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Digital TV delay

The final switch over date from analogue to digital broadcasting will be delayed by at least a few months, Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda said on Tuesday.
 
From a letter someone sent me from someone who works there:

"have you noticed in the media the increasing number of reports on SA adopting the Japanese digital TV standard (ISDB-T). SA, being part of Region 1 adopted the DVB family standard for digital terrestial TV that is about to be launched. Millions have been spent on DTT Tx with the DVB standard capabilities, which is based on 8MHz channel bandwidth, whereas ISDB-T is 6MHz. I don't think I need to explain any more to you as this alone shows that we cannot now change from the DVB standard, as not only is ISDB less sophisticated than DVB, but it means that the entire spectrum plan has to be re-co-ordinated with all our neighbouring countries who have adopted the 8MHz channel spacing of DVB, which will take several years.

Amidst Sentech's woes it is planning on a fact finding tour to Brazil, Columbia and Japan. We are convinced that the following is behind this sinister plot: the Japanese have bribed the government that if they change to and adopt the ISDB standard, which means the set-top boxes will be imported from Japan and new Txs will come from ............"HITACHI", then Chancellor House will get a few million back-handers that will grow to billions for the party as has already happened with the power station deals. You may think I have lost my marbles, but this is about the only "rational" explanation because there is otherwise no compelling reason (technical or other) to adopt the Japanese digital TV standard, which is beyond all doubt inferior to the DVB standard, and what's more DVB standard decoders are cheaper than ISDB, because it has more market share and hence the chipsets are now cheaper.

What SA now needs to decide is to start its DTT transmissions on the DVB-T2 platform as this is even more superior than its predecessor (DVB-T) as it uses 256QAM modulation which permits over 30MB bitrate and this in turn allows several HDTV channels instead of only 2 as with DVB-T, which uses 64QAM. DVB-T2 is the most elite digital scheme on earth at the present time.

We can see this whole crazy debacle being taken to the Constitutional Court by the multimedia industry of SA as it affects EVERYTING related to TV, including the broadcasters. The drive to adopt another standard is being driven from parliament!!!!!!!!!
 
Grouter said:
From a letter someone sent me from someone who works there:

"have you noticed in the media the increasing number of reports on SA adopting the Japanese digital TV standard (ISDB-T). SA, being part of Region 1 adopted the DVB family standard for digital terrestial TV that is about to be launched. Millions have been spent on DTT Tx with the DVB standard capabilities, which is based on 8MHz channel bandwidth, whereas ISDB-T is 6MHz. I don't think I need to explain any more to you as this alone shows that we cannot now change from the DVB standard, as not only is ISDB less sophisticated than DVB, but it means that the entire spectrum plan has to be re-co-ordinated with all our neighbouring countries who have adopted the 8MHz channel spacing of DVB, which will take several years.

Amidst Sentech's woes it is planning on a fact finding tour to Brazil, Columbia and Japan. We are convinced that the following is behind this sinister plot: the Japanese have bribed the government that if they change to and adopt the ISDB standard, which means the set-top boxes will be imported from Japan and new Txs will come from ............"HITACHI", then Chancellor House will get a few million back-handers that will grow to billions for the party as has already happened with the power station deals. You may think I have lost my marbles, but this is about the only "rational" explanation because there is otherwise no compelling reason (technical or other) to adopt the Japanese digital TV standard, which is beyond all doubt inferior to the DVB standard, and what's more DVB standard decoders are cheaper than ISDB, because it has more market share and hence the chipsets are now cheaper.

What SA now needs to decide is to start its DTT transmissions on the DVB-T2 platform as this is even more superior than its predecessor (DVB-T) as it uses 256QAM modulation which permits over 30MB bitrate and this in turn allows several HDTV channels instead of only 2 as with DVB-T, which uses 64QAM. DVB-T2 is the most elite digital scheme on earth at the present time.

We can see this whole crazy debacle being taken to the Constitutional Court by the multimedia industry of SA as it affects EVERYTING related to TV, including the broadcasters. The drive to adopt another standard is being driven from parliament!!!!!!!!!
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Aren't we technically Region 2? Or is this different from DVD zone type regions? I would think digital distribution would use the same standard region controls.
 
