{"id":267107,"date":"2018-07-04T08:04:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=267107"},"modified":"2018-07-04T08:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T06:05:30","slug":"netflix-testing-new-ultra-subscription-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/267107-netflix-testing-new-ultra-subscription-tier.html","title":{"rendered":"Netflix testing new Ultra subscription tier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is testing an &#8220;Ultra&#8221; tier, placed above its Premium tier.\u00a0Premium is currently its most expensive subscription option.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuttoandroid.net\/news\/netflix-ufficiale-piano-ultra-587363\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tutto Android<\/strong><\/a>, the Ultra subscription tier will be priced at \u20ac16.99.<\/p>\n<p>The new tier will allow four devices to receive UHD or 4K video and audio streaming simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from Phone Arena, promotional material for the Ultra tier shows the maximum number of simultaneous devices for the Standard and Premium plans decreased to 1 and 2 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Premium plans allows UHD streaming on four devices at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/netflix-rumored-to-be-introducing-new-ultra-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CNET<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it was testing the new tier, stating it is looking at different price points and features to understand how consumers value the service.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that not all subscribers would see the Ultra subscription tier during the test, and it may not be implemented.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/265485-vodacom-vs-mtn-netflix-data-usage.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom vs MTN \u2013 Netflix data usage<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is testing an &#8220;Ultra&#8221; tier, placed above its Premium tier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":236520,"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":[42436,2054,52149,42386,52147,52145],"class_list":["post-267107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-basic","tag-netflix","tag-standard","tag-subscription","tag-tier","tag-ultra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267107"}],"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=267107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267117,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267107\/revisions\/267117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}