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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/military-u...ies-in-europe/
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Russian threat means Europe is looking at military usage for digital terrestrial TV frequency band. A move that would threaten not just TV, but also wireless communications and potential future mobile network usage.
UK broadcasters are pushing toward a mid-2035 terrestrial TV switch-off in favour of a streaming-only future. They’ve shown little or no interest in maintaining terrestrial TV in any form beyond this date, citing costs.
It appears that the terrestrial TV switch off May come earlier than I thought.
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Facts you conveniently omit:
1. UHF’s primary use in relevant legislation is cultural. Military has only a secondary claim.
2. It is only the German army that’s even floating this. A secondary user of UHF spectrum in one country, speculating about use of spectrum that is subject to international treaty.
And, from the link highlighted in the very phrase ‘little or no interest in maintaining terrestrial TV’ beyond 2035 are these delightful nuggets of fact:
1. Ofcom believes 27% of homes will still rely exclusively on DTT in 2040 (i.e. 16 years from now)
2. Ofcom has proposed 3 ways of ensuring the viability of free-to-air TV, two of which involve not switching off DTT at all, but rather making it more streamlined.
3. The third option, switching off over-the-air broadcasts entirely, could occur ‘at some future date’ (i.e., unspecified) and only at the end of a transition process has yet to be designed or agreed, and which Ofcom believes would require
8 to 10 years.
https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/ofcom-free...ld-be-removed/
If you think any of the above in any way supports your fantasies about broadcast TV being turned off in the foreseeable future, please let me know who your dealer is because you’re smoking some primo junk.