.
Stuber will stay on as global film chairman at least until the Academy Awards in March to wrap up...
Joining Netflix, YouTube and Spotify won't make dedicated apps for Apple Vision Pro
Google’s YouTube and Spotify Technology SA, the world’s most popular video and music services, are joining Netflix Inc. in steering clear of Apple Inc.’s upcoming mixed-reality headset.
YouTube said in a...
Netflix not making dedicated Apple Vision Pro app
Netflix Inc. isn’t planning to launch an app for Apple Inc.’s upcoming Vision Pro headset, marking a high-profile snub of the new technology by the world’s biggest video subscription service.
Rather than designing a Vision Pro app — or even...
What R1,000 in biggest tech shares bought at start of 2023 would be worth now
This year has been great for tech stock investors, with the share prices of companies like Nvidia, Meta Platforms, Tesla, and AMD all increasing by more than 100% between 3 January and 26 December 2023.
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Netflix publishes full viewership numbers on all titles for first time ever
Netflix Inc. is ready to tell the world how many people watch its shows.
On Tuesday, the company released global midyear viewer data for every title on its service, the first of what Netflix said will be regular...
Grand Theft Auto trilogy coming to Netflix Games
Netflix Inc. plans to offer three updated versions of the Grand Theft Auto video games on its mobile platform next month, bolstering its lineup with one of the best-selling titles of all time.
Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas will...
Netflix price hikes in US, UK, and France
Netflix price hikes in US, UK, and FranceNetflix Inc. is raising prices for some customers in the US, UK and France after posting its best quarter for subscriber growth in years, a sign of management’s confidence in the future even as rival streaming...
DStv Premium vs Netflix Premium price hikes in South Africa — 2016 to 2023
DStv Premium's price has increased more than Netflix Premium's since the latter first launched in South Africa — both in rand value and on a percentage basis.
MyBroadband compared the prices of these two packages over...
Netflix's password sharing crackdown paying off in the US — study
Netflix's crackdown on password sharing has continued to help drive new subscriptions to the popular streaming service in the US, according to a study by Antenna.
The firm uses a combination of information — including purchase...
Netflix testing game streaming on TVs
Netflix has announced that it is expanding the availability of its games to more devices, including TVs and computers.
The company's games are currently only available on iOS and Android devices. However, a small number of Netflix users in the UK and...
How to beat Netflix's password-sharing crackdown for free
At least one reputable virtual private network (VPN) service allows Netflix users to bypass the streaming service's recently-introduced password-sharing limits — at no additional cost.
While the streaming giant at one point openly...