DStv working on "proximity control" system for increasing streaming limit

killerbyte said:
They just don't get it do they?
Kids are at home (old enough to look after themselves), mom and dad go away for the weekend but Dad wants to watch the rugby on his iPad. But little Suzie wants to watch a show on her iPad while older brother Koos is watching on the TV in the lounge.
But now Dad can't watch anything because he is not connecting from the same IP?!
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Name of the game is "Smile, cough up, and pay" we want all your moola ...
 
How hard is it to allow an additional streaming session if the IP matches that of an existing stream? I mean that is still absolutely ****, but really should be very easy to implement.
 
So what did you do, when your go on holiday and need to download and stream from different phones, because household watch there own programs, this ceo does not know what is going on, we pay 1000 a mouth to get tipe of service
 
NR7 said:
Lol. Will probably just end up being something simple, like checking for the same IP address for multiple devices in a house connecting to the same router.
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So bounce off "my" home network first, got it thanks..... :)
 
Syphonx said:
How hard is it to allow an additional streaming session if the IP matches that of an existing stream? I mean that is still absolutely ****, but really should be very easy to implement.
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I think someone has told the CEO about the possibility of using a VPN.

Dudley@123 said:
So what did you do, when your go on holiday and need to download and stream from different phones, because household watch there own programs
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Just in case anyone is asking the question unironically:

 
Lol... did the limits bite them in the ass?
 
rvZA said:
Lol... did the limits bite them in the ass?
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Nope, they thought they where clevA - and as usual it bit them in the ass, they lost a lot of advertising revenue. Now they want it back, on their own terms and it is going to bite their ass again, but they never learn. Ag shame.
 
DSTV have a problem they have too many people earning multi-million salaries. They are listed in the Stock Exchange.

Those on the Gravy Train, don't want to take a cut. The worst animal on earth, the share holder wants very good returns on their investment.

That puts their "balls" in a big vice.

So they where selling there Premium package, with 5 connections, 4 of which could be used for streaming.

So they decided that they did not mind binning 60% of their Prime Advertising viewers, and diluted their Premium package by 60% and still charged their Premium price.

Premium advertising viewers are the most valued by advertisers for obvious reasons. They the people who can buy more, of the advertised product.

The advertisers are not as stupid as DSTV hoped, so a big chunk of their advertising revenue disappeared.

People did not line up in droves to buy their Premium service like they expected.

Now they need to keep those edgy Share Holders happy, remember.

So we will make sharing possible again, but hey, hang on. We can buy a cheap box for R150.00 in China, load our own ROM on it, pushes the cost up to around R200.00. We sell it to the Plebs for R1400.00. We rake in the green stuff, our multi-million Rand salaries are safe, we get our Prime Advertisers revenue up, and we make money on all sides. The nasty share holders are happy - nice dream.
 
I stream Netflix and Zee5 off my Skyworth device, my laptop, phone, tablet and Smart TV. I haven't been told I'll need a Netflix or Zee5 specific device.

Just saying
 
When a service insults, and names their Premium PAYING customers "Pirates" in the local press, makes one wonder how legitimate their service is
 
Ahh... spend all that time and money on blocking people, they could have spend that on upgrading their stream. This shitty "1080" quality is like watching 1999 compressed videos ....
 
3WA said:
Nope. I'm not going to stop watching cricket. I'll subscribe to Premium if it comes to that.
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If only there was an F1TV-type subscription service where we would be able to sign up and watch cricket that way.
I don't have DStv and we use a family member's account to stream, but I'd much prefer to sign up. Especially if they had historical games to watch too (like F1TV's historical races).
 
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