DStv Premium offers incredible value for money when considering the number of streams or broadcasts it allows per subscription after its recent changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In April 2025, DStv increased its concurrent streaming device limit to two devices on its Premium, Compact Plus, and Compact plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company reduced this number to one device in February 2022 as part of a crackdown on password sharing and piracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, some DStv subscribers said they found the restriction excessive, as it prevented viewers in the same household from streaming different live channels simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although MultiChoice said it was developing a “Home Base” feature to help mitigate against this, it instead relaxed the streaming limit earlier this year in a surprise announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharing a subscription between members of the same household can make a streaming package much more affordable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With each member able to watch their own content when they please, multiple breadwinners would be more likely to contribute to the subscription cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DStv’s own terms and conditions explicitly allow users to willingly share their login credentials with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, it is against DStv’s terms and conditions for customers to charge other users for access to their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MyBroadband counted the effective cost that each household member who used one stream or broadcast would need to contribute to a DStv subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result of the change implemented in April 2025, DStv’s month-to-month satellite packages now include at least four concurrent viewing environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to the satellite broadcast via a decoder, subscribers get two Internet-based streams on any smart device or browser in any location in the country, as well as a mobile-only stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DStv Premium also includes a Showmax subscription worth R99 per month. Each of these subscriptions can have up to two concurrent streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That means there is a total of six devices can watch a stream or broadcast on one month-to-month Premium satellite subscription at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With DStv Premium on satellite priced at R979 per month without an Access Fee, the effective price per viewing environment would be about R163, less than a Netflix Standard subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If one ignored the Showmax subscription and only considered the four DStv streams or broadcasts, the effective price would be R245 per DStv viewing environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other side, if the value of the Showmax subscription was deducted from the total price, the per-device DStv concurrent viewing price drops to R220.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A slightly more affordable option is the DStv Premium 24-month contract at R949 per month, which includes the Access Fee of R125 with an additional broadcasting viewing environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This option works out to a R190 effective cost per DStv viewing environment, ignoring the two Showmax streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For those without a decoder, the next most affordable DStv Premium plan is the streaming-only 12-month contract priced at R699 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This supports concurrent streaming on up to two devices of any type and a mobile device for a total of three viewing environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The option works out to R233 per stream when ignoring the Showmax streams or R140 when including them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If flexibility is a greater concern, then the month-to-month DStv Stream Premium package at R799 effectively costs R266 per DStv stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Including the two Showmax streams takes the cost down to R160 per stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The table below shows the effective cost per concurrent viewing environment for four DStv Premium packages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DStv Premium offers incredible value for money when considering the number of streams or broadcasts it allows per subscription after its recent changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":592867,"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":[79930,85,12747,88200],"class_list":["post-595181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-concurrent-streaming","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-premium","tag-dstv-stream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595181"}],"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=595181"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595216,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595181\/revisions\/595216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Type of package<\/th> DStv Premium satellite 24-month contract<\/th> DStv Premium satellite month-to-month<\/th> DStv Stream Premium 12-month contract<\/th> DStv Stream Premium month-to-month<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> DStv concurrent viewing environments (broadcast + streaming)<\/td> 5 total:
– Two on decoder (in same location)
– Two on any device via Internet
– One on mobile device via Internet<\/td>4 total:
– One on decoder (in same location)
– Two on any device via Internet
– One on mobile device via Internet<\/td>3 total:
– Two on any device via Internet
– One on mobile device via Internet<\/td>3 total:
– Two on any device via Internet
– One on mobile device via Internet<\/td><\/tr>Showmax concurrent viewing environments<\/td> – Two on any device via Internet or decoder<\/td> – Two on any device via Internet or decoder<\/td> – Two on any device via Internet or decoder<\/td> – Two on any device via Internet or decoder<\/td><\/tr> Total DStv and Showmax streams<\/td> 7<\/td> 6<\/td> 5<\/td> 5<\/td><\/tr> Total monthly cost <\/td> R949<\/td> R979<\/td> R699<\/td> R799<\/td><\/tr> Effective cost per DStv streaming environment (ignoring Showmax value of R99)<\/td> R190<\/td> R240<\/td> R233<\/td> R266<\/td><\/tr> Effective cost per DStv streaming environment (excluding Showmax value of R99)<\/td> R170<\/td> R220<\/td> R220<\/td> R233<\/td><\/tr> Effective cost per DStv and Showmax stream (minimum two devices using Showmax)<\/td> R136<\/strong><\/td> R163<\/strong><\/td> R140<\/strong><\/td> R160<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"