A few days ago we reported on the update of DTT channels in HD that should have joined the Movistar Plus+ grid, as stipulated, but the truth is that several High Definition broadcasts were yet to arrive at your service. This situation caused its customers to complain when they continued watching channels in SD quality, which should have disappeared automatically. Now, Movistar has already announced its intention to add 8 HD channels.
February 14, 2024 was the day of the nationwide DTT blackout, so all frequencies from the SD standard format must be moved to the new HD resolution. However, teleoperators that offer a television offer in their portfolio are being the furthest behind in completing the process of including all High Definition DTT content in their catalogue.
This has raised blisters among consumers as they did not receive official communication. However, Movistar Plus+, which has been one of the most punished, has already gotten to work to try to transfer all DTT channels in HD to its television schedule as soon as possible. Right now, the company is testing to add 6 more channels.
Movistar Plus+ and its dubious broadcast in HD
Although Movistar Plus+ users see DTT channels on their respective decoders without any problem, the truth is that the telephone company has not yet taken charge of carrying out the National Technical Plan for Digital Terrestrial Television, approved by the Government last year, to regulate all broadcasts of official DTT channels to the new standard HD resolution.
In this way, if you are a Movistar customer and have contracted fiber and television service, you will only be able to see a rescaling in some channels that highlight the HD logo, whose quality leaves a lot to be desired. This means that the operator is still testing sending all broadcasts to HD format, so it would be using a gradual system to make it possible.
As reported in the Movistar Community, the most advisable thing is to watch all the DTT channels through the Smart TV’s own antenna, turning off the Movistar Plus+ decoder, so new HD channels will be added to incorporate them. natively on their respective dials. However, there is talk that this may take months to complete.
New channels in testing
Luckily, Movistar has already communicated that everything possible is being done to incorporate new channels and definitively jump to HD quality. Thanks to the information published in our forum, you can see that a new test of well-known DTT channels is being launched to transfer them to the new standard. These channels are:
- Paramount Network HD
- Energy HD
- FDF HD
- Divinity HD
- Boing HD
- DMAX HD
- THIRTEEN HD
- SX3-33HD
As you can see, most of them correspond to the multinational Mediaset, which would be preparing to launch all its HD content to Movistar Plus+. Let’s hope that the rest of the chains don’t take too long to join.
