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Revision as of 17:36, 20 March 2013
First efforts to introduce DVB-T in Poland was made in 1997 in Gdańsk on initiative of TVP (Polish public television broadcaster). First test DVB-T emission was carried in Warsaw at 9 November 2001.
At 2006 conference in Geneva known as GE06 Poland received eight DVB-T multiplexes—seven at UHF frequencies 470÷862 MHz (channels 21÷69) and one at VHF frequency 174÷230 MHz (channels 6÷12). Since some of these frequencies are currently used for analog PAL terrestrial television broadcasting, it is possible to run only two nationwide multiplexes (MUX1, MUX2) and one (MUX3) which covers part of country (58% of population). Introduction of all multiplexes will be possible after switching off analog broadcasting.
A Government document entitled “Country digitalization schedule”, dated January 2009, set out plan for the digital broadcast switch-on to be made in three steps and analog broadcast switch-off in six steps.
First regular digital broadcast started on 30 September 2010. Analog broadcast switch-off started on 30 June 2011. Analog broadcasting will be definitely terminated at 31 July 2013.
The period of time between digital broadcast switch-on and analog broadcast switch-off will allow people time to buy new integrated Digital TVs or set-top boxes.
Technical information
Polish digital terrestrial television broadcast uses 25 Hz H.264/AVC HDTV video, MPEG-2 Layer 2 and E-AC-3 audio, for a Baseline IRD able to decode up to 1920 × 1080 interlaced 25 Hz video pictures or 1280 × 720 progressive 50 Hz video pictures.
During tests also MPEG-2 encoding for video was used.
Assignment of channels in multiplexes
Plan from January 2009 included three nationwide multiplexes with seven SDTV channels in each:
- MUX1 – current free-to-air terrestrial analog channels: public (TVP1, TVP2, TVP Info) and commercial (Polsat, TVN, TV4, TV Puls); after analog broadcast switch-off MUX3 will cover all country population and public channels will be moved to it; there will be competition for three freed channels;
- MUX2 – open competition;
- MUX3 – public broadcaster; after analog broadcast switch-off MUX3 will cover all country population and public channels will be moved to it from MUX1; there will be competition for three freed channels in MUX1.
In January 2010 new plan on introducing DVB-T was presented. Assignment of multiplexes was changed:
- MUX1 – public broadcaster channels (including current analog TVP1, TVP2, TVP Info);
- MUX2 – current terrestrial analog commercial free-to-air channels (Polsat, TVN, TV4, TV Puls) plus one additional from each broadcaster – total number of channels in this multiplex: 8.
In June 2010 another change in assignment of multiplexes was made:
- MUX1 – four channels chosen in open competition and temporary three public broadcaster channels (TVP1, TVP2, TVP Info); after analog broadcast switch-off MUX3 will cover all country population and public channels will be deleted from MUX1; there will be competition for three freed channels;
- MUX2 – four current terrestrial analog commercial free-to-air channels (Polsat, TVN, TV4, TV Puls) plus one additional from each broadcaster (respectively: Polsat Sport News, TVN7, TV6, Puls 2);
- MUX3 – five public broadcaster channels (TVP1, TVP2, TVP Info, TVP Culture, TVP History); after switch-off analog broadcast MUX3 will cover all country population and public broadcaster channels will be deleted from MUX1.
List of channels on multiplexes
| MUX1 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Channel | Owner | Type | |||||||||
| TVP1 HD[1] | Telewizja Polska | General | |||||||||
| TVP2[1] | Telewizja Polska | General | |||||||||
| TVP Info[1] [2] | Telewizja Polska | News/Regional | |||||||||
| ATM Rozrywka | ATM Grupa (Polsat Group) | Entertainment | |||||||||
| TTV | Stavka (ITI Group) | Social-intervention | |||||||||
| Eska TV | Grupa Radiowa Time (ZPR SA) | Music | |||||||||
| Polo TV | Lemon Records (ZPR SA) | Music | |||||||||
| MUX2 | |||||||||||
| Channel | Owner | Type | |||||||||
| Polsat | Polsat Group | General | |||||||||
| TVN | ITI Group | General | |||||||||
| TV4 | Polskie Media (Polsat Group) | General | |||||||||
| TV Puls | Telewizja Puls | General | |||||||||
| Polsat Sport News | Polsat Group | Sport/News | |||||||||
| TVN7 | ITI Group | Entertainment | |||||||||
| TV6 | Polskie Media (Polsat Group) | Entertainment | |||||||||
| Puls 2 | Telewizja Puls | Entertainment | |||||||||
| MUX3 | |||||||||||
| Channel | Owner | Type | |||||||||
| TVP1 | Telewizja Polska | General | |||||||||
| TVP2 HD | Telewizja Polska | General | |||||||||
| TVP Info[2] | Telewizja Polska | News/Regional | |||||||||
| TVP Kultura | Telewizja Polska | Cultural | |||||||||
| TVP Historia | Telewizja Polska | Documentary | |||||||||
| TVP Polonia | Telewizja Polska | Worldwide | |||||||||
| TV Mobilna - pay multiplex[3] | |||||||||||
| Channel | Owner | Type | |||||||||
| Polsat News | Polsat Group | News | |||||||||
| Polsat Sport | Polsat Group | Sport | |||||||||
| Polsat Sport Extra | Polsat Group | Sport | |||||||||
| Polsat Film | Polsat Group | Movies | |||||||||
| Kino Polska | SPI International Polska | Movies | |||||||||
| TVP Seriale | Telewizja Polska | Series | |||||||||
| Comedy Central | MTV Networks | Series | |||||||||
| Nickelodeon | MTV Networks | Children | |||||||||
Current status
As of October 2012:
- MUX1 covers ca. 95% of population;
- MUX2 covers ca. 94% of population;
- MUX3 covers ca. 45% of population.
Analog shutdown
The shutdown of analog broadcast will take place in 7 steps between November 7th, 2012 and July 23rd, 2013.
Most operators of analog cable TV are planning to continue providing analog service in their networks for an unspecified period of time.
Additional government actions
Information campaigns about analog broadcast switch-off in mass media.
Requiring electronic equipment sellers to inform buyers that MPEG-2 TVs and STBs are not compatible with national standard which is MPEG-4 AVC.
Financial help for poor families and seniors to buy TV or STB – ca. 250 PLN per household, totalling 475 million PLN.[citation needed]