DTT

Spain has a plan to completely renew DTT. More than half of households cannot comply

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In Spain, DTT is on the verge of making the leap to DVB-T2. It is normal that these acronyms sound Chinese to you, so we are going to review the change that our televisions will face after the necessary retuning both to make room for a new channel that is to come, and for the migration to DVB-T2. The new channel. The BOE has published This weekend the resolution that awards a new television channel to Integrated Television Entertainment Services (SEVEN). The Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service awarded last May the license for a new DTT channel for 15 years, renewable to the company managed by Andrés Varela and linked to shareholders of the Prisa group. The first phase. SEVEN has a maximum period of six months to start its broadcasts, forcing the Secretariat to publish in the coming weeks a resolution with the exact date on which everything will start: the arrival of SEVEN, the retuning and the beginning of the technological migration will occur at the same time. What is a multiple. Before getting into acronyms, it is worth understanding how DTT works. The channels do not each broadcast on their own, they travel grouped in packages that share the same radio frequency. And those packages are called multiples. In other words, it is as if several channels shared the same highway to reach their destination, your television antenna. Until now, these multiplexes used the DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial) standard. Its successor, as you may have guessed, is DVB-T2. This new multiple allows up to 68% more data to be transported and, secondly, replaces the H.264 codec with H.265 (HEVC). You may be familiar with these last acronyms, since almost all high-end phones record video by default in H.265: a more advanced codec that requires practically half the data to transmit the same image quality. What is going to happen and when. The calendar has been in the air since 2024 and, even today, it is not closed. What we know for the project is that this is a two-phase process: First phase: he state manifold RGE2shared between RTVE, Atresmedia and Mediaset2, will migrate to the DVB-T2 standard. In addition to the efficiency that we mentioned previously, the migration comes hand in hand with UHD emissions. Devices that do not support the standard will still be able to play HD content. Second phase: The definitive move to DVB-T2 marks that all televisions must be compatible with this standard to play content. It is something that, a priori, will take time to arrive. The complete change will not be made until two milestones are achieved: that at least 95% of DTT receivers are compatible with DVB-T2 and that at least 90% of televisions can receive UHD (4K) broadcasts. Go deeper. In short, Spanish DTT cannot be reorganized or begin the migration to the new standard until the new channel is up and running. This is why the arrival of SEVEN marks a before and after for the beginning of the plan. Nevertheless, according to the latest adoption figuresonly 36.6% of the television fleet is compatible with 4K broadcasts, very far from the 95% set by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service. The first phase is at your doorstep and should begin in 2026 according to the established plan, the second will not begin until the general picture changes. Since last year, Spain cannot legally sell a TV that is not compatible with DVB-T2 and that is not UHD ready, although the complete renovation of the park is not expected until after 2030. In Xataka | How to configure your Smart TV to watch the 2026 World Cup in the best possible way

