{"id":202180,"date":"2017-03-09T11:38:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=202180"},"modified":"2017-03-09T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:40:18","slug":"dstv-will-have-a-stand-alone-streaming-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/202180-dstv-will-have-a-stand-alone-streaming-service.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv will have a stand-alone streaming service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stand-alone DStv streaming service is something the broadcaster talks about a lot, said MultiChoice CEO Mark Rayner.<\/p>\n<p>Rayner said DStv will definitely have such a service in the future &#8211; the question is simply \u201cwhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around the world, broadcasters are testing \u201cskinny bundles\u201d and streaming services which are unbundled from their main cable or satellite TV packages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe jury is still out on the success of that,\u201d said Rayner.<\/p>\n<p>There is also still a debate about whether it is a better for customers to buy several smaller content packages, or a single large, more encompassing service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is something we talk about a lot, but are there concrete plans to launch on a specific date &#8211; no.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/201040-how-to-skip-the-dstv-price-increase.html\">How to skip the DStv price increase<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice will definitely launch a stand-alone streaming service in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":131786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,2546,475],"class_list":["post-202180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-mark-rayner","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202180"}],"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=202180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202182,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202180\/revisions\/202182"}],"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=202180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}