MultiChoice has built Chromecast support for its DStv Now app and is waiting on the relevant content licensing to be finalised before rolling out the feature.<\/p>\n
Graeme Cumming, group general manager of digital media at DStv Digital Media, said\u00a0several features, including Chromecasting, were unlocked when DStv decided to stop supporting Flash<\/strong><\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re busy getting studio clearances to do Chromecasting,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are restrictions on there.\u201d<\/p>\n Another\u00a0feature built into DStv Now after switching to a native HTML player was adaptive bitrate streaming.<\/p>\n The switch also allowed DStv to reduce the amount of buffering needed before a video starts.<\/p>\n MultiChoice has developed Chromecast support for DStv Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":186531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,20619,85,27627,39922],"class_list":["post-188946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-chromecast","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-now","tag-graeme-cumming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188946"}],"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=188946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188954,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188946\/revisions\/188954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: DStv Now gets new features after ditching Flash<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"