MultiChoice is looking into merging DStv Now and Showmax, but has no firm plan for how or when it might happen, said DStv Digital Media head Graeme Cumming.<\/p>\n
DStv Now is a streaming service available to DStv subscribers, and includes live TV channels and on-demand content.<\/p>\n
Showmax – which costs R99 per month as a standalone service – was recently\u00a0bundled for free<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>with DStv Now for\u00a0DStv Premium subscribers.<\/p>\n The move followed Naspers announcing that Showmax Africa and DStv Digital Media would be merged<\/strong><\/a> under a new division, which has yet to be named.<\/p>\n Cumming said there are currently no plans to give Showmax to subscribers on cheaper DStv packages. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s a Premium value-add,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n There are also currently no plans to partner with other streaming service providers such as Netflix and Hulu, although Cumming said they are open to the idea.<\/p>\n \u201cPartnerships are inevitable, but right now it\u2019s only Showmax.”<\/p>\n He added that there is a conscious effort on their part to bring DStv Now and Showmax together.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are trying to bring the best of both worlds to our customers,\u201d said Cumming.<\/p>\n MultiChoice is looking into merging DStv Now and Showmax, but has no firm plan for when it might happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":187127,"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":[85,39922,35,475,32140],"class_list":["post-230175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-graeme-cumming","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230175"}],"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=230175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230375,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230175\/revisions\/230375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Cheaper packages<\/h3>\n
Now read: DStv Now to launch for all DStv subscribers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"