How to create a pocket TV antenna using an old Chromecast to watch DTT on any TV

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Let’s explain to you how to turn a Chromecast into an antenna for DTTso you can watch it on any television. So, if you have one of these devices around the house, you can use it for this purpose and always take it with you for your trips, especially if you go to places where there are slightly older TVs. The Chromecast is no longer sold, Google killed it in 2024, but you may still have one at home. We won’t really turn it into an antenna, what we are going to do is install the necessary applications so you can use it to connect to a television and watch DTT. Therefore, the only requirement is that it be a Chromecast with Android TV or Google TV to be able to install applications. Your Chromecast converted into a DTT player The first thing you have to do is install an application where you can load and play a list IPTV on your Chromecast. Some of the most important and recommended are kodi either VLCand other more specific ones such as wiseplay. There are also other specialized ones such as DTT Channelsalthough Wiseplay’s should be sufficient and easy to use. Once you have the application installed, you will have to add an IPTV list. These lists are a delicate issue, because without being strictly illegal, some are persecuted for broadcasting paid content. However, you can use free IPTV lists that are limited to offering you DTT channels. Some of the main IPTV lists that you can download are, as explained on Xataka Android: IPTV.org, available on the project’s GitHub and Free TV, which you can also get on your GitHub. These are lists where the addresses are stored with which you can access the broadcasts of IPTV channels using remote IP addresses. The format they usually have to reproduce is m3u, in addition to others such as m3u8 or w3u, and hence they are also known as “m3u Lists”. Image by Eva R. de Luis What you have to do is enter the application you have chosen, such as Wiseplay, and go to the section to add a new list. This will take you to a screen where you have to type the URL to this list. Here, you have to paste address from list that you have chosen or the m3u or w3u file, and then it will be added to the application. From now on, using this application you will be able to watch any DTT channel on this list through your Chromecast. You will need to have access to the Internetalthough you can do this by sharing your mobile data network. And that’s it. With these steps you have converted your Chromecast into a device to watch DTT. Now you can always take it with you, and this way if you go to a place with a television where you want to watch a local channel, even regional, you will be able to do so. In Xataka Basics | Free football on DTT: all the channels that offer the First Division of LaLiga EA Sports this season

The Government approves the new Plan for DTT. One with more 4K channels and the nth “blackout”

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The Council of Ministers He has approved today the new National Technical Technical Technical Plan. His great objective, As we mentionedis to generalize emissions with quality UHD/4K so that the quality of these emissions is as much as possible. But to that prominence of the emissions in 4K another news is added. 4K EMISSIONS BY FLAG. With this new plan, both the legal and the technic framework are established so that the DVB-T2 transmission technology is adopted at all levels (state, autonomous and local). That will allow all emissions to end up making the leap to the quality of ultra high definition (UHD, also known as 4K, although There are slight differences). The immediate future. The Royal Decree must be confirmed by Congress within a maximum period of one month. From there, both the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Secretary of State for Telecommunications must initiate the frequency migration process and technical adjustments. That will allow the emission spectrum to adapt to that new situation. SIGHTING RESTIPIZATION. As indicated In The Objectivethey will have to migrate a daring channel, another of Mediaset and the Radio Blanca (DKISS) signal. That will force consumers to suffer their televisions or TDT adapters. It is not known when it will be necessary to carry out that subsidization of the channels, but it will probably occur in autumn of 2025. It is the nth “blackout of the DTT”, a necessary process to enjoy these new channels in UHD quality. The next to have UHD channels. This reorganization will allow both Atresmedia and Mediaset to have a frequency with UHD emissions each. It is for example what TVE already has, which has been using this channel in tests for a year, and also leaves the door open so that other chains can also request UHD emissions. A two -phase process. The first plan will work to “favor the implementation of technology”, so that the adaptation of the TV receptor park is promoted To be compatible with DVB-T2. From there, phase 2 will begin, with a global implementation of this technology and UHD quality in all TDT services. And new auction channel. All these changes will allow according to the announcement that a part of the capacity of one of the multiple digital is free for a new standard quality channel (SD) of state. The license of said channel will be held soon, so the offer of TDT channels will be expanded, explain those responsible for the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function. Deadlines. If everything goes as expected, after the theoretical final approval of the Congress, the bidding sheets would be prepared in the same month of April, the contest to auction the new channel would be held in May. Before the summer, the award should have been completed, which would prepare us for that reseintonization when the 2025-2026 course begins. Who will that channel be? According to The Objective, the great candidate to keep that channel is a group of shareholders of the Prisa Group. They already have 20 million euros of budget for the first three years and the objective would be to get 3% of Share at the end of that period. Nothing is determined, and both Atresmedia and Mediaset or even Telefónica seem to be considering presenting their offers. Image | TIM MOSSHOLDER In Xataka | The DTT changes again in 2025: what will we need on our TV so that the transition to DVB-T2 does not affect us

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