{"id":190138,"date":"2016-12-08T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T06:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190138"},"modified":"2016-12-08T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T07:54:08","slug":"more-device-support-from-showmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/190138-more-device-support-from-showmax.html","title":{"rendered":"More device support from ShowMax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShowMax has added support for many devices in 2016, including Apple TV 4th Gen, Chromecast, Explora, and AirPlay \u2013 and this trend is set to continue.<\/p>\n<p>The company is currently rolling out a revised Android app that supports Android TV and the ShowMax PlayStation 4 app is in testing.<\/p>\n<p>ShowMax is also aggressively growing its footprint, which saw the company launch a new tier of ShowMax in Kenya &#8211; complete with M-PESA integration and data-saving features.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn South Africa, we\u2019ve put partnerships in place with the likes of FNB, Standard Bank, ABSA, MWEB, Game, Vox, Telkom, and\u00a0Vodacom,\u201d said ShowMax\u2019s African head Chris Savides.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chris-Savides.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190142 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chris-Savides.jpg\" alt=\"chris-savides\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chris-Savides.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chris-Savides-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve been busy getting prepaid vouchers into stores across SA and have been building out our CDN,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s aim of offering the biggest, and highest-quality, SVOD catalogue on the continent is also pushing it to constantly add new shows and movies.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, ShowMax is aiming to \u201cbe on more devices, in more countries, to keep the flow of new content coming, and to add new functionality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ShowMax users will also see a \u201cnew look&#8221; user interface soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur challenge remains solving the data issue for customers and we\u2019ve got some pretty cool ideas in the works on this,\u201d said Savides.<\/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\" target=\"_blank\">Vodacom partners with DStv and ShowMax for new TV service<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShowMax is rolling out a revised Android app that supports Android TV and is testing its PS4 app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[40026,35,32140],"class_list":["post-190138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-chris-savides","tag-headline","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190138"}],"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=190138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190452,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190138\/revisions\/190452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}