{"id":174760,"date":"2016-08-04T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T07:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=174760"},"modified":"2016-08-04T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T07:15:12","slug":"showmax-launches-multi-user-profiles-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/174760-showmax-launches-multi-user-profiles-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"ShowMax launches multi-user profiles feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShowMax has added support for\u00a0multiple user profiles on a single account to its\u00a0Android, Apple TV, iOS, and web apps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This feature makes it possible to customise the experience of users and to limit the access of children to age-suitable material,&#8221; said ShowMax.<\/p>\n<p>ShowMax Chief Product Officer Barron Ernst said users can now create individual watchlists and receive personalised recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps most importantly, this new feature makes it possible to create kids\u2019 profiles and protect children by ensuring only age-appropriate content is accessible,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Four age settings are available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Younger kids<\/li>\n<li>Older kids<\/li>\n<li>Teens<\/li>\n<li>Adults<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Profiles can be PIN-protected, and the watchlist and recently-watched summaries from one profile are not visible to other profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 11 profiles\u00a0can be created on a single subscription, with two profiles able to view content simultaneously.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on ShowMax<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/172470-showmax-reaches-10-million-views.html\">ShowMax reaches 10 million views<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/171847-how-much-dstv-spent-on-showmax.html\">How much DStv spent on ShowMax<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShowMax has added support for multiple user profiles on a single account to its Android, Apple TV, iOS, and web apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":135724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,32140],"class_list":["post-174760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174760"}],"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=174760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174764,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174760\/revisions\/174764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}