{"id":157957,"date":"2016-03-09T09:16:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T07:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=157957"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:59:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T07:59:12","slug":"skype-ending-support-for-smart-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/157957-skype-ending-support-for-smart-tvs.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype ending support for smart TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft-owned messaging service Skype has announced it will end support for its smart TV app at the end of June, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-35752658\">BBC reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>From there it will be up to manufacturers to decide whether to remove the software from their respective app marketplaces, or continue offering an unsupported service.<\/p>\n<p>Skype said it plans to focus on its tablet and phone services.<\/p>\n<p>It said it has found that subscribers prefer to make calls from a mobile device from their living rooms, despite the size advantage a TV screen offers.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Skype and messaging services<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/157797-unlimited-whatsapp-fair-use-limit-explained.html\"><strong>Unlimited WhatsApp fair use limit explained<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/156807-whatsapp-ending-blackberry-and-nokia-support.html\"><strong>WhatsApp ending BlackBerry and Nokia support<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/154372-new-trojan-can-record-your-skype-conversations.html\"><strong>New trojan can record your Skype conversations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/152015-free-skype-group-video-calling-on-android-and-ios.html\"><strong>Free Skype group video calling on Android and iOS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype will stop support for its smart TV app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":139216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,16],"tags":[36,123,1089],"class_list":["post-157957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-skype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157957"}],"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=157957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157959,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157957\/revisions\/157959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}