High resolution delay of DTT causes chains to go backwards too: DMAX is one of them and it turns to SD

Last month we discovered that the government has decided to delay the final transition from DTT to HD and there is a deadline until February 14, 2024 for networks to be updated to this decision and abandoning the standard definition once and for all.

This led to some chains also hit the brakes on upgrading to HD. DMAX is one of them, and although it only announced a move to HD a few months ago, the network has decided to step back and stay in SD for now.

DTT in HD, a little further

As Mundoplus.tv points out, according to the estimates of the AUC (Communication Users Association), In 2020, 88% of the population had a compatible device to play HD content. However, there seems to be some fear of the chains stepping up as there will be people who won’t be able to get into certain channels by switching to HD and removing SD channels from DTT.

DMAX has decided to broadcast in HD, which is one of the main reasons for the Roland Garros competition. Some of the tournament matches could be watched on this channel, so the channel owned by Discovery Networks decided to switch to HD. However, after the deadline was postponed to February 2024, chain withdrawn and reissued in standard definitionTwo months after announcing the jump to HD.

The government’s initial plan was to end standard definition channels by January 1, 2023. This measure, enshrined in the BOE, would have been able to watch standard definition TV 2022 last year. Removing these channels Means more room for more channels to come in HDand even more bandwidth is available to initiate DTT’s first 4K retransmissions.

It looks like viewers will have to wait a little longer for the transition to HD to be final on the DTT channel list.