Italy’s RAI will move some of its channels to exclusively transmitting via the DVB-T2 HEVC standard from August 28th, the broadcaster has announced.
Rai Storia, Rai Scuola and Rai Radio 2 Visual channels will be broadcast exclusively via DVB-T2 transmissions.
RAI has postponed its move to DVB-T2 multiple times due to concerns not enough homes had the correct equipment installed. It was first mooted in June 2022.
Marco Rossignoli, president of Aeranti-Corallo (the Italian association representing around 150 local television broadcasters), said: “At this point, the transition to the new technology can no longer be postponed, in order to allow the local broadcaster to have adequate transmission capacity for broadcasting of its programmes in high definition.
“To date, in fact, with the current DVB-T/MPEG-4 transmissions, the local television broadcaster has too little radio space to be able to transmit programmes with adequate technical quality. We need to accelerate the transition of the entire Italian television system to the new standard,”
