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Digital TV switch over delayed
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Messugga
Honorary Master
Like we didn't see this coming. Their aspirations were overly-ambitious at best, trying to do the switch in two years less than the UK with their relatively vast resources.
Didn't they say that the main reason for them having to switch over so quickly was because it simply wasn't affordable to run both analogue and digital broadcasts in the long term? I wonder how this will impact the already dwindling coffers of the SABC? Not that said coffers aren't dwindling for good reasons - see "Rubbish programming".
Didn't they say that the main reason for them having to switch over so quickly was because it simply wasn't affordable to run both analogue and digital broadcasts in the long term? I wonder how this will impact the already dwindling coffers of the SABC? Not that said coffers aren't dwindling for good reasons - see "Rubbish programming".
Kosmik
Honorary Master
/o\ what a shocker! :twisted:
Shake&Bake
Party Liaison
I know of one corporation who won't be throwing any hissy fits about this: The SABC.
At least now they're assured of raping the public for another few years with license costs.
Check how those are going to soar!
At least now they're assured of raping the public for another few years with license costs.
Check how those are going to soar!
So if they introduced the set-top boxes later on, it could have been done sooner?
Why don't they use standard receivers? It will cost much less, and they can add their interactive services later on as it become feasible.
Why don't they use standard receivers? It will cost much less, and they can add their interactive services later on as it become feasible.
Tjoker
Expert Member
"imminent"
Times Magazine word of the decade!!!
Times Magazine word of the decade!!!
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Yay! Don't we love ICASA! :MAD: These guys make a glacier look like a raging torrential rapid! The sun might burn out before ICASA actually finishes anything properly on time.
Ou grote
Honorary Master
Nope in 2020 they'll form a committee to do a 5 year feasability study to establish the viability thereof.
Typical: make announcements > looks good for world cup > make more announcements > looks even better > the story ends there...
When will they realise that you need to follow-up words with action...why do people vote for these fools I wonder.
When will they realise that you need to follow-up words with action...why do people vote for these fools I wonder.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
um, you mean "sieze" this opportunity .... and Satellite TV is already digitial... it is by nature digital. There is no such thing as analog satellite TV.
tjunyat
Senior Member
Once again, I am Jack's complete and utter lack of surprise.
Valis
Expert Member
Uh, wrong. Satellite TV started out as analog. Cell phones as well. When I was working at Hartebeeshoek satellite station in the 80s all of the connections, voice and video, were analog. Digital transmissions are a fairly recent development. The only reason we started out with DSTV and GSM is because this country took so long to start these services that the digital technology had already been developed by the time we got around to it.
Messugga
Honorary Master
How do you transmit an analogue signal from a satellite? Wouldn't atmospheric events screw up the signal enough for it to be useless? Oh, and this is an honest question. Please feel free to get as technical as you'd like in your explanation as I'm not afraid of reading up on terminology I don't understand.