{"id":550367,"date":"2006-10-03T07:31:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T07:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550367-on-your-box-get-set.html"},"modified":"2006-10-03T07:31:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T07:31:03","slug":"on-your-box-get-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550367-on-your-box-get-set.html","title":{"rendered":"On your box, get set&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">In 2015, Sentech, the state-owned broadcasting signal distributor that carries channels for the SABC, e.tv and M-Net, will switch off its analogue television network. Satellite subscribers will, however, not be affected.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Sentech has already begun work on the migration to digital terrestrial television (DTT). The project, for which R205m has been allocated over the next three years, became necessary as a result of the high cost of maintaining the country&#8217;s ageing analogue TV network. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">DTT, because it makes more efficient use of scarce radio frequency spectrum, will also enable Icasa, the communications regulator, to issue more terrestrial TV licences to broadcasters. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=54780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Financial Mail <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans will have to buy digital set-top boxes within the next 10 years to continue receiving terrestrial television broadcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550367"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}