{"id":27919,"date":"2011-06-30T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=27919"},"modified":"2011-06-30T23:02:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:02:13","slug":"southtel-vodtv-here-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/27919-southtel-vodtv-here-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"SouthTel VOD:TV here soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice recently announced that they are set to launch their new <a title=\"DStv BoxOffice\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/27719-dstv-boxoffice-video-on-demand-here-soon.html\">DStv BoxOffice video-on-demand offering<\/a> in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>DStv BoxOffice will be a PVR based offering where movies will be downloaded to the subscriber\u2019s device using satellite bandwidth.\u00a0 These movies will then be available for a fee.<\/p>\n<p>Another company, SouthTel, is also poised to launch in South Africa a push video-on-demand service called \u201cSouthTel Push VOD:TV\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>SouthTel promises to bring local consumers \u201ca thousand titles through our personal video recorder (PVR), within a few weeks\/months after release from major Hollywood studios and as a hosted solution to mobile operators\u201d. A large portion of the content will be available in HD.<\/p>\n<p>SouthTel told MyBroadband that they have ongoing service trials, with plans to launch a commercial service in a month or two.<\/p>\n<p>Well known Television Blogger Thinus Ferreira yesterday reported that SouthTel will launch a trial version of its VOD:TV in July, with a planned commercial launch in September.<\/p>\n<p>SouthTel explained that users will need a decoder (PVR) and a satellite dish to receive content, which will then be accessible to subscribers at a fee.<\/p>\n<p>The content will be pushed to the subscribers\u2019 PVR hard drive\u2019 and will be ciphered on the disk drive and cannot be viewed until purchased.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27923\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-27923\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/27919-southtel-vodtv-here-soon.html\/attachment\/southtel-vod-interface\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27923\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27923\" title=\"SouthTel-VoD-Interface\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SouthTel-VoD-Interface.jpg\" alt=\"SouthTel VoD:TV Interface\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SouthTel-VoD-Interface.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SouthTel-VoD-Interface-100x55.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SouthTel-VoD-Interface-185x103.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SouthTel VoD:TV Interface<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A notification system and interactive menus let the end-user navigate through the stored content.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing for the new SouthTel VOD:TV service has not been finalized yet, but the company said that it is likely that there will be various packages at very competitive rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SouthTel is currently trialing its planned video-on-demand (VOD) service, with a commercial launch expected soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,1645,35,475,1741],"class_list":["post-27919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-boxoffice","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-southtel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27953,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27919\/revisions\/27953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}