ZA Tech Show: Episode 9
In this episode the gang is joined by Gerdus van Eeden, CTO of MultiChoice — our first ever guest on the show. We discuss:
- HD TV coming to DSTV, as well as DVB-H and other network features on the way. Gerdus answers all our questions.
- Ben and Duncan have Neotel handsets! We reveal the consumer offering from the SNO, with pricing.
- Ex Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane is threatening to get back into the telco market.
- Altech’s confusing WiMax situation.
- India’s Bharti Airtel rumored to be interested in MTN.
- Interest supposedly shown in GijimaAST by BT.
- Apple’s acquisition of PA Semiconducor and what this could mean for future products.
- The launch of Nintendo’s Wii Fit
- Facebook Chat
- HP launches its first global Concept Store in South Africa.
Thanx for another great show.
Regards
SimonB
[...] Episode 9 of ZA Tech Show is live. This was a milestone recording for us, because it saw the first ever industry guest being featured on the show - Gerdus van Eeden, CTO for Multichoice. We discussed: [...]
The guest was damn excellent, nice to be able to cut through all the speculation and get a bunch of facts from someone who knows what’s happening. I learned more about ZA HDTV in this podcast than I’ve learned to date, and I pretty much follow all the local tech news on the major information sources.
Would have been nice if we could find out how much extra Multichoice would charge for access to HDTV. That bloody monopoly will charge for anything (read: PVR access).
Will really appreciate feedback re HD feed on one LNB.
Complex only has one LNB feed to all apartments with no chance of upgrading to two LNB’s.
What are our options with new Pace or other? HD decoders?
Regards
lodewyk