TV: move from analogue to digital SBC starts distribution of set-top boxes |06 December 2017

The Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) has started distributing its set-top boxes to households in the country.

As the corporation prepares to make the switch from analog to digital, the set-top boxes will allow households to have HD visions with new and improved channels. According to Isabelle Gendron, the principal marketing officer of SBC, the set-top boxes are to give viewers better picture quality and to give the public something new since the world is gradually changing technologically.  

Each household will get one free set-top box by bringing a recent electricity bill. Channels offered by the set-top boxes will be SBC1 and SBC2 whereby you will receive the news and other programmes which are already played on SBC.

“Eventually, next year, we will introduce more channels,” Mrs Gendron said, adding that the plans for next years’ set-top boxes may include internet services on a new and advanced box.

The set-top boxes can be set up according to technical explanations given by the SBC customer care services which can be done over the phone or when you collect your decoder.

The decoders, which are ready for collection as of yesterday, December 5, were being distributed in districts such as Anse Aux Pins, Beau Vallon, Anse Boileau and in Victoria. The turn-out at the Kanna Mall in Victoria was quite a successful one as when Seychelles NATION reached there, the queue was long with impatient people waiting to get their free set-top box.

“I think that this is a very good initiative that SBC has taken with these decoders as now they give you other channels such as TV5 including better picture quality,” said a member of the public who had just received her new set-top box.

SBC said that the set-top boxes will be supplied for as long as possible until they feel that every household has received theirs.

In addition, the SBC has put in place a technical team to provide more support for the public who may have difficulties setting their decoders.