{"id":32926,"date":"2011-09-01T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T09:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=32926"},"modified":"2011-09-01T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T09:06:50","slug":"southtel-push-vodtv-launch-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/32926-southtel-push-vodtv-launch-delayed.html","title":{"rendered":"SouthTel Push VOD:TV launch delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

SouthTel<\/a> have pushed back the launch of its video on-demand (VOD) service, which was originally slated for commercial availability<\/a> during September 2011.<\/p>\n

Earlier in 2011, SouthTel announced its \u201cPush VOD:TV\u201d product, saying that it would be trialled during August and launched in September 2011, around two months after MultiChoice<\/a> launched its on-demand service, called DStv BoxOffice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to SouthTel\u2019s website, Push VOD:TV will offer new release movies, classics, hit TV series, personalised music play-list, and educational programmes in mostly high definition (HD) format.<\/p>\n

This will be through their personal video recorder (PVR) or as a hosted solution to mobile providers. SouthTel has entered into an agreement with MTN<\/a> to trial video on-demand services nationally.<\/p>\n

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SouthTel VoD:TV Interface<\/p><\/div>\n

Users will be able to place orders via the web, SMS, or iPhone, SouthTel said, listing a number of payment options: monthly subscription, online transaction directly from an Internet-connected PVR, or an offline transaction via SMS or mobile Internet. Billing methods will include mechanisms such as credit card, PayPal, or a monthy bill sent to subscribers.<\/p>\n

The service will function similarly to DStv BoxOffice, which sends content to a PVR in spare capacity overnight, with old content being removed weekly to make space for newer programmes.<\/p>\n

Oscar Dube<\/a>, CEO of SouthTel, said that they have delayed the launch of Push VOD:TV until Q4 (October-December 2011).<\/p>\n

He said that they \u201cjust want to make sure our product is functioning 100%\u201d before making it commercially available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pay TV hopeful SouthTel has revealed that it will be delaying the launch of its Push VOD:TV product<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":27921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[35,4318,4316,1741,261,4314],"class_list":["post-32926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-headline","tag-oscar-dube","tag-push-vodtv","tag-southtel","tag-video-on-demand","tag-vodtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32926"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32928,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32926\/revisions\/32928"}],"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=32926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}