First Local Television Drama On Broadband

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Date: 24 Nov 2005
Time: 8:30:00 PM
In a first for South Africa, M-Net’s popular local drama Known Gods is now available for download or streaming via broadband on the Internet. Fans who miss their weekly Thursday night Known Gods fix will be able to catch up at lunchtime (13:00) every Friday, and those who have not yet seen the winelands murder mystery series can download every episode and watch the entire series at their leisure.

The service is available for free to MWEB or Tiscali subscribers, via www.mweb.com.

“M-Net has been offering local productions like Carte Blanche and Egoli via broadband to expatriate South Africans for some time at subscription service KuduClub.com, “ says M-Net CEO Glen Marques. “As broadband starts to roll out in South Africa, we plan to do the same locally.”

“M-Net has always been a leader when it comes to utilising new technologies, and we’re proud to be the first operator in South Africa to offer premium television content on the Internet so soon after the show has been broadcast,” says Marques.

Kim Reid, CEO of MWEB says this is a big step in delivering M-Net content on new platforms. “We are very excited about collaborating with M-Net and plan to provide our customers with more broadband content offerings in future,” he says.

I can't find any mention of this on the Mweb site, but if things like Carte Blanche and news items were available, in the future, I for one would use some of my precious bandwidth on it occasionally.

Yay!!!

Something else I can't use because of Telkom. Awesome.

hmmm...thanks for the link. Amazingly, I am downloading the show right now from the UK. I guess I must be an mweb customer, rofl

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P.S. just cancelled the download, the quality is horrible. Part 1 of episode 1 is 14 minutes in length and only 9mb~. Works out to 40mb an hour...ugh! Unless you like videos the size of a postage stamp it is totally unwatchable.

Overseas web users don't have to be Mweb subscribers for certain content...



Expected the quality to suck. Haven't even tried downloading it... They obviously are aiming this for lowband users...

That is South Africa for ya! THANKS TELKOM AND OUR USELESS DoC!!!! Friggin broadband with caps so low you cannot download decent quality stuff and when they do make it available locally it is so tiny it isn't worth it!

Your 192k accounts should qualify to stream this content, and suddenly everybody will believe 192k is broadband because, hey, they are streaming movies over the internet, so it must be broadband.

also, looks like if you are on the mnetondemand page, and type in a valid url for a kuduclub file the referrer shows as mnetondemand, and I guess if the file name is valid the download will start. Be interesting to try. One of those "guess the url to a file and win a prize" errors.

Whats the best Telkom sponsored this whole event. With Nov1 pricing this sort of thing will be a goldmine for them.

don't show/tell mweb 1GB users about it.. cause then they gonna get capped anyways content from your own isp shouldn't be chargable wrt bandwidth usage cause then whats the point of going to that particular isp as a vans ? i mean if it costs the same wrt bandwidth may aswell go to another isp and get international content if local is unaccessable for other isp's.
basically if you have to pay for the service wrt to bandwidth, and they charge a high member fee claiming these special services for members then basically its like getting charged double(ok not double but you see the point i hope)

Is the a program that one can use with win xp to limit bandwidth use per day? IPCop is linux thing

That show shouldnt even be on mnet let alone wasting bandwidth to download it!

(Yawn) How wonderful! It will rank with Desperate Housewives as things to waste bandwidth with in this internet-benighted country.