{"id":93315,"date":"2013-12-09T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=93315"},"modified":"2013-12-09T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T15:22:49","slug":"ster-kinekor-digital-tickets-in-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/93315-ster-kinekor-digital-tickets-in-testing.html","title":{"rendered":"Ster-Kinekor digital tickets in testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A spokesperson for Ster-Kinekor theatres has confirmed a recent report on Htxt Africa<\/a> that the cinema chain is testing electronic tickets.<\/p>\n

The Ster-Kinekor app for Apple\u2019s mobile operating system, iOS, was recently updated to support the unfortunately-named \u201cPassbook\u201d system on the platform.<\/p>\n

Apple introduced its Passbook application in iOS 6, promising users a central place to keep airline boarding passes, movie tickets, and gift cards.<\/p>\n

However, according to the Apple website, \u201cThe merchant must create a Passbook-enabled pass, barcode, or iOS app for the card, ticket, or service to work with Passbook.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t see the option to add a card, ticket, or other service to Passbook, \u201ccontact the merchant to verify they support Passbook passes,\u201d Apple advises.<\/p>\n

When asked for more details on its digital ticketing trial, Ster-Kinekor Theatres marketing executive Doug Place said that the new features in their app are still in a pilot\/beta stage.<\/p>\n

Place said that they don\u2019t want to reveal any more details for the moment as the final product may look very different to what is currently being trialled.<\/p>\n

More Ster-Kinekor, movie, and content news<\/h3>\n

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Ster-Kinekor relaunching Imax in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Faster movie releases in SA explained<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Samsung Video Hub for TVs in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

iTunes Movies now in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Paid-for international video streaming illegal in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SK Theatres is testing digital tickets in the iPhone Passbook app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":92091,"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":[16],"tags":[36,605,691,14223,1069],"class_list":["post-93315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-passbook","tag-ster-kinekor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93315"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}