Digital TV - Is the DoC messing up?

The migration to digital, which will see South African broadcasters switch from an analogue to digital broadcast signal has been planned and tested since 2000.
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WTF! shows that anything that has the government department involved takes at least ten or more years. Try getting the LLU issue resolved. That will probably take another 10 odd years.
SA government FTL
 
Look, someone in the Department of Communication has been bought. Everyone involved in the development of the set-top boxes know it, it's just not possible to prove it (yet), so no public allegations have been made. It's a ridiculous situation that will cost the companies developing STBs lots of money, and probably cost quite a few people their jobs. The companies cannot just sit and wait for another 3 years without an income. Nyanda is the worst minister in the Cabinet. Why is it that DoC always gets the worst minister of the lot?
 
rbarryza said:
Look, someone in the Department of Communication has been bought. Everyone involved in the development of the set-top boxes know it, it's just not possible to prove it (yet), so no public allegations have been made. It's a ridiculous situation that will cost the companies developing STBs lots of money, and probably cost quite a few people their jobs. The companies cannot just sit and wait for another 3 years without an income. Nyanda is the worst minister in the Cabinet. Why is it that DoC always gets the worst minister of the lot?
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Unfortunately that is what happens when you appoint a career corrupt criminal as your minister of Communication. He obviously sees this as an opportunity to enhance personal wealth by striking a deal with some dodgy Japanese friends - and hence gets the backing of his other criminal cronies in the ANC.

But, a few less-fortunate ANC mates (read Cosatu) was obviously not cut into the deal - and hopefully makes enough noise to get rid of Simphiwe, the "grinning hyena" - think Lion King :D
 
they obviously can't control it so well so "they" need a bigger gravy train.
 
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Progress, once again, halted by incompetence, corruption and greed. Nice going DoC :(
 
From what I could gather, they (DoC) are looking at DBV- T2 which the later version of the Euro format. If they consider ISDB-T, then they would be wasting money or resources.
 
The extra digital channels (SABC Movies, SABC Sport, SABC Kids, ETV Entertainment etc.) all went off the air a couple of months ago. Now the main ETV channel has also disappeared! So I'm back to watching the cr@ppy analogue signal :( If they go and change the standard now all the money I spent on a digital DVB tuner is going to be wasted. Fsck the government!
 
NiTeD said:
From what I could gather, they (DoC) are looking at DBV- T2 which the later version of the Euro format. If they consider ISDB-T, then they would be wasting money or resources.
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Yes, I also like the DVB-T2 route. I would even be happy with DVB-T, provided they implement H.264 streams. And I hope they allocate a decent bitrate to each channel, rather than trying to squeeze in the maximum number of digital channels per old analogue channel.

Ah well. One can dream...
 
fvdbergh said:
Yes, I also like the DVB-T2 route. I would even be happy with DVB-T, provided they implement H.264 streams. And I hope they allocate a decent bitrate to each channel, rather than trying to squeeze in the maximum number of digital channels per old analogue channel.

Ah well. One can dream...
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The test transmission uses H.264 currently. IDK if that's going to change though. I must say the picture and sound quality is excellent! Crisp and clear with no dropped frames or artifacts. I would be more than happy if they stick to the DVB-T format.
 
DreamKing said:
I like that. :)

NO TV => NO SABC => No tv licence :D
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aaa but you wrong there you still own a device capable to receive a transmission, nevermind that aren't any to receive.
 
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