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The Council of Ministers authorised on Tuesday a Royal Decree with the brand new National Technical Plan of Digital Terrestrial Television (TDT) that may enhance the standard of the broadcasts and the provision of a brand new state channel that “will soon go to competition,” in accordance with the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function. The plan will suggest a renewal of an necessary half of the present TV park to assist new applied sciences and a subsidization of the channels, though to a a lot lesser extent than when the analog tv was modified to the digital.

The norm establishes the authorized and technical framework to introduce within the service of the DTT of any territorial (state, autonomic and native) the DVB-T2 transmission expertise that may enable generalizing the emissions with extremely excessive definition high quality (UHD). With regard to the present TDT channels, the brand new TDT plan maintains the identical land digital tv networks (a number of digital) and the territorial disconnections that existed within the earlier technical plan, so not one of the DTT channels that exist as we speak.

The course of set to implement this technological evolution implies redistribution within the group of state -of -the -art tv channels between the completely different digital a number of, which makes part of the capability for a brand new state channel for a state -of -the -art channel, whose license will go to the competition “soon”, so the provide of TDT channels will likely be expanded, as defined by the Ministry directed by Óscar López.

The course of will likely be finished in two phases. In the primary, the target is to favor the implementation of expertise and that residents start to recurrently obtain state -im -state TDT channels with UHD high quality. These UHD channels will problem simultaneous content material that’s already broadcast on different channels, so residents won’t cease receiving any channel or content material. Also, on this preliminary section the difference of the TV receptor park will likely be carried out to obtain DVB-T2 transmission expertise and UHD high quality emissions. When the TV park is sufficiently tailored, section 2 will start, which can suggest the worldwide implementation of DVB-T2 expertise and UHD high quality in all TDT providers, each state, regional and native.

To assure this gradual adaptation of the Receptor Park, the brand new nationwide plan fixes particular dates from which the receiving tools that doesn’t obtain emissions with these technical requirements will not be marketed in Spain, thus avoiding that residents can purchase televisions that aren’t tailored to the brand new technical necessities.

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In this manner, as much as 4 channels in UHD decision will likely be launched within the first stage: along with the 1 UHD, RTVE UHD, a UHD channel of Mediaset and one other UHD channel of Atresmedia will likely be obtainable. Households which have outdated televisions that aren’t suitable with DVB-T2 won’t be able to see these new channels, though they’ll proceed to see the remainder of the HD programming. The second section will likely be launched when 95% of the nation’s DTT receptors are suitable with this commonplace and not less than 90% of televisions enable the receipt of emissions in 4K and the H.265 codec. At this stage, those that shouldn’t have an up to date tv might now not watch TDT in any respect.

In February 2024, the final reorganization of the DTT happened, which served to consolidate the excessive definition (HD), from the usual high quality broadcast (SD), so that each one channels that didn’t problem in a minimal high quality HD to 720p disappeared, leaving out of date to the oldest televisions. Now the transit is from the HD to UHD, for which it’s essential to introduce the DVB-T2 commonplace, which provides roughly 30% extra capability than the present DVB-T, changing into the pillar of the brand new TDT. The DVB-T2 is already applied in 72% of households in Europe and in 58% of Spanish households, though solely 31% of televisions assist the brand new commonplace, in accordance with official information from late 2023.

The Minister of Education and Government spokesman, Pilar Alegría, stated within the press convention after the Council of Ministers that the Plan has been “debated and agreed with the sector” since June of final 12 months. “Every time there has been a technological advance in this matter, a national plan has been approved,” stated pleasure, which has recalled that “this happened when the analog system to digital was changed.” “Now we see it with the change of the high definition of the ultra definition,” added the minister, to affect that, “at this time, almost all of the European countries already issue in this new technology that means above all to give a higher quality for citizenship.”