From mid-November, ARD will increasingly be focusing on image quality in HD, because as the broadcaster network announced on Tuesday, broadcasting of the broadcasters One, tagesschau24, phoenix and arte will be switched on in SD quality via satellite as of November 15th. From this date, viewers can only receive these television programs in HD quality – this usually means that cable customers also have to switch to HD reception. In the coming weeks and months, ARD and arte want to inform the public comprehensively about the details of the SD switch-off and the changeover to the transmission frequencies for the HD reception of One, phoenix, tagesschau24 and arte.
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ARD only sees a small proportion of households with SD reception
One, phoenix, tagesschau24 and arte have long been available to viewers in high-resolution HD image quality via satellite reception. In addition to broadcasting in HD, these television programs have hitherto been broadcast in parallel in SD quality via the satellite transponder 51. With the shutdown in mid-November 2022, the simulcast operation and thus the SD distribution of the four programs will end. The respective cable network operator is responsible for retransmission with cable reception. It is expected that the SD distribution of One, phoenix, tagesschau24 and arte will also be ended in the cable networks as a result of the satellite shutdown. For example, Vodafone switched off Arte SD in its cable networks at the end of March 2022.
With the streaming service Joyn, the HD versions of the stations are available free of charge in the live stream. (Advertisement)
The ARD justifies the switch-off with the increased use of HD by television viewers. Around 90 percent of households now receive their television programs in HD, which is why “only a relatively small proportion of TV households will be affected by the SD switch-off”, as ARD emphasized in a statement. One wants to make the distribution of the ARD program as economical and efficient as possible.
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