{"id":190722,"date":"2016-12-06T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190722"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:59:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T10:59:39","slug":"showmax-gets-android-tv-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/190722-showmax-gets-android-tv-support.html","title":{"rendered":"ShowMax gets Android TV support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new version of ShowMax&#8217;s Android app expands support to include media players and smart TVs running Android TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the fifth major expansion since we launched ShowMax.\u00a0It means that anyone with a compatible Android media player or smart TV running Android software can access ShowMax,&#8221; said the company.<\/p>\n<p>ShowMax is now available on a range of\u00a0smart TVs, mobile devices, and media players.<\/p>\n<p>The main additions to the new ShowMax Android app that enable TV usage are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android TV user interface optimised for large-screen layout.<\/li>\n<li>Support added for remote control input.<\/li>\n<li>Support for higher-resolution video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To run ShowMax, Android devices must be running Android 4.1.0 (Jelly Bean) or higher.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/188172-vodacom-and-showmax-an-example-of-the-partnership.html\">Vodacom and ShowMax &#8211; an example of the partnership<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShowMax has updated its Android app to support Android TV devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,397,167,32140],"class_list":["post-190722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190722"}],"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=190722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190730,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190722\/revisions\/190730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}