MultiChoice plans to bring 4K content to DStv and Showmax Pro customers as early as November next year, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed.<\/p>\n
“MultiChoice is investigating higher resolution options across its streaming products, but there are no dates to confirm at this stage,” the spokesperson told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n
MultiChoice’s DStv streaming service currently streams at a maximum resolution of 1080p, while Showmax tops out at 720p.<\/p>\n
According to a TechCentral\u00a0report<\/a><\/strong>, MultiChoice Connected Video chief operating officer Barry Dubovsky said the broadcaster aims to showcase 4K content by the start of the 2022 soccer World Cup.<\/p>\n “4K, heading into the World Cup\u2026 It’s not a promise, but we want to ensure we can get the experience as good as it possibly can be ahead of that flagship event,” TechCentral quoted Dubovsky as saying.<\/p>\n While it is working on 4K content, MultiChoice emphasised its priority to minimise data costs for its customers.<\/p>\n “The cost of data is still a major barrier across Africa, so our tech focus remains on reducing data consumption,” the spokesperson told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n This is not the first time MultiChoice has delved into 4K resolution streaming, having conducted a test<\/a><\/strong> in 2018 that saw the final four matches of the FIFA World Cup stream in 2160p resolution at 50 frames per second.<\/p>\n The test made the South African broadcaster the first in Africa to live stream in 4K resolution.<\/p>\n Muhammad Khan, then-CTO of MultiChoice Connected Video, explained that the broadcaster conducted the test to better understand third-party cloud solutions and their effectiveness when combined with existing digital rights management systems.<\/p>\n “This was the first UHD live stream in Africa, and doing this at 50 frames per second utilising a new codec was a big win for us and sets us up well for future tests and the eventual deployment of UHD as a new standard for streaming,” Khan said at the time.<\/p>\n MultiChoice is working on bringing 4K content to DStv and Showmax Pro customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":418374,"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":[74584,74586,85,35,475,32140],"class_list":["post-424912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-4k-resolution","tag-barry-dubovsky","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424912"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424916,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424912\/revisions\/424916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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