{"id":188720,"date":"2016-11-23T14:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=188720"},"modified":"2016-11-23T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:07:18","slug":"dstv-now-gets-new-features-after-ditching-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/188720-dstv-now-gets-new-features-after-ditching-flash.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv Now gets new features after ditching Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/183888-dstv-is-ditching-flash.html\">dropping Flash<\/a><\/strong> as its streaming video player, MultiChoice has been able to build new features into its DStv Now platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All DStv Premium customers who stream content through the new native HTML video player will enjoy the convenience of never having to download another plugin again,&#8221; said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customers can watch their favourite shows instantaneously through reduced buffering and adaptive bitrates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Content\u00a0offered by DStv can be streamed across various browsers in Windows, Mac, and Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The new native player will automatically detect your\u00a0connection speed and adapt the video accordingly. Stream quality can also be adjusted manually through the settings menu.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice said it previously had to spend a lot of time encoding\u00a0content for various resolutions and bitrates, but it can now produce one asset and encode and encrypt on-the-fly.<\/p>\n<p>The lowest quality stream will start at 400 x 224 at 370kbps, and will be capped at 960 x 540 at 1,200kbps.<\/p>\n<p>DStv Now is available through the web or through\u00a0a mobile app &#8211; which is available on iOS and Android.<\/p>\n<p>DStv Catch Up content and live channels are only available to DStv Premium customers with an active PVR subscription.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/187079-vodacom-partners-with-dstv-and-showmax-for-new-tv-service.html\">Vodacom partners with DStv and ShowMax for new TV service<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Flash is gone, the future is looking bright for DStv Now, said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":131786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,27627],"class_list":["post-188720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-dstv-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188720"}],"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=188720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188724,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188720\/revisions\/188724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}