{"id":472179,"date":"2022-12-01T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T09:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=472179"},"modified":"2022-12-01T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:06:03","slug":"dstv-streama-gets-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/472179-dstv-streama-gets-disney.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv Streama gets Disney+"},"content":{"rendered":"

MultiChoice has announced the Disney+ video streaming app is now available on its DStv Streama multimedia box.<\/p>\n

“Now with upgrades that improve the viewing experience, DStv Streama will carry Disney+ content, bringing the best of international content right to its customers’ screens,” MultiChoice said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Disney+ includes a wide range of feature-length films, documentaries, live-action and animated series, and short-form content from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.<\/p>\n

It also boasts movies and TV shows from Disney’s Star brand, which includes productions by 20th Century Studios, Disney Television Studios, FX, and Searchlight Pictures.<\/p>\n

Launched at the start of October 2022<\/strong><\/a>, the DStv Streama is a smart TV box that connects to the Internet, similar to the myriad Android TV boxes on the market and Apple TV.<\/p>\n

Instead of the Android TV or tvOS operating systems, it runs on the open-source RDK platform.<\/p>\n

It lets DStv subscribers stream their chosen channel package and content and access several third-party streaming apps.<\/p>\n

The introduction of Disney+ came after confusion over the app’s absence from the Streama<\/strong><\/a> when it launched.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice’s original physical and online marketing material for the DStv Streama showed that it would support Disney+ alongside several other third-party streaming apps.<\/p>\n

Demo devices seen by MyBroadband during the company’s multimedia showcase also had the Disney+ app available.<\/p>\n

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DStv Streama interface shown at MultiChoice’s 2022 Multimedia Showcase<\/p><\/div>\n

However, when the Streama launched, we soon discovered that Disney+ was absent from the Apps section on the device we bought.<\/p>\n

We found the omission curious, particularly given that DStv had entered into a partnership with Walt Disney Africa to make Disney+ available on the Explora Ultra and let DStv customers add a subscription to the service on their bills at a discount.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband asked MultiChoice why Disney+ was unavailable on the DStv Streama at launch.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice said it would onboard the Disney+ app to the Streama “as soon as possible” as it continued to develop the box’s functionality over time.<\/p>\n

In addition to Disney+, the Streama also carries the Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Showmax, YouTube, and YouTube Kids apps.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice South Africa CEO Nyiko Shiburi says that the DStv Streama upgrade will seek to offer seamless viewing of entertainment content to customers, all in one place.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Acorn TV video streaming service shutting down in South Africa<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DStv previously advertised that Disney+ would be available on the Streama at launch. It has finally arrived about two months later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":462487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[12857,85,66236,475,62312],"class_list":["post-472179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-disney","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-streama","tag-multichoice","tag-video-streaming-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472179"}],"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\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472199,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472179\/revisions\/472199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}