Showmax shuts down on 30 April

Jan

Jan

Who's the Boss?
Staff member
Joined
May 24, 2010
Messages
14,819
Reaction score
13,469
Location
The Rabbit Hole
End of the line for Showmax

Showmax will stop accepting new subscribers from 31 March and shut down on 30 April 2026, Canal+ Africa has announced to subscribers outside South Africa.

A spokesperson for MultiChoice, which is owned by Groupe Canal+, confirmed that South African subscribers are also impacted. Showmax Originals and other select titles are moving to DStv Stream.
 
Jan said:
End of the line for Showmax

Showmax will stop accepting new subscribers from 31 March and shut down on 30 April 2026, Canal+ Africa has announced to subscribers outside South Africa.

A spokesperson for MultiChoice, which is owned by Groupe Canal+, confirmed that South African subscribers are also impacted. Showmax Originals and other select titles are moving to DStv Stream.
Click to expand...
So they're not even going to keep it up long enough to transition people over to their Canal Streaming service. Interesting.

I was expecting them to keep Showmax up long enough to launch their own service and then transition people over, to keep them paying.
 
Just in time for the end of the English Premier League.

Will I need to pay a fortune for a DSTV subscription to watch or will they have an equivilent option to Showmax
 
Besides dstv, what else is a better option for streaming?? Some of showmax content wasn't bad and isn't bad. Amazon prime is affordable and Netflix.
 
Jan said:
End of the line for Showmax

Showmax will stop accepting new subscribers from 31 March and shut down on 30 April 2026, Canal+ Africa has announced to subscribers outside South Africa.

A spokesperson for MultiChoice, which is owned by Groupe Canal+, confirmed that South African subscribers are also impacted. Showmax Originals and other select titles are moving to DStv Stream.
Click to expand...
"Selected content" as opposed to "Everything"...

Now this is the article I expected: https://techcabal.com/2026/03/09/for-every-1-showmax-made-it-lost-2-50/

1773903124581.png

I wonder what that Miscellaneous is. 🤔
 
Carl_Johnson said:
This comment explains your very low Reaction ScoreTM
Click to expand...
No this does
Jul 16, 2004

They only really started adding reactions about 5 or 6 years ago and it looks like they're not regular poster.
 
I subbed to Showmax once for a month to watch something that was not available on other platforms, then whenever I wanted to watch it buffers like crazy (100mbs line) and it was unwatchable, then when I wanted to contact them I realize its hard to reach a human to talk to, and then cancelled.

Fortunately that show has been added to Netflix recently and no issue streaming there :)
 
Vorastra said:
So they're not even going to keep it up long enough to transition people over to their Canal Streaming service. Interesting.

I was expecting them to keep Showmax up long enough to launch their own service and then transition people over, to keep them paying.
Click to expand...

Same. They made all kinds of assurances about a "smooth transition". This all feels quite rushed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X