South Africa will switch to digital TV by 2021

[Jamie McKane]

South Africa will switch to digital TV by 2021

The Department of Communications has outlined its plan to implement its broadcasting digital migration (BDM) programme in South Africa.

In a presentation to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee, the department said it would begin distributing digital set-top boxes and fast-track the digital migration near the end of 2020.

 

[Sl8er]

South Africa will switch to digital TV by 2021 – Here is the plan

Wait...I've seen this episode before

(IBIWISI)

 

[ToxicBunny]

So not a decade behind schedule then....

 

[KleinBoontjie]

wat....

 

[We Love Bass]

The department also said that it needs to clear the decoder stock currently kept in the SA Post Office warehouse

Oooh I wonder how they are going to do that,Stay tuned for the next episode of Dragon Ball Z.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

BS
the ANC are not competent enough to do the transition

 

[Swa]

Deja moo

 

[quovadis]

Here we go again. Expect the lobbyists *cough* multichoice to start demanding no encryption etc.

 

[furpile]

Any news on what is going to happen to TV licenses? Will it now be tied to the set top box instead of a TV? Will normal TV's be able to receive the signal? I remember SA chose to use a standard nobody else is using, cannot remember all the details.

 

[lordnokon]

Wait what??? Is it April fools already??

 

[HartsockZA]

And the TV License group will still want their annual fee. yea Sod off

 

[yebocan]

think this hybrid says it best :

 

[Lupus]

So not a decade behind schedule then....

Almost 14 years late, they tried in 2007, than we know the dark ages started from 2008 and pretty much South Africa has stagnated since.

 

[RazedInBlack]

5 years behind schedule? Lol.

 

[Goosfrabba]

Think someone's sausage fingers hit the wrong number...pretty sure it's meant to be 2051

 

[Unreal]

South Africa will switch to digital TV by 2021 – Here is the plan

Wait...I've seen this episode before

(IBIWISI)

lol

 

[mercurial]

The only thing this government is good at is fkn things up monumentally.

 

[DreamKing]

Not 2020 June?

Oh ..... I am shocked.

 

[r00igev@@r]

The Bosasa bribes have dried up!

 

[ConfusedR]

So the ANC finally decided which cadres are going to get the kickbacks for this one?