R400m for digital TV subsidies
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Digital set-top boxes 'on sale in 2010'
The set-top boxes that many South Africans will need to watch television as the country completes its move from analogue to digital broadcasting are likely to go on sale in the first half of 2010, with poorer households in line to receive a state-subsidised discount on the price of the units.
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