{"id":274123,"date":"2018-09-04T08:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T06:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=274123"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:03:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T07:03:15","slug":"the-difference-between-r99-and-r169-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/274123-the-difference-between-r99-and-r169-netflix.html","title":{"rendered":"The difference between R99 and R169 Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix recently announced new pricing for South Africa, with a shift away from US dollar prices <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/273205-new-south-african-rand-pricing-for-netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>to rand<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new rand pricing is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 R99 pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Standard<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 R139 pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Premium<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 R169 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new pricing structure guarantees a fixed monthly subscription fee for South Africans, who previously paid an appropriate dollar conversion &#8211; which was affected by the exchange rate.<\/p>\n<p>Following the publication of the new pricing, Netflix&#8217;s different subscription tiers were once again brought into the spotlight, with a reader asking what the main differences between the packages on offer &#8211; Basic, Standard, and Premium &#8211; are.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly, do lower-end packages lose out on any content?<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Netflix packages<\/h3>\n<p>The short answer is no &#8211; your package does not influence the content you get, and all the plans receive the same series, movies, and shows.<\/p>\n<p>The differences come into play when you look at the quality of the streams and the number of devices you can use your Netflix account on.<\/p>\n<p>First off, the different plans offer different streaming resolutions &#8211; essentially, how good the video looks.<\/p>\n<p>A higher resolution means more pixels on your screen, which translates to a better picture quality &#8211; especially when using large screens like a modern TV.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum resolutions on offer from the Netflix packages, as noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xfinity.com\/support\/articles\/netflix-x1-app-video-resolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Xfinity<\/strong><\/a>, are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 SD (Standard Definition), 480p (854 x 480 in 16:9)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Standard<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 HD (High Definition), 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 in 16:9)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Premium<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 UHD (Ultra High Definition), 2160p (3,840 x 2,160 in 16:9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As &#8220;more pixels&#8221; are being served to a user as the streaming resolutions go up, you will require a faster Internet connection to ensure your series and movies play smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix therefore recommends the following broadband connections for its stream resolutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SD<\/strong> &#8211; 3Mbps<\/li>\n<li><strong>HD<\/strong> &#8211; 5Mbps<\/li>\n<li><strong>UHD<\/strong> &#8211; 25Mbps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Multiple devices<\/h3>\n<p>The second difference between the Netflix packages is how many screens you can watch on at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an account, and your sibling, partner, or parent wants to watch Netflix too &#8211; whenever they want &#8211; you can add a profile for them or give them your access details.<\/p>\n<p>The number of simultaneous screens available &#8211; users watching at the same time on different devices &#8211; depends on what account you have, and is limited as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 1 screen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Standard<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 2 screens<\/li>\n<li><strong>Premium\u00a0\u2013 <\/strong>4 screens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides the differences listed above, all the tiers share the same properties: they work on all Netflix-supported devices, all the content is available to watch as often as you want, you can cancel at any time, and your first month is free.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/273629-netflix-does-not-want-to-use-the-term-binge-watching-anymore.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Netflix does not want to use the term \u201cbinge watching\u201d anymore<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the main differences between the Netflix tiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":272195,"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":[35,2054,75],"class_list":["post-274123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-headline","tag-netflix","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274123"}],"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=274123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274125,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274123\/revisions\/274125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}