{"id":183888,"date":"2016-10-24T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=183888"},"modified":"2016-10-24T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T12:59:51","slug":"dstv-is-ditching-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/183888-dstv-is-ditching-flash.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv is ditching Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice told subscribers it has stopped supporting Flash video plugins.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the \u201cdownload and watch later\u201d option on its desktop app will no longer be available, and the app itself will be discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers will still be able to stream shows and movies online, and the DStv Now app for Android and iOS will still be able to download content for later viewing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince all the major players are discontinuing Flash and the Desktop Player is Flash-based, support for the Desktop Player has now come to an end,\u201d said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeb standards have come a very long way and there is no more need for a separate plugin like Silverlight or Flash to play protected content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of Flash, the DStv website will use a JavaScript player and the native digital rights management capabilities in browsers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, Encrypted Media Extensions with Common Encryption to provide the different video packaging and encryption combinations for all the major browsers,\u201d said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/181558-why-the-new-dstv-explora-has-a-smaller-hard-drive.html\">Why the new DStv Explora has a smaller hard drive<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has stopped using Adobe Flash, and with it killed its desktop player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":170105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,475],"class_list":["post-183888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183888"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184136,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183888\/revisions\/184136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}