{"id":76078,"date":"2014-12-15T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=76078"},"modified":"2014-12-15T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T08:57:39","slug":"times-media-takes-vidi-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/76078\/times-media-takes-vidi-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Media takes Vidi mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Vidi, which claims to be\u00a0<\/span>South Africa&#8217;s first video-on-demand service, says subscribers can now watch its content on\u00a0any device including tablets and smartphones, and without an app.<\/p>\n<p>Times Media Group launched the subscription video service at a price of R149 per month, in September.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers also have the option to instantly rent the latest releases just off the circuit individually for R27, along with a selection of &#8216;premier&#8217;\u00a0titles starting at\u00a0R15.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Viewers don\u2019t require a dish or a decoder and they can cancel their subscription anytime as there are no contracts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">TMG noted that\u00a0if subscribers prefer using an app, that option is available through Android and IOS as part of the second phase of Vidi\u2019s roll-out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now available across multiple devices, viewers can stream content on PC, Mac, Laptop, Apple and Android Tablets and Smartphones. You can access Vidi through your browser on any device or you can download Android or IOS apps.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;You can also connect your device to your television via a HDMI cable for immediate big screen entertainment,&#8221; it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on VOD in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Vidi promises local streaming content\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/68128\/vidi-promises-local-streaming-content\/\"><strong>Vidi promises local streaming content<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Altech launches video-on-demand services\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/68905\/altech-launches-video-on-demand-services\/\"><strong>Altech launches video-on-demand services<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN video-on-demand launch update\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/74452\/mtn-video-on-demand-launch-update\/\"><strong>MTN video-on-demand launch update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vidi subscribers can now watch its content on any device including tablets and smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26,3741,8686],"class_list":["post-76078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-times-media-group","tag-vidi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76078","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=76078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76080,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76078\/revisions\/76080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}