MultiChoice announces return of two concurrent DStv streams

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DStv brings back second stream

DStv has announced that it is bringing back the ability of DStv Premium, Compact Plus, and Compact customers to watch two concurrent streams as part of their subscription. The upgrade is rolling out to customers from today, 13 March 2025.

This will give subscribers the freedom to watch on any device, including smart TVs, laptops or smartphones, the pay-TV broadcaster said.
 
People had to find other alternatives when they got smacked with the stream limits and were forced to cancel.

Why would they come back now when they've been using the alternatives for this long? Nochoice shot themselves in the foot and as always, wait years to correct their mistakes as they bleed customers.
 
Anybody else getting flooded with DSTv/Multichoice spam calls lately? No idea how they got my number as I've never had anything to do with them.
 
They can detect when you are not on the same premises?
 
Lupus said:
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But does it actually work?

Think I once saw a warning message regarding the whole base household thing, but it wasn't a permanent thing and still worked even though we used the streaming bit at two households, with the decoder being at the parents ( decoder connected to the internet as well for a bigger catchup library).

Netflix base household restrictions work?
 
joshuatree said:
But does it actually work?

Think I once saw a warning message regarding the whole base household thing, but it wasn't a permanent thing and still worked even though we used the streaming bit at two households, with the decoder being at the parents ( decoder connected to the internet as well for a bigger catchup library).

Netflix base household restrictions work?
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No idea to be honest :-(
 
joshuatree said:
They can detect when you are not on the same premises?
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Unless I am reading it wrong, it doesn't say anything about this not working from two separate locations. If my SO was at home watching series and I was traveling and streaming on my laptop, it should work?
 
Agent_Smith said:
Unless I am reading it wrong, it doesn't say anything about this not working from two separate locations. If my SO was at home watching series and I was traveling and streaming on my laptop, it should work?
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Think the idea was to check- in once a while at the base household with the IP address for it to work continuously.
 
I thought multiple locations was okay. Wasn't part of the benefit of their streaming service to cater for what that gadget could do back in the day that allowed you to watch while away camping and such? Drifta or whatever it was called.
 
Flanders said:
I thought multiple locations was okay. Wasn't part of the benefit of their streaming service to cater for what that gadget could do back in the day that allowed you to watch while away camping and such? Drifta or whatever it was called.
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That thing was pretty cool, always wanted one :). I've still got one of those tiny little black and white TVs that I used to use when I worked at a Chicken/Burger Perfect.
 
Flanders said:
I thought multiple locations was okay. Wasn't part of the benefit of their streaming service to cater for what that gadget could do back in the day that allowed you to watch while away camping and such? Drifta or whatever it was called.
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I had a DStv Drifta.

It operated on a seperate mobile subscription with essential channels like SuperSport, M-Net, KyKNet. Think it ended up at R49 per month before it was ended. DStv didn't allow full screen on a laptop, but there was a screen resizer program plug in by a "Moe" user which allowed one to connect a laptop to a TV to view fullscreen. DStv had a tablet like Drifta as well.

It was a pain sometimes to find that signal with the little arial Drifta, worked like a LTE router, place it somewhere in your house and connect to it.
 
This might be to counter IPTV/WakaTV.

Let's see how vigilant the base household thing is.
 
Death said:
People had to find other alternatives when they got smacked with the stream limits and were forced to cancel.

Why would they come back now when they've been using the alternatives for this long? Nochoice shot themselves in the foot and as always, wait years to correct their mistakes as they bleed customers.
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This.
It's done.
 
When going to Settings on the Android TV app, there is a heading " DStv Home Base" , Manage your DStv Home Base Device.

Device Details:

I get the following:

Not in range of Home Base device

It seems that you are currently connected to a network that is different from the one where your DStv Home Base device is registered. Please ensure that both your DStv ( and cut off here and can't scroll to see more )

Gives a blank Username then

And an IP address. ( Mine , not home base which would be my brother's household)

Stream works though.
 
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