Digital TV switch over delay

Sentech built 40% of DVB-T structure throughout the country! Hallo government people, don´t get rid of this high investment already made, just to please brazilan isdb-t lobby. Why benefit brazilian exports if with DVB-T we can benefit South African companies! Wake up! Say no to corruption, and YES to DVB-T/DVB-T2!!!
 
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5499818
South African decoder manufacturers face the threat of being shut out of the country's move to convert its broadcasting system to a new digital platform, should the government opt for Japan's digital broadcasting standard.

About 20 multinational companies - including LG, Samsung, Panasonic and Sony - already manufacture receivers for countries using Japan's Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) standard. These companies could stiffly compete for the untapped African market. Currently, only Japan and Brazil use the ISDB-T standard.
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The National Association of Manufacturers in Electronic Components (Namec), which represents 46 black-owned electronic firms with the capacity to make decoders for the ditigal changeover, supports the Japanese standard.

Namec says it will advance such government objectives as stimulating local intellectual property production and transformation in the electronic sector. Keith Thabo, the chairman of Namec, said it had been approached by some industry players to lobby the government to support the Japanese standard.
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