According to Ahmed Wahab, Head of Marketing and Sale, Smart TV offers a smart mix of exciting local and international content for the entire family. It offers both pay-TV service and free-to-air service of existing local stations on the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network. SMART TV will initially air in Accra and Kumasi and would later be extended to other regions in Ghana in the near future.
Technological development has brought about new and more efficient ways of recording, storing and processing electrical signals, enabling digital, rather than analogue, transmission. Digital television results from the application of this concept to the transmission of television signals. Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) is the broadcasting of the digital television signal over the radio spectrum.
Future transmission of Digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Ghana will be based on DVB-T technology and MPEG-4/H.264 video compression. Therefore, to receive DTT broadcasts, you should confirm, at a minimum, that the technical specification(s) of your equipment meet two requirements: It is compatible with the DVB-T standard; or it is capable of decoding MPEG-4/H.264 video.
If your equipment does not fulfill these conditions, you may take one of two courses of action: If you want to keep your current television set, you need to purchase an external device, usually a set-top-box connected between the aerial and the television set, meeting the two conditions above; or If you prefer to buy a new television set and not install this external device, you should acquire an integrated digital television set which is already capable of DVB-T reception and decoding MPEG-4/H.264 video. If you also receive other television services such as Pay TV Service on the DTT platform.
DTT offers better picture and sound quality, provides space for the introduction of new channels and enables the provision of new services such as electronic programme guides (EPG), super-teletext, interactive services and high definition television.
Smart TV belongs to a Swedish multinational company called Next Generation Broadcasting (NGB) which is partnering Fox International Channel as the only platform to provide Fox Entertainment in Ghana. It starts operations in Ghana with 16 channels including FOX, Showtime, Star, TRACE Tropical, Setanta Africa, BBC News, HiNolly, HomeBase, GOD TV, Kids, NET2, Viasat1, TV3 Ghana, GTV and TV Africa. Smart TV is set to launch in Kenya and Uganda later this year.
Pricing for the SMART TV digibox would start from a promotional price of GHC 89.
Smart TV Full package
Including: Decoder, antenna and programme card
Customers will have to sign an agreement to pay 12 monthly subscription
Price: GHC 119
Smart TV Standard package *
Including: Decoder, antenna
Price: GCH 173
SMART TV Subscription
1 Month Top up voucher – GHC 19
3 months Top up voucher – GHC 50
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