Cape Town TV and Right2Know protest analogue TV switch-off

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Protest wants to delay analogue TV switch-off in South Africa

Several civil society organisations and a community television channel are campaigning against the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies' plan to switch off all analogue TV signals in South Africa by the end of March 2022.

The group has alleged that the switch-off would leave 14 million people without access to free-to-air TV.
 
Protest wants to delay analogue TV switch-off in South Africa

Several civil society organisations and a community television channel are campaigning against the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies' plan to switch off all analogue TV signals in South Africa by the end of March 2022.

The group has alleged that the switch-off would leave 14 million people without access to free-to-air TV.
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And yet digital tuners were banned in flat screen TV's. The mind boggles. There are still flat screen TV's being soled today not incorporating DTV tuners.
 
“Over 100 organisations are expected to attend the People’s Assembly to #SaveFreeTV at 10:00 on Thursday in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, as well as online,” it said in a statement.
"People's Assembly" you say, it's more like a "Village Idiots United" convention.
 
"millions of mostly marginalised people would lose access to vital news, information, and education unless action were taken." he meant to say, millions of people who could not be bothered to que for a free decoder, but who all qued for sassa payments. There is no medicine for stupid!
 
And yet digital tuners were banned in flat screen TV's. The mind boggles. There are still flat screen TV's being soled today not incorporating DTV tuners.
I don't think so. Got a 50" 4K in May 2020 and it has a digital tuner. Not that I'd use it as television in SA, whether terrestrial or satellite, is of extremely poor quality with the likes of sabc and soweto tv doing the rounds. I can feel my eyes bleeding just thinking of that ****. .
 
I don't think so. Got a 50" 4K in May 2020 and it has a digital tuner. Not that I'd use it as television in SA, whether terrestrial or satellite, is of extremely poor quality with the likes of sabc and soweto tv doing the rounds. I can feel my eyes bleeding just thinking of that ****. .
They weren't banned, don't know where they came up with that. Though cheaper units will still have analogue tuners, generally seen those odd named ones still have it.
 
And yet digital tuners were banned in flat screen TV's. The mind boggles. There are still flat screen TV's being soled today not incorporating DTV tuners.
They weren't banned, go get any major brand TV and it'll have a digital tuner, the cheaper brands won't though like your Sansuis, Itels and such
 
Interesting analysis of the broad consequences of an abrupt TV signal cutoff:
 
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There are insufficient boxes around:
The situation is further complicated by a global chip shortage due to the Covid-19 pandemic — directly affecting set-top box and decoder manufacturing. Major retail franchises such as Game and Makro currently have no DTT set-top boxes for sale. This means the devices are not available to the millions more analogue television viewers who do not qualify for subsidised set-top boxes from the South African Post Office.
 
There are insufficient boxes around:

Honestly, people's lives are not going to end if they don't get their latest episode of government sponsored garbage. There is a chicken and egg scenario going on. If the government keeps the analogue signal on, people won't switch over to it.
When people want to switch over, there will be a market for the boxes and the situation will resolve itself.
 
Every township I drive past has got a satellite dish on almost every shack you see. So I don't know who is complaining because from what I can see almost everyone everywhere is either getting their content from streaming media if you're middle class, or satellite services if you're poor and live in a township.
 
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