{"id":108981,"date":"2016-10-23T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108981"},"modified":"2017-07-31T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T07:52:40","slug":"you-can-now-watch-dstv-on-your-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/108981-you-can-now-watch-dstv-on-your-consoles","title":{"rendered":"DStv ditches flash for HTML video standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice recently announced that its desktop streaming program would be moving away from being a flash-based service.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, subscribers can now watch their favourite movies and series using the DStv Now mobile application, and stream on the DStv Now website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Web standards have come a very long way and there is no more need for a separate plugin like Silverlight or Flash to play protected content,&#8221; said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We plan to use the native video player capabilities present in modern browsers rather than depend on plugins that are currently being phased out by the industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We asked MutiChoice if they plan to release a dedicated DStv app for consoles and\/or Windows 10 and they responded that while they\u00a0cannot disclose specific details, they regularly\u00a0review the platforms supported by DStv Now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*UPDATE:<\/strong> The article previously stated DStv Now could be streamed using the built-in browser of consoles. This is inaccurate and has been removed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/108883-heres-why-dstv-wont-decrease-its-south-african-prices.html\">Here\u2019s why DStv won\u2019t decrease its South African prices<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice spoke to MyGaming about DStv on consoles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":96451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3483,9152,9154],"class_list":["post-108981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-consoles","tag-dstv","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119459,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108981\/revisions\/119459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}