Aeranti-Corallo, the association representing Italian local television broadcasters, has said it intends to draw attention to the “serious situation” that is penalising the Italian local TV sector, in the process of transition to DVB-T2/HEVC.While the global market presents increasingly high-performance and large-sized television screens, capable of fully exploiting the potential of new high-quality image and sound encoding technologies, Italian local broadcasters are still forced to operate with obsolete transmission standards, due to the transition that is not being completed, moreover as required by law.On the subject, Marco Rossignoli, coordinator of Aeranti-Corallo, stated: “This situation determines an unjustified limitation of the quality of the service offered to citizens by local TV In fact, while national television broadcasters have been assigned an adequate transmission capacity, even continuing to use the old DVB-T standard (with MPEG-4 compression instead of MPEG-2), on the contrary, local televisions are forced to transmit with a significantly lower quality, pending the completion of the transition to DVB-T2/HEVC”.Rossignoli continued: “This situation not only damages the competitiveness of local TV, but also negatively affects information pluralism and the use of local content by the public. The ongoing uncertainty about the completion times of the transition to DVB-T2/HEVC, moreover, slows down local TV investments in new technologies and hinders the adaptation of infrastructures, with serious repercussions on innovation and modernisation of the sector”.“Aeranti-Corallo therefore reiterates the absolute need for urgent intervention by the competent institutions and, therefore, asks the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy (MIMIT), to define as soon as possible a binding timetable for the completion of the transition to DVB-T2/HEVC, as well as to adopt specific measures to support the technological adaptation process,” concluded Rossignoli.
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