{"id":202320,"date":"2017-03-10T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T08:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=202320"},"modified":"2017-03-10T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T10:02:18","slug":"big-dstv-now-expansion-compact-extra-and-chromecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/202320-big-dstv-now-expansion-compact-extra-and-chromecast.html","title":{"rendered":"Big DStv Now expansion &#8211; Compact, Extra, and Chromecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has announced that the DStv Now live streaming service is expanding to DStv Extra and Compact subscribers, and will support the Google Chromecast.<\/p>\n<p>The Live TV and DStv Catch Up content on DStv Now will be as per the DStv package you are on.<\/p>\n<p>DStv Extra customers will have access to 47 channels on the go, while DStv Compact customers will get 36 channels. DStv Premium subscribers already\u00a0have access to 64 channels.<\/p>\n<p>You can register up to four devices for DStv Now on the same account. To set them up, you\u2019ll need a DStv Connect ID account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These features will become available to our DStv Compact and Extra customers at no extra cost during the first quarter of our new financial year (April),&#8221; said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n<p>Chromecast support is scheduled to arrive\u00a0in April. MultiChoice added that AirPlay support is also expected to launch during April.<\/p>\n<p>To use DStv Now on the Google Chromecast, MultiChoice\u00a0said you need to follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connect your Android device to a Wi-Fi network.<\/li>\n<li>Open the DStv Now app and select the content you want to watch.<\/li>\n<li>Press the \u201cCast\u201d button in the app.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy viewing on a big screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The DStv Now app is free on the Google <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.dstvmobile.android&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Play Store<\/a><\/strong> or Apple <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/za\/app\/dstv-now\/id467168196?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">App Store<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0or you can watch in your browser at now.dstv.com.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/202180-dstv-will-have-a-stand-alone-streaming-service.html\">DStv will have a stand-alone streaming service<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DStv Now live streaming service is expanding to DStv Extra and Compact subscribers, and will support the Google Chromecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":120242,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[20619,85,27627,167,35,475],"class_list":["post-202320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-chromecast","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-now","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202320"}],"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=202320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202340,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202320\/revisions\/202340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}