New DVB-T2 standard. From when will it come into force? DVB-T2 is already operating in some voivodships

Since 2013, the only standard for terrestrial television in Poland is the digital standard. It was then that analogue broadcasting ended. After 9 years, the situation repeats itself. In accordance with the schedule outlined by UKE, from 27 June 2022, a new standard of terrestrial television will apply throughout Poland -.

DVB-T2. When is the new standard in Poland?

So it will be another revolution, albeit on a smaller scale. The most important change concerns the way the image is encoded. For DVB-T2, a new codec is used – HEVC. Thanks to the new compression standard, DVB-T2 will offer us better sound and picture quality, as well as a greater number of channels within the terrestrial television multiplex. As a result of changing the standard, access to digital terrestrial television may lose up to two million.

While almost all TV sets sold in our country have been offering DVB-T2 support for several years, some of them can only read the image encoded with the older video coding standard, so these users may have a problem.

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DVB-T2. Co-financing for a new decoder

For this reason, on Tuesday, March 15, it adopted an amendment to the act on supporting households in bearing costs related to the change in the standard of terrestrial broadcasting. Two types of funding have been established – PLN 250 for and PLN 100 for which will be available until the end of 2022.

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DVB-T2. When will the new standard come into force?

The transition to the new DVB-T2 standard in Poland is planned for the second quarter of 2022. According to the schedule drawn up by the Office of Electronic Communications, the introduction of the new standard has been divided into four stages, the first of which has already started:

• Stage 1 – from March 28, 2022: the Sudetes and Lower Silesia region, Lubuskie Voivodeship;
• Stage 2 – from April 25, 2022: the Pomeranian belt from Szczecin to the Tri-City, a large part of Greater Poland, Kujawy, the western part of Mazovia;
• Stage 3 – from May 23, 2022: the southern part of Greater Poland, the Lodz Region, Kielce region, Subcarpathia, Lesser Poland, Upper Silesia, Opole region;
• Stage 4 – from June 27, 2022: Mazowsze, Eastern Poland (from the Suwałki region through Podlasie, to the Lublin region and the Zamość region).