As announced by Royal Decree 391/2019 of 21 June, this change will allow: It saves bandwidth and benefits the transfer of 4K content. Also, it will be in favor “The rise in Europe Number of services related to fifth generation mobile telephony (5G)”.
The change was: It is planned to be held on January 1, 2023 However, as announced by the Ministry of Digital Transformation, it was postponed due to the Covid-19 epidemic. “The extension of this deadline responds to the emerging situation “The epidemic slowed down the renewal of the television fleet to include DTT broadcasts in high definition”, He announced Nadia Calviño in January 2023.
Therefore, this change starts on February 14, 2024 and from that day onwards You will need to have an HD compatible television or receiver.
Decoder or television replacement
The government gave assurance 98% of current devices allow HD services, and this measure will affect only 2% of existing televisions. However, it is important to emphasize that an antenna and other technical aspects associated with the signal will also be needed to achieve this transition. What about these devices? further Older people will need the support of a person decoder anyone tuner HD capable, another alternative is to buy one compatible television with these new technologies.
Regardless of the option chosen, the next step will be to redo the setting. channel list so just these HD qualityas the rest will be useless and they would take up space useless within the cast. This process must also be done by the users receiving the service. via satellite (TDTSAT), which must also commit to an installation decoder In case of reception only standard channels.
deadlines
Deadlines will vary depending on the situation contact groupHowever, it should be noted that many of them have been offering SD and HD services for years. simultaneous. In this way, channels RTVEfor example, they stopped having the standard version early on 5 – 6 February; Meanwhile, they also started broadcasting their own channels. Ultra High Definition (UHD).
For your part, media set will apply the relevant changes in the same way 14th FebruaryWhile liking channels boing, Theology, Energy anyone FDFWhat has only been broadcasting in SD so far will now start broadcasting in HD. Similar atresmediamain channels (Sixth And antenna 3) already has high-resolution versions and the date is February 14. neox, not going And Mega They are starting to do the same.
In the case of regional television stations FORTA (Federation of Autonomous Radio and Television Organizations), cat3 And Canary Television They have been broadcasting in HD since January 16th. Similar telemadrid And EITBthey started doing this day 8and a few days later, 12 Februarythey joined the list South Channel, – Betting, CMM, Ib3 And RTPA. Finally, 7 Telewaiting for the day Valentine’s day experiencing transformation.