South Africa Digital TV News

MHEG-5 South African Profile now available
Sep 9, 2009 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has announced that the MHEG-5 profile for South Africa is now available for implementation in set top box decoders for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT).
News categories: SABC, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Set Top Box, Smart TV, South Africa, Terrestrial

South Africa announces draft STB manufacturing strategy
Jul 22, 2009 – South Africa's Department of Communications is planning to publish its Set Top Box (STB) Manufacturing Sector Development Strategy for South Africa by September 2009. The Department has issued a draft for public comment.
News categories: Department of Communications, Digital TV, Set Top Box, South Africa, Terrestrial

Africa's SADC sets 2013 analogue switch-off deadline
Jul 16, 2009 – The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) has set December 2013 as the deadline for its members to switch from analogue to digital broadcasting.
News categories: SADC, Angola, Botswana, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Terrestrial, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Digital TV Labs provides test suite for South Africa's DTT trial
May 6, 2009 – Digital TV Labs is providing its Evora iSuite test technology to support the current DTT trial in South Africa. Evora has been successfully used to test set-top boxes against the South African DVB-T with MPEG-4 specification.
News categories: SABC, Digital TV Labs, Set Top Box, South Africa, Terrestrial

SatLink Launches New DTH Platform to Africa on Astra 4A
Apr 19, 2009 – SatLink Communications has announced that it has acquired its own capacity covering sub-Saharan Africa on ASTRA's Astra 4A (Sirius 4) satellite located at 5° East. The MCPC platform is for DTH broadcasters aiming to cover the region.
News categories: SatLink, Africa, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Digital TV, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Satellite, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

South Africa publishes DTT regulations for final public consultation
Apr 2, 2009 – The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has published the Digital Terrestrial Television regulations for final public consultation.
News categories: ICASA, South Africa, Terrestrial

South Africa's Telkom Media pay-TV operator to close
Mar 25, 2009 – Telkom intends calling shareholder meetings to seek the approval for the winding up of Telkom Media. Telkom Media was awarded a commercial broadcasting licence to operate both a satellite pay-TV service and an IPTV service in South Africa.
News categories: Telkom, Digital TV, Finance, IPTV, Satellite, South Africa

GlobeCast launches new African DTH distribution platform on Astra 4A
Mar 3, 2009 – GlobeCast has announced that its African DTH platform has successfully started transmissions on SES ASTRA's Astra 4A (Sirius 4) satellite. African broadcaster VoxAfrica is one of the first channels to sign up for the new platform.
News categories: GlobeCast, VoxAfrica, Africa, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Digital TV, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Satellite, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

South Africa postpones Invitation To Apply for Mobile TV Broadcasting Services
Feb 24, 2009 – The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has informed all interested parties that it has decided to temporarily withdraw an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for frequencies to provide mobile digital video broadcasting services.
News categories: Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, Digital TV, Mobile, Regulation, South Africa