Showmax: Device removal limit reached

[Jola]

When don't you Tweet the ShowMax guys; if you have not already.

There are very active on Twitter.

Or is just not worth a hassle to explain to people who would not understand?

Will try, but I doubt that it will be worth the effort.

I won't touch Showmax until they sort out the devices issues.

 

[profeet]

When don't you Tweet the ShowMax guys; if you have not already.

There are very active on Twitter.

Or is just not worth a hassle to explain to people who would not understand?

Please next time don't just assume there is no communications.

I'm already on no 7 with them and I just sent them another message. The thing is you can only ask so many times and give so many chances, look at date of OP; nothing has really happened if we are really honest here.

 

[FiestaST]

Err...I did not assume....hence I clearly stated "if you have not already."

Additionally my last line in that post also made reference that if you had possibly made contact sometimes it really is fruitless when talking to the wrong people or people who just don't know.

Hopefully they can somehow sort out your issue....somehow.

 

[profeet]

I think think of quite a few ways from top of my head, but from my experience I can only guess it was the "smart" person in the wrong position within the project who made this call.

If it was not then perhaps its time to revisit the actual implementation or rethink a few blocks of code. Surely you know when a stream is active and when it is not; on top of that you can do a simple time elapse and make the call.

But they wanted to lock down the devices :erm:

Lets for forget about only being concerned about the current active streams

 

[profeet]

LOL

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[profeet]

I've been wondering why don't they just:

1. Count current active streams
2. or a Windows player and it identifies itself as an unique device

.

 

[backstreetboy]

This is still the case 4 years later. Pathetic!

 

[cpu.]

I don't have this issue since all devices are Android. The quality is also ok.

But off-topic: The big issue I have is the bright colours on Android TV. If the thumbnail contain mostly, for example yellow, the synopsis background is bright yellow (Watchmen). Even white, pink etc. Sometimes white font on a light background.

Very unpleasant especially at night.

 

[krycor]

device limit issues = sucky for the limit, but i've not had issues like ghosting, duplicates ect because i use their app on tvs, ios, android etc. So yah.. blame google chrome for screwing up their device ids between updates me thinks.

They can alleviate this somewhat by making a dumb chrome app which offers some basic offline services to entice users but does a better job of device identification despite chrome. my 2c.. and even then a PGA should be able to do this already installed or not.

PS. I agree with the active streams thing somewhat but costing in SA is tougher as u need to factor in smaller population, higher cost (USD vs ZAR revenue) and i suspect their bigger cost is license per watch(more views) rather than bigger players who worry about bandwidth & distribution(stream).

Their sub cost is low.. so im not complaining too much but i'd pay R25-40 more for no limit on streams and maybe more profiles or more live streaming sport events or pay per view seasons. at R50-150