The SABC is appointing independent inspectors to ... that the boxes could receive the SABC’s digital channels. These decoder-like STBs are necessary for households with no satellite TV and ...

Cape Town – Poor South Africans will no longer be required to have a SABC licence or a paid-up SABC TV licence to qualify to receive a free government subsidised decoder in order to keep watching the ...

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has announced its digital TV set-top boxes (STBs) will not have conditional access, saying this would put an extra burden on consumers as a ...

The broadcaster specified that the receiving equipment could include a “digital box/decoder, DVD [player] or PC”. Per the SABC’s description, that would mean that a monitor that is able ...

If you want to keep watching free-to-air TV (SABC, e.tv and community TV), you'll need a decoder. In South Africa, they are also called set-top boxes. For the past three years, there have been many ...

Consumers who are not subscribed to DSTv will need to sign up for a decoder or set top box, but on the plus side no more pesky bunny ears! The process is also a plus for the SABC, with IT Web ...

In South Africa, one has to pay a monthly television licence fee to access SABC channels; how is it that in Botswana a once-off purchase of the Philabao decoder gives you unlimited viewing of the ...

The SABC’s head of TV licences Sylvia Tladi says ... purchase or rental of a decoder, is granted, she said. “Furthermore, submitted regulations aim to make it obligatory for internet streaming ...