{"id":439505,"date":"2020-10-09T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=439505"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:53:47","slug":"dstv-launches-new-movie-top-up-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/439505\/dstv-launches-new-movie-top-up-option\/","title":{"rendered":"DStv launches new movie &#8216;top-up&#8217; option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DStv has launched its new &#8216;add movies&#8217; feature, allowing subscribers to &#8216;top-up&#8217; their current movies offering.<\/p>\n<p>Add Movies allows Compact Plus, Compact, Family and Access customers to sign up for DStv\u2019s dedicated movie channels previously only available to Premium subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers who opt into this offering will enjoy hundreds of extra movies available on M-Net Movies 1, M-Net Movies 2 and fliekNet for an additional R99 per month, DStv said.<\/p>\n<p>Yolisa Phahle, chief executive of General Entertainment &amp; Connected Video at MultiChoice Group says Add Movies was developed in response to customers\u2019 appetite and interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It remains our priority to give customers both choice and value. Add Movies firmly delivers on both scores, with a wide variety of quality movie content at a compelling price,&#8221; said Phahle.<\/p>\n<p>DStv says it has reported an increase in audience figures during the lockdown period and the availability of both international and local content is a major deciding factor in users viewing habits.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, subscribers spent an average of five hours a day watching television and M-Net was one of the most popular channels with binging content for the entire family.<\/p>\n<p>The first month\u2019s line-up includes movies such as Terminator Dark Fate (2019), Rambo Last Blood (2019), Playing with Fire (2019) and Fiela se Kind (2019).<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers will have access to a variety of movies from the following channels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>M-Net Movies 1 (DStv Channel 104) delivers family-friendly animation, comedy, romance and award-winning drama;<\/li>\n<li>M-Net Movies 2 (DStv Channel 106) delivers the latest adrenaline-packed action, sci-fi, fantasy and thrillers;<\/li>\n<li>The popular holiday pop-up channel, fliekNET (DStv Channel 149), has now become a permanent fixture, showcasing locally produced blockbuster movies, classic favourites and a variety of Afrikaans film formats. The channel will also feature new straight-to kykNET films produced by South African filmmakers as part of the continuous investment in the local film and television industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Add Movies is available for existing subscribers to add to their packages, or on sign-up for new subscribers in South Africa, DStv said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/436507\/netflix-targets-mobile-content-to-strengthen-africa-grip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netflix targets mobile content to strengthen Africa grip<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DStv has launched its new &#8216;add movies&#8217; feature, allowing subscribers to &#8216;top-up&#8217; their current movies offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":136627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[78,26],"class_list":["post-439505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-dstv","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439517,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439505\/revisions\/439517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}