Sentech launches its free streaming service — over ten years after its announcement

[Daniel Puchert]

South Africa launches free streaming service

Sentech has announced the launch of Freevision Play, an over-the-top (OTT) video streaming platform designed to provide South African residents free access to various local TV and radio channels.

The state-owned signal distributor first announced its plans for South Africans to stream television content online over ten years ago, in April 2013.

 

[DapperDanMan]

Those years were overly tense/intense indeed!

 

[username and 23 others]

Now:
- Shutdown the SABC
- Write-off all TVlic 'debt'
- (migrate all SABC viewers to this service)
- ???
- Feed

 

[UB40]

Now:
- Shutdown the SABC
- Write-off all TVlic 'debt'
- (migrate all SABC viewers to this service)
- ???
- Feed

 

[lkswan747]

Eish, I better download the app, actually, I think not!

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

one step forward 10 steps back.

 

[ProfA]

Free is too expensive. I would need to paid to watch this crap.

 

[Tinuva]

What is more hilarious, is this free thing at least streams the presidential inauguration at 1080p, thats better than dstv streaming at 720p. Unfortunately, the rest is at 576p so even the useless content is at terribad quality

 

[Swa]

Do they have the old Tekkies episodes?

 

[Gaz{M}]

Gauteng TV is just live CCTV of crimes being committed.

 

[JimM]

What a waste of time!

They would be better to stream the old Test Card F - Haemorrhoids are more fun than this app!!

I'm uninstalling before I've bothered to run it.

 

[dualmeister]

Does it have 7de Laan?

 

[bixt]

With that excellent banquet of channels I can now save money and cancel Netflix.

 

[supersunbird]

At first I thought someone had necroed an old Sentech MyWireless article

 

[DapperDanMan]

At first I thought someone had necroed an old Sentech MyWireless article

Just wait another day or so.

(iBurst was brought back to the front page this week!)

 

[rvZA]

The masses look forward to spending their grant payments on this.

 

[Petec]

Is Sentech still a thing?

 

[rvZA]

Is Sentech still a thing?

With DSTV and SABC dying, it may well be the ONLY thing real soon in SA.

 

[Petec]

With DSTV and SABC dying, it may well be the ONLY thing real soon in SA.

Yoh!

 

[Jodes]

What rules qualify 'quality content'?