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    e.tv slams M-Net over digital TV

    Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has slammed M-Net for suggesting last week that the country would be better off scrapping plans to build set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television, saying the pay-TV operator is acting out of self-interest only.
    Duncan McLeodBy Duncan McLeod: @mcleodd
    11 Oct 2011
    11 Oct 2011

    M-Net's director for legal and regulatory affairs, Karen Willenberg, told TechCentral last week that the country should instead consider the use of cheaper "digital converters" - which cost R350 or less - rather than full set-top boxes that could cost R700 or more.

    e.tv chief operating officer Bronwyn Keene-Young says M-Net and its sister company MultiChoice, which operates the DStv satellite pay-TV platform, want to ensure that SA has "as weak a free-to-air platform as possible". By arguing against set-top boxes, Keene-Young says M-Net is hoping to prevent its free-to-air rivals from launching compelling multi-channel alternatives.

    Continue reading the full story on www.TechCentral.co.za.

    Read more: set top boxes, DTT, set top box, set-top box, Bronwyn Keene-Young, Digital Terrestrial Television, Duncan McLeod, set-top boxes, digital terrestrial TV, Karen Willenberg, digital terrestrial broadcasting, digital dividend
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    About Duncan McLeod: @mcleodd

    Award-wining Duncan McLeod is the founder and editor of TechCentral (wwwTechCentral.co.za, @TechCentral]]), South Africa's latest technology news site offering breaking news, in-depth analysis and opinion that launched in September 2009. Before that, he was associate editor at the Financial Mail/FM. Contact Duncan on email duncan at techcentral dot co dot za and follow him on Twitter at @mcleodd.
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