[kictanet] The battle for control of Kenyan Digital airspace

[Barrack Otieno]

Afro Cinema continues.

Best Regards

On 1/20/15, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Some madness is brewing in the battle to control the Kenyan digital
> airspace. The following advert has been running after every 30 minutes in
> all the 4 TV stations:
>
>
> "Viewers do not be duped into purchasing GOTv and StarTimes pay TV set-top
> boxes as a means to access and watch Citizen TV, NTV, QTV, and KTN ... We
> are finding ways to stop this infringement of copyright, we are soon
> launching our own set-top boxes to distribute our free to air channels".
>
> My questions are these:
> 1. Do we need multiple set top boxes to watch content from the three
> different consortium?
> 2. Is it illegal to watch Citizen TV, NTV, and KTN using non-branded top
> boxes, or even GOTv and Startimes?
> 3. Is it that the 3 media houses have seen there is no way they will be
> able to sell the one million set top boxes they have purchased thus they
> want to offload electric waste to innocent Kenyan viewers?
> 4. Is there any Kenya willing to buy a set-top box with only 4 stations?
> 5. What is the stand of CA on this?
>
>
> Does it matter if I watch the TV using LG, Samsung, Sanyo, Greatwall,
> Panasonic, Sony ... because the Set-top box technology is just an extension
> of the TV, and anybody with a build in DVBT2 TV set will be able to watch
> this content without a set-top box anyway.
>
> Sincerely,
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>
> "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on
> higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
>


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