{"id":110528,"date":"2014-09-25T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T08:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=110528"},"modified":"2014-09-25T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T08:30:57","slug":"dstv-boxoffice-launched-for-compact-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/110528-dstv-boxoffice-launched-for-compact-subscribers.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv BoxOffice launched for Compact subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice announced in a press release on Thursday, 25 September 2014 that the decoder-based version of its BoxOffice movie rental service has launched to DStv Compact subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, BoxOffice rentals via decoders with personal video recording (PVR) was available to DStv Extra and DStv Premium subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>To access BoxOffice from their decoders, subscribers must have an HD PVR or DStv Explora set-top box and pay the monthly PVR access fee of R75.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers may then activate BoxOffice on their decoders by sending their smartcard number in an SMS message to 37569.<\/p>\n<p>The online version of BoxOffice is available to non-subscribers, but subscribers get a discount on rentals.<\/p>\n<p>For recent releases, subscribers pay R27 per rental. On BoxOffice Online, non-subscribers are charged R32 per rental.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More DStv news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/110396-dstv-boxoffice-catch-up-coming-to-xbox-one.html\"><strong>DStv BoxOffice, Catch Up coming to Xbox One<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/110160-dstv-vs-node-vs-vidi-sa-on-demand-video-shootout.html\"><strong>DStv vs Node vs Vidi: SA on-demand video shootout<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/109706-new-dstv-channels-revealed.html\"><strong>New DStv channels revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/109378-dstv-telkom-vs-other-digital-media-in-sa-show-me-the-money.html\"><strong>DStv, Telkom vs other digital media in SA: show me the money!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DStv Compact subscribers with an HD PVR now have access to decoder-based BoxOffice movie rental service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,1645,35,475],"class_list":["post-110528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-boxoffice","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}