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DTT
South Africa is more than capable of manufacturing DTT set top boxes, having the requisite design and manufacturing skills to produce such devices. The issue is being able to do this at a price affordable to the viewer as is the ability to support the current installed base of analogue television sets. This is critical in order to lessen the resistance to migrating to digital within the dual illumination window.
3D
3D movies are all the rage, and 3DTV is not too far behind. The 2010 world cup was shot and broadcast live in 3D to several countries, and indeed South Africans were able to wonder at the spectacle in various 3D viewing areas including the Sony 3D 'dome' in the Mandela square Sandton. Does this mean 3DTV is on its way in South Africa?
“3DTV will see development during the next year primarily in the origination and production of content for overseas 3DTV channels” say Jess Goedhals General Manager of Sony Broadcast South Africa. “It is very unlikely that any South African broadcasters will start to broadcast this year. There are however a number of local production companies that have already started producing 3D TV content. Wildlife filmmakers like Aquavision have also started to produce content for the overseas 3DTV channels such as Discovery”.
3DTV
Concillium’s Alves believes that 3DTV is still in its infancy: “While there may be early adopters willing to invest in this viewing technology for viewing DVD's, the technology is very expensive, proprietary and not that practical for everyday viewing in the home. We don’t see 3DTV as a priority for the broadcasters in the coming year.”
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