DA calls for public hearing on digital broadcasting migration

Unlikely to happen; not enough palms have been crossed and, in event, there could well be a few skeletons in the cupboard
 
Digital migration has happened, the people that care enough use Netflix, Showmax and other streaming services. Or they use DSTV which has been digital for nigh on 10 years now, it's only the government broadcaster that cannot pull it's own finger out it's own read-end.
 
Fire Azwihangwisi Faith Muthambi.
She's the problem with SABC and Digital Migration.
 
i had a t2 box now for almost a year(straight from taiwan). works well but yesterday sabc 1 2 3 and all the radio stations disapeared, wondering what they stuffed up now.
 
Lupus said:
Digital migration has happened, the people that care enough use Netflix, Showmax and other streaming services. Or they use DSTV which has been digital for nigh on 10 years now, it's only the government broadcaster that cannot pull it's own finger out it's own read-end.
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Dstv started its digital services in 1995 or 1996. Sentech/SABC replaced its analogue satellite services with the digital Vivid platform in 1998 or 1999. A mere 50,000 Vivid sat decoders using the DVB-S standard were sold in the 15 years up to july 2013, when it was replaced with the Freevision DVB-S2 standard. Freevision Decoders are nowhere available AFAIK.
So the contention in the first Digital Migration public relation campaign in 2008, labeled the "Digital Dzonga", with page size newspaper adverts, that we were going digital and could enjoy a better picture and sound quality and more channels, was of course false. We went digital already in the previous century.
The time for DTT has actually come and gone. It easily can be scrapped altogether. We can use Dstv, Starsat or OVHD FTA sat, old fashioned unidirectional TV or get a decent internet connection and stream and download content.
 
Marcan said:
Dstv started its digital services in 1995 or 1996. Sentech/SABC replaced its analogue satellite services with the digital Vivid platform in 1998 or 1999. A mere 50,000 Vivid sat decoders using the DVB-S standard were sold in the 15 years up to july 2013, when it was replaced with the Freevision DVB-S2 standard. Freevision Decoders are nowhere available AFAIK.
So the contention in the first Digital Migration public relation campaign in 2008, labeled the "Digital Dzonga", with page size newspaper adverts, that we were going digital and could enjoy a better picture and sound quality and more channels, was of course false. We went digital already in the previous century.
The time for DTT has actually come and gone. It easily can be scrapped altogether. We can use Dstv, Starsat or OVHD FTA sat, old fashioned unidirectional TV or get a decent internet connection and stream and download content.
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keeping in mind that there is actually a difference between DVB-h DVB-S and DVB-T2/T1
 
Tns said:
keeping in mind that there is actually a difference between DVB-h DVB-S and DVB-T2/T1
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I am fully aware of that, one is for handheld devices, one is for satellite transmission and reception with a dish, one is for terrestrial transmission with a traditional UHF aerial.
 
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