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Discover Digital is offering FightBox HD\u00a0on its IPTV service, which debuted in South Africa this month. The new\u00a0Digital Entertainment on Demand (DEOD)\u00a0service will enable Discover Digital to partner with regional telecommunications operators, both in the domestic market and in other African countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs mobile and fixed line operators enter\u00a0the media industry offering OTT and VOD services, SPI is extremely happy to collaborate with a professional business partner like Discover Digital in order to feed operators with the FilmBox TV channels and its exciting VOD content,\u201d said\u00a0Amit Karni, SPI&#8217;s head of distribution in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPI International\/FilmBox is rolling out its combat sports channel FightBox HD with Discover Digital in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[323,150,151],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-discover-digital","tag-fightbox-hd","tag-spi-internationalfilmbox"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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