Spanish TV Changes : RTVE to turn off DTT standard definition channels tonight
Spanish public broadcaster will start to switch off its Standard Definition channels on the “terrestrial” ie TV aerial, service tonight.
The Standard definition channels will be switched off overnight between February 5 and February 6.
The SD channels that will be closed, La 1, La 2, 24 Horas, Clan and Teledeporte, will continue to be broadcast in high definition.
These channels have been available in HD for several years now, simulcasting in both SD and HD.
The capacity that is freed by these SD closures can then be used to enable the launch of ultra high definition services. RTVE is said to be launching TWO UHD channels, and in some areas of Spain these channels have been testing for a few months now.
The Standard definition channels will be switched off overnight between February 5 and February 6.
A week later, on February 14, the Spanish commercial channels will follow, and close their SD where they already have a HD version.
Other channels will remain in SD, but “upscaled” use the “HD” configuration parameters. SOme channels may even move to the DVBT2 broadcast standard.
The vast majority of television sets sold in Spain have for the past ten years been capable of decoding a video signal in the DVBT2 standard.
UPDATE 7th February 2024:
As you may have seen, the proposed switch off of RTVE SD channels did not go ahead.
Reports are that Cellnex , the telecommunications and broadcasting infrastructure provider, has had problems that have led to the delay in turning off the standard definition channels. It was planned that both those that broadcast simultaneously in HD and SD would cut the latter and that those that only broadcast in SD would start broadcasting in HD.
It is still anticipated that the switch will be complete by the deadline day of the 14th February 2024.
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