DSTV stand-alone streaming product???

abjater

Well-Known Member
Joined
Oct 24, 2005
Messages
250
Reaction score
17
As per myBB article:
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/258313-dstv-working-on-streaming-only-package-to-take-on-netflix.html
"..This comes after MultiChoice CEO Mark Rayner said at the start of 2017 that DStv will definitely have a streaming service in the future – the only question was when. " ...... "Regarding launch timeframes, Mawela said their standalone streaming package is still a work in progress." -02 May 2018

And:
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/266741-what-multichoice-is-doing-about-declining-dstv-premium-subscriber-numbers.html
"..To respond to the changing market, MultiChoice said it is developing a standalone DStv streaming service. " -03 July 2018

I pose the question to the Collective Intelligence of myBB:
Is there any more info out there, as to when / if the stand-alone product will be available? Are they continuing development, or silently dev/null'ed the project, in favor of DSTVNow as we presently have it, linked to a Premium subscription.

Or is my definition of stand-alone so horribly horrendously bad, that they were referring to what we now have as DSTVNow, an add-on to the Premium Subscription? Punt, kant-en-klaar.

PS: Let's not go into the money-making debate of Premium vs Netflix-related pricing. :-D
 
Last edited:
DSTV is bleeding customers from the top tier packages. These people are subscribing to services like Netflix. Why would they ever want to subscribe to a DSTV service? It's not like it will be price competitive. You think DSTV would release a package, to compete with Netflix, for under R600 pm? The only reason for such a service is for people to legally watch sports.
 
I posed the same ? to multichoice on FB , referring to those exact articles a month ago & got a resounding ... "watch the space"........... i do not believe this will ever happen well not anytime soon whilst they have premium subs
 
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X