DSTV Broadband now available

I've got this:

When trying to view a video, a manual login is required. But when an active username and password is supplied the system simply says: “You currently do not have an active DSTV Premium Subscription for the ID Number You supplied.”
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As quoted in the article! :(
 
rpm said:
They are indeed. Locally hosted by MWEB - both part of Naspers as Highflyer pointed out.
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Okay cool, thanks rpm. Maybe it's just the fact that everyone is checking it out now, because it's much slower to browse the site than it was this morning ;)
 
Windows only - blah.
 
rpm said:
Just hit play...it will work :-)
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Not working.

I wonder if it's because I played the first file I downloaded on the office pc? I'm using the house pc now and it's not working? ;)
 
56kMan said:
The size of a standard movie – in this case The Price of Forgiveness – is around 187 MB in low resolution and 416 MB in high resolution. A shorter show like Egoli is 55 MB in low resolution and 121 MB in high resolution.
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Can someone please tell me how long Egoli is?
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Well? Anybody?
 
So far no success in playing in Explorer. Now downloading a file, but terrible news-NO RESUME support. So if you crash during a 500mbyte download, you start all over again!
 
ernstn: use Firefox + one of the many download managers available for it
 
DRM also stops me from playing the file in WMP after downloading. So basically I have wasted 150mbytes for absolutely nothing???
 
This is not proper IP TV though. It is a South Africanized media spinner to be honest. Nothing here that is really news folks. Move along now....

You would have to pay an arm and a leg in bandwidth to optimally use this service and frankly I prefer overseas downloads if I am going to burn bandwidth. Thinking about it now, the IS local only accounts can make this interesting. Can people give speed test results please or is this service hosted overseas???
 
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teraside said:
Egoli is normally from 18:00 to 18:30. Remove the ad breaks and it's about 20 minutes long. :rolleyes:
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Thanks.

20min x 60 = 1200s

121MB x 8 = 968Mb

968Mb / 1200s = 0.807Mbps

Breakthrough algorithm invented by DSTV engineers? I think not. :D

Eish! :(
 
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ernstn said:
DRM also stops me from playing the file in WMP after downloading. So basically I have wasted 150mbytes for absolutely nothing???
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Strange...works fine for me. Did you sign in etc?
 
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