Re: Status: Digital Terrestrial Television South Africa.

Hi Daniel

From what I've read they started the DTT roll-out in the Northern Cape in
the area of the SKA radio telescope e.g. Carnavon, Vanwyksvlei, Brandvlei,
Vosburg and Williston and near the border e.g. Keimoes and Kai Garib.

Try adding those as search terms when looking for information on where the
DTT signal has been turned on.


Regards,

Liam

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Daniel Schroder <[email protected]>
wrote:

>    Hi all.. does ANYONE know what is happening with the digital
>    Terrestrial television rollout in south africa, and ANYTHING regards
>    the signal, if it's currently broadcasting, which channel (Frequency)
>    and the encoding, and what areas. I'm prepared to go somewhere where I
>    can get a decent signal, and send that over the Internet to the hotel,
>    and demux it there into all the stations and radio stations.
>    An unencrypted DVB-T2 signal allows one to run six streams per
>    demodulator onto the network at once, they cost around 10k each, and
>    allow you full control of channels tuning etc via a web interface. Now
>    it's stacks of decoders with remotes all over the place, really old
>    school.
>    However it's possible to decode the broadcasts using SDR's, works like
>    a charm for radio stations. We running cheap SDR's for radio stations,
>    transcoded to rtsp onto the network, really easy (see
>    [1]http://www.rtl-sdr.com/ .. lots of fun to play with.) What I want is
>    a DVB-T2 signal, break it up into all the separate channels, transcode
>    with a tv headend, and send over the network. That's a room full of
>    decoders/power supplies plugs etc that can be shelved.
>    I'm pulling what's left of my hair trying to get info. Theres something
>    running on that frequency but it's the digital equivalent of static. I
>    can't even find out if it's encrypted or not, this changes the
>    equipment we need to order.
>    I'm busy rolling out a IPTV network at a hotel, gone through two
>    kilometers already of cabling, all is running smoothly, except this
>    free to air issue. Currently we stuck running a decoder to a channel,
>    and it's a pain in the arse. DSTV is a ripoff and a joke, they do not
>    offer anything remotely akin to IPTV, they offer there own version of
>    it, but again, we need to put DSTV set top boxes in each room. What was
>    the kicker was any branding changes to the menu or adding/removing
>    channels has to be done by DSTV themselves, at cost.
>    Daniel
>
> References
>
>    1. http://www.rtl-sdr.com/
>
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