IdlePhaedrus
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Not so sure I agree. Digital switch-over in the UK is still a mess, and was a mess when I was last there in 2004:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_switchover_dates_in_the_United_Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_terrestrial_television_in_the_United_Kingdom
I don't see ZA getting it right in a shorter period over a larger land mass especially with the ANC looking after it.
For ZA Satellite is a far more intelligent approach. You can currently get a dish and decoder (for DSTV and TopTV) for less than the proposed subsidised price of a terrestrial signal decoder. Not going to find the link now but that price is here on the forums somewhere.
If Sentech didn't scramble the SABC1, SABC2, SABC3 and e.TV channels on PAS7/10 you could receive them for free without paying DSTV R20 a month for the privilege.
In my humble opinion they should be free to air on satellite already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_switchover_dates_in_the_United_Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_terrestrial_television_in_the_United_Kingdom
I don't see ZA getting it right in a shorter period over a larger land mass especially with the ANC looking after it.
For ZA Satellite is a far more intelligent approach. You can currently get a dish and decoder (for DSTV and TopTV) for less than the proposed subsidised price of a terrestrial signal decoder. Not going to find the link now but that price is here on the forums somewhere.
If Sentech didn't scramble the SABC1, SABC2, SABC3 and e.TV channels on PAS7/10 you could receive them for free without paying DSTV R20 a month for the privilege.
In my humble opinion they should be free to air on satellite already.