Will you pay for DoC's Digital TV rethink?

Doesn't the consumer always end up paying?
A better question is, who is getting what kick-backs for forcing this through?
 
Nod said:
Doesn't the consumer always end up paying?
A better question is, who is getting what kick-backs for forcing this through?
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thats easy to answer GOV/ANC are going to get them. so selective few get fat pockets ;)
while we all bend over and take it up the ass.

its similar thing with building these stuipd coal power plants. GOV/ANC own 25-35% of the company that are doing the boiler for the power plants. = GOV/ANC will get hundreds of million Rands for it in their pockets .
tisk tisk.

its all about the green backs ;)
just remember haliburton billing = cost + 10% - haha
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=544476389136766337#
 
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Can someone please buy Siphiwe another BMW so that he can start thinking in the right direction ?
 
A switch to DVB-T2 might make sense... Otherwise staying with DVB-T is probably the best option. Dvbt2 have a few nice improvements...
 
And this surprises anyone?

Someone in Guavamint bought a stake in a company that supplies ISDB equipment, and now wants the guavamint to buy from them instead.
 
Looking at the situation worldwide it makes sense for us to stick with DVB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDB-T#ISDB-T

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Digital_broadcast_standards.svg

South America seems to be big on ISDB, I wonder the change by our DoC has anything to do with the recent trade agreements and cosying up between SA and Brazil etc etc.

It will defnitelly cost the us a bit more in the long run, but if its a better technology then rather we put in the money now and get a better technology. The Japanese are very good developing this kind of technology.

However we are a developing country and we don't have the money to splash out so it might be better for them to rather stick with DVB and then try to phase in the ISDB later on, that would be better from a business and political point of view.
 
I wonder who in the DoC has a friend who has a friend who's company produces ISDB-T STBs...
 
i fore one will not buy the set top box in any form
 
Obviously the ANC didn't get enough 'baksheesh' (A gratuity or bribe, given to someone for a favor or to expedite some service, iow. money for doing f.ckall) during the testing phase. This is their way of saying, 'futi imali motherf.ckkers' (more money m...........)
 
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http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5499818
South African decoder manufacturers face the threat of being shut out of the country's move to convert its broadcasting system to a new digital platform, should the government opt for Japan's digital broadcasting standard.

About 20 multinational companies - including LG, Samsung, Panasonic and Sony - already manufacture receivers for countries using Japan's Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) standard. These companies could stiffly compete for the untapped African market. Currently, only Japan and Brazil use the ISDB-T standard.
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The National Association of Manufacturers in Electronic Components (Namec), which represents 46 black-owned electronic firms with the capacity to make decoders for the ditigal changeover, supports the Japanese standard.

Namec says it will advance such government objectives as stimulating local intellectual property production and transformation in the electronic sector. Keith Thabo, the chairman of Namec, said it had been approached by some industry players to lobby the government to support the Japanese standard.
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