Grouter said:
From a letter someone sent me from someone who works there:

"have you noticed in the media the increasing number of reports on SA adopting the Japanese digital TV standard (ISDB-T). SA, being part of Region 1 adopted the DVB family standard for digital terrestial TV that is about to be launched. Millions have been spent on DTT Tx with the DVB standard capabilities, which is based on 8MHz channel bandwidth, whereas ISDB-T is 6MHz. I don't think I need to explain any more to you as this alone shows that we cannot now change from the DVB standard, as not only is ISDB less sophisticated than DVB, but it means that the entire spectrum plan has to be re-co-ordinated with all our neighbouring countries who have adopted the 8MHz channel spacing of DVB, which will take several years.

Amidst Sentech's woes it is planning on a fact finding tour to Brazil, Columbia and Japan. We are convinced that the following is behind this sinister plot: the Japanese have bribed the government that if they change to and adopt the ISDB standard, which means the set-top boxes will be imported from Japan and new Txs will come from ............"HITACHI", then Chancellor House will get a few million back-handers that will grow to billions for the party as has already happened with the power station deals. You may think I have lost my marbles, but this is about the only "rational" explanation because there is otherwise no compelling reason (technical or other) to adopt the Japanese digital TV standard, which is beyond all doubt inferior to the DVB standard, and what's more DVB standard decoders are cheaper than ISDB, because it has more market share and hence the chipsets are now cheaper.

What SA now needs to decide is to start its DTT transmissions on the DVB-T2 platform as this is even more superior than its predecessor (DVB-T) as it uses 256QAM modulation which permits over 30MB bitrate and this in turn allows several HDTV channels instead of only 2 as with DVB-T, which uses 64QAM. DVB-T2 is the most elite digital scheme on earth at the present time.

We can see this whole crazy debacle being taken to the Constitutional Court by the multimedia industry of SA as it affects EVERYTING related to TV, including the broadcasters. The drive to adopt another standard is being driven from parliament!!!!!!!!!
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Another day in corrupt ZAR ! Please someone, forward this to the DA !
 
Kosmik said:
Aren't we technically Region 2? Or is this different from DVD zone type regions? I would think digital distribution would use the same standard region controls.
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No idea. As I say, I'm just forwarding something that was sent to me. I have no idea who the author was.
 
Duke Nukem Forever ring any bells? By the time they decide on the hardware/delivery system to be used ill be dead and be spending my time drinking and fornicating with nice woman according to my believe system.:D
 
The longer Simpiwe's department waits, the drier my TV License gets and the more it will hurt when I shove it up their *****
 
Look how stupid this government will be if they adopt ISDB-T:
A TV bought in Japan will not work in Brazil because Brazil´s ISDB-T has mpeg4 and Japan´s ISDB-T has mpeg2.
A TV bought in Brazil and Japan will not work in South Africa because Brazil and Japan´s chanell band in 6mhrz and South Africa is 8mhrz.
A TV bought in South Africa, for the same reasons above, wil not work in Brazil and Japan.
Wake up South Africa: DVB-T2 is the way to go!!!
 
kaaskop said:
Duke Nukem Forever ring any bells? By the time they decide on the hardware/delivery system to be used ill be dead and be spending my time drinking and fornicating with nice woman according to my believe system.:D
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why not just start that now if it's what you want? :confused:
 
Well, they've stopped transmitting the extra digital channels altogether. Used to get 10 channels, now it's just the usual 1,2,3 and ETV. This is a total fsck-up as usual :(
 
Its so funny, another task team, my gosh, do they know to do any other than setup a freakin task team...FFS!!
 
Whatever the true reason for wanting to change the already partially implemented DTT standard may be, it makes little sense. We're a developing country that has already spent valuable resources on adoption of the DVB-T standard which should fulfill our countries projected needs now & for some time in the future. Technology is advancing so quickly, any standard we adopt will be succeeded by a newer & 'better' technology by the time it is fully implemented.
 
Here in Australia DVB-T works really really well, it is strange to see authorities in south africa being so easily influenced by latin american lobbists. But if South Africa really wants more band eficiency, it will be much more inteligent to upgrade to DVB-T2!!!!! DVB-T2 is United Kingdom´s newest standard and prices of decoders and transmiters are already lower than the brazilan ISDB-T standard!!!! With DVB-T2, South Africa wouldn´t harm DVB-T countries like NAMIBIA, KENYA, UGANDA, NEW ZEALAND.....and many other 8 mhrz countries!
 
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