{"id":587950,"date":"2025-03-24T07:06:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T05:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=587950"},"modified":"2025-03-24T07:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T05:09:37","slug":"good-news-for-dstv-users-ditching-the-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/587950-good-news-for-dstv-users-ditching-the-dish.html","title":{"rendered":"Good news for DStv users ditching the dish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MultiChoice recently announced<\/a> changes in pricing for most of its DStv products, effective from 1 April 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, its DStv Stream packages are retaining their current fees, making them even more attractive to those willing to shift away from a satellite-and-dish product to streaming-only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DStv’s top-end Premium package on satellite is increasing from R929 to R979 next month, a hike which roughly in line with annual inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The streaming-only option remains R799 on a month-to-month option, which is now 18% cheaper than using the satellite package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customers willing to commit for longer can get an even better price of R699 per month on an annual contract as part of an ongoing promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the same price that DStv cost in 2014 and is over 40% cheaper than it will be to use the satellite package from next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be noted that both the month-to-month and contract options also include a subscription to MultiChoice’s Showmax video streaming service, valued at R99 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, the effective price of access to DStv’s live channels \u2014 including the most extensive selection of sports \u2014 is actually R700 on a month-to-month basis or R600 on a contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some South Africans have expressed frustration with DStv’s prices compared to international streaming services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, multiple MyBroadband comparisons<\/a> have shown that the streaming-only option is unmatched when it comes to sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the only platform in South Africa that offers live coverage of all high-profile rugby, cricket, football, tennis, golf, motorsport, boxing, athletics, and fighting events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar services based overseas \u2014 like Sky Sports and Now TV \u2014 offer less content relevant to South Africa and are generally more expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also exclude any additional live channels or on-demand content outside of sport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showmax is particularly well-liked for its locally-relevant movies and TV shows, including crime documentaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also boasts a strong slate of international content like HBO’s critically-acclaimed series and a wide range of content from major US production houses such as Paramount and Warner Bros. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Showmax features a mix of new and old local and international content. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Big streaming change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While many people welcomed DStv Premium’s reduced R699 price when it was introduced in September 2024, some continued to be frustrated by the single concurrent stream for TVs or monitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, DStv recently announced a major change<\/a>, restoring the ability to use up to two simultaneous streams on any device with each subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The update offers greater flexibility to customers, making it easier for them to watch what they want when they want,” MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although DStv satellite customers will be paying more per month, they will also get the benefit of an additional stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can also enjoy more simultaneous viewing instances in total as a decoder subscriber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be emphasised that a good experience on DStv Stream will require an uncapped Internet package with a minimum of 4Mbps speeds or 10Mbps for high definition streaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, considering the rapid expansion of fixed and mobile broadband in South Africa, there are likely far more people for who this has become a viable option than a few years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The table below compares the pricing of DStv’s satellite and streaming-only packages, effective from 1 April 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Package<\/th>DStv satellite<\/th>DStv Stream month-to-month<\/th>DStv Stream 12-month contract<\/th>Savings over satellite option (month-to-month or contract)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Premium<\/td>R979<\/td>R799<\/td>R699<\/td>18% to 40%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Compact Plus<\/td>R659<\/td>R549<\/td>Not available<\/td>17%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Compact <\/td>R479<\/td>R349<\/td>R299<\/td>25% to 38%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Family<\/td>R339<\/td>R299<\/td>Not available<\/td>24%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Access<\/td>R150<\/td>R99<\/td>Not available<\/td>34%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DStv satellite users can save up to 40% on their monthly subscription by switching to the streaming-only product. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":502050,"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":[85,88318,88200,77214,475],"class_list":["post-587950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-satellite","tag-dstv-stream","tag-dstv-streaming","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587950"}],"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=587950"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588016,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587950\/revisions\/588016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}