The ConCourt's digital migration dilemma explained

[Hanno Labuschagne]

The ConCourt's digital migration dilemma explained

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has decided to strike down the government’s plans to end old-style analogue television broadcasting at the end of June.

The decision upholds the right to information, which poor South Africans would have been denied as government has been slow to roll out the devices they need to access the new digital signal.

[The Conversation]

 

[markings]

Why don't we just let the courts run this country? For one this would eliminate so many delays.

 

[grok]

Vehicle licensing thing all over again, make da rules but can't provide the infrastructure.

 

[system32]

Court’s no-win dilemma — Delay cheaper data or cut off TV signals to South Africa’s poorest​

Who watches SABC anyway?
"Please save us from SABC rubbish" say poorest

 

[borro]

Least of our problems

 

[Swa]

This is bull. Nobody is registering for the devices because nobody is seeing the message. Nobody is seeing the message because nobody is receiving the signal. For once the court has erred and etv is just being unnecessarily difficult.

 

[noxibox]

Who watches SABC anyway?

Probably the majority.

 

[Utterly Confused]

Yip! the authorities banned digital tuners in new flat screen TV's instead of making it mandatory, now it's turned around and bite them in the bum.

 

[noxibox]

Yip! the authorities banned digital tuners in new flat screen TV's instead of making it mandatory, now it's turned around and bite them in the bum.

Which authorities? When did the ban go into effect? Why did manufacturers ignore the ban and continue including digital tuners? Not that it would be relevant to the population the court case was about.

 

[system32]

Probably the majority.

Do the majority pay a TV License?

 

[Utterly Confused]

Which authorities? When did the ban go into effect? Why did manufacturers ignore the ban and continue including digital tuners? Not that it would be relevant to the population the court case was about.

I am in the TV installation business, almost all TV's sold only had analogue tuners active. I've reactivated many digital TV tuners in via the service menu that were deliberately switched off. I knew of a company (forget the name) that were selling flat screen TV's with active TV tuners. This company was sued so much that they had to close the company.

 

[emperornemesis]

Everyone is constantly going on about "the poor South Africans" this and that. For one, the poor South Africans pay less tax than the middle class, yet extract more value from government than the middle class. The poor get to save on school fees, by not having to pay any, and getting the schools to feeds the innumerable children. The poor rarely pays rates and taxes even though they are the biggest consumers of electricity in SA. The poor, even though not paying for services, regularly protest the lack thereof. And then, let us not forget that the poor, also being poor of intelligence, are what keeps the anc in power.

 

[Utterly Confused]

Everyone is constantly going on about "the poor South Africans" this and that. For one, the poor South Africans pay less tax than the middle class, yet extract more value from government than the middle class. The poor get to save on school fees, by not having to pay any, and getting the schools to feeds the innumerable children. The poor rarely pays rates and taxes even though they are the biggest consumers of electricity in SA. The poor, even though not paying for services, regularly protest the lack thereof. And then, let us not forget that the poor, also being poor of intelligence, are what keeps the anc in power.

So what you are saying is that us middle class is fscking screwed.

 

[emperornemesis]

So what you are saying is that us middle class is fscking screwed.

"****ing screwed" seems to be a understatement. KFC and free T-shirts (short term motivation) seems to be a far better motivation to vote anc and a excellent way to make people forget that those they are voting for are criminals.

 

[Utterly Confused]

"****ing screwed" seems to be a understatement. KFC and free T-shirts (short term motivation) seems to be a far better motivation to vote anc and a excellent way to make people forget that those they are voting for are criminals.

True.

 

[Marcan]

I am in the TV installation business, almost all TV's sold only had analogue tuners active. I've reactivated many digital TV tuners in via the service menu that were deliberately switched off. I knew of a company (forget the name) that were selling flat screen TV's with active TV tuners. This company was sued so much that they had to close the company.

So what you are saying, that several manufactures of newer TVs had built in DVB-T2 tuners, but we're deliberately switched off. Why ?
Why did "authorities" ban these tuners to be active ?
Can you reset my 2016 40' Hisense Full HD to have an active digital tuner ? To modern standards a very modest, simple TV.

 

[borro]

"****ing screwed" seems to be a understatement. KFC and free T-shirts (short term motivation) seems to be a far better motivation to vote anc and a excellent way to make people forget that those they are voting for are criminals.

It’s going to get worse before it gets worse.