New round of frequencies for the Digital terrestrial TV in some Italian regions. About a week from changes to the HSE packagein fact, now it is the turn of some local broadcasters in five northern regions: Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont and Veneto.
In some cases the frequency change coincides with the transition to HD and to the H.264 codec, in one it is a simple change of the name of the broadcaster and, finally, in the latter case a completely new station arrives. In view of the start of the switch off of September 2021, the date on which the old MPEG-2 encoding standard will be abandoned in favor of MPEG-4. The process will end on June 30, 2022, when all broadcasters have changed frequency and switched to the new broadcast standard. DVB-T2 con codec HEVC H.265. The frequency changes that have been going on for months are nothing more than preparation for the big change that will begin in the second half of this year.
Digital terrestrial: what changes in Lombardy
Viewers of the Lombardy they have to retune the decoder or the TV because the SCH687 broadcaster, in the Mux Quenza 2, has changed codec and switched to H.264 (MPEG-4) in high resolution. But not only that: in the Mux Quenza 1 and Quenza 2 the new Gea TV station has arrived at number 688.
Digital terrestrial: what changes in Emilia Romagna
The viewers of theEmilia Romagna they must re-tune because the local Lombard broadcaster Teleboario, of the Mux Telelibertà, has extended to the provinces of Parma (channel number 71) and Piacenza (number 866). Also in this case the broadcaster transmits in H.264.
Digital terrestrial: what changes in the other regions
The latest change, however, concerns the viewers of Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Veneto, Piedmont e Val d’Aosta and it’s a simple name change for broadcaster LA242, which remains at number 242 but is now called LA242 China TV. It is, in fact, a television with programs in Chinese, dedicated to the Chinese community residing in Italy.
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