{"id":15115,"date":"2010-09-13T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-13T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T09:05:00","slug":"dstv-box-office-in-the-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/15115-dstv-box-office-in-the-pipeline.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv Box Office in the pipeline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May this year MultiChoice launched its revamped <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/12284-DStv-DEMAND-through-MWEB-ADSL.html\">DStv ON Demand service<\/a> which is available through any of the DStv PVR decoders.<\/p>\n<p>The first DStv ON Demand offering is essentially a &lsquo;catch up&rsquo; service for TV series and sports highlights at a time that is convenient to them. It is available to Premium subscribers only and the first phase of the service is free.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice also launched a Video On Demand (VOD) service which currently offers subscribers approximately 20 additional hours of premium content each month for free.&nbsp; This logical next step is obviously a paid-for video on demand where subscribers can rent content.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice hinted previously that they are planning a &lsquo;video rental&rsquo; and paid video-on-demand service on its DStv platform, and it has now emerged that the company is trialing a Box Office service.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation suggests that MultiChoice is planning to launch a DStv Box Office service where subscribers can rent movies which have not been shown on DStv yet and watch it at home.<\/p>\n<p>According to one source the new DStv Box Office will form part of the DStv ON Demand platform, but the exact details remain sketchy.&nbsp; Pricing guidelines are also not know.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice would also not give more details about this service, merely saying that they do not wish to comment on the DStv Box Office service at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When MultiChoice is ready to launch new services or channels, we will make the necessary announcements to the media,&rdquo; said a MultiChoice spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/266955-DStv-Box-Office-video-rentals-planned\">DStv Box Office planned?<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp; &lt;&lt; Give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation suggests that DStv is planning a Box Office service where subscribers can rent movies \u2018online\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}