GOTV, a pay television service on the latest Digital Video
Broadcast (DVB-T2) technology has come to town in Lagos.
Speaking at the event, the General Manager at GoTv Nigeria,
Mr. Mayo Okunola, says the new pay-TV service provides is a low cost product to
accommodate low income Nigerians and still enjoy the GOTv offering that
utilizes the latest DVB-T2 standard technology which leapfrogs the outdated T1
system that is still being utilized by some pay television operators to launch
digital services -thus providing Nigerians with only the latest and best
digital technology available worldwide.
He also made know a promo offering, a three month
subscription included with GOTv setup box for N8, 000 and N9, 500 for the GOTv
plus package. While the N8, 000 package offers 26 channels, theGOTv plus
package gives about 34 channels. “I think Nigerians, especially Lagosians would
lash on the N9, 500 subscription plan,” he said.
GOTv provides television lovers with a dramatic improvement
on picture and sound quality and an exciting channel line-up. It offers
subscribers the most advanced technology and broadcast system in Africa and the
rest of the world to date, and currently the only digital television pay
service on DVB-T2 technology in Nigeria.
GOTv subscribers, Okunola says, would have access to news,
children’s programming, documentaries, series and movies.
The channels, the general manager says, were carefully
selected to cater for a variety of different tastes and cultures, adding that
the line-up is designed to ensure that viewers enjoy improved pictures and
sound quality that is synonymous with digital television.
Some of the channels that would be available to GOtv
subscribers include AfricaMagic Movies, AfricaMagic World, AfricaMagic Yoruba,
AfricaMagic Hausa, E! Entertainment, Discovery World, eTV Africa, Select
Sports, Al Jazeera, CNN, Channel O, Disney Junior, Kidsco, Sound City , to name
a few.
“The Pay-TV service does not require a satellite dish and
there is no installation cost. All it requires is a GOTv decoder and a stub or
grid antenna,” Okunola explained.
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