MultiChoice CEO Calvo Mawela said limiting DStv streaming to one device is working well, but they have plans to allow more simultaneous streams per household.<\/p>\n
On 22 March 2022, MultiChoice started to limit DStv subscribers<\/strong><\/a> to live streaming on one device at a time.<\/p>\n The streaming limit applies to all DStv packages, and subscribers may still watch pre-downloaded content while someone else is streaming.<\/p>\n There was a significant backlash from DStv subscribers following the announcement, with some threatening to boycott MultiChoice.<\/p>\n Many DStv subscribers said it limits their family from enjoying different content at the same time, which is why they purchased the product.<\/p>\n Commenting on the streaming limit, Mawela said it had to be implemented to fight piracy.<\/p>\n “We have taken a decision to limit concurrent streaming because we see how people are sharing account details and even selling passwords for DStv streaming,” he said.<\/p>\n “It is unfair to content creators who invest a lot of money to create content.”<\/p>\n Mawela said they had seen an uptick in DStv streaming subscriptions following their decision to limit concurrent streaming.<\/p>\n MultiChoice’s latest results revealed that, while DStv struggled to gain subscribers, Connected Video users on the DStv app and Showmax showed strong growth.<\/p>\n Paying Showmax subscribers increased by 68% over the last year, while monthly online users increased by 28% overall.<\/p>\n “It supports the view that we have made the correct decision to limit concurrent streaming because people were abusing the system.”<\/p>\n It should be noted that DStv’s concurrent streaming limit does not apply to Showmax, which still allows two simultaneous streams.<\/p>\n The MultiChoice CEO added that they are looking at options to allow concurrent streams in one household.<\/p>\n “We should be able to get a solution on that to deploy,” Mawela said. He did not supply a time frame as to when people could expect the solution.<\/p>\n “In the meantime, we did not want this to be an ongoing problem, and we responded responsibly by limiting streaming to one device,” he said.<\/p>\n MultiChoice CEO Calvo Mawela said limiting DStv streaming to one device is working well, but they have plans to allow more simultaneous streams per household.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[24196,85,77214,35,475,59046],"class_list":["post-448258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-calvo-mawela","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-streaming","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-multichoice-connected-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448258"}],"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=448258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448260,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448258\/revisions\/448260"}],"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=448258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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