Digital television in Poland
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[edit] Poland
[edit] Terrestrial
In April 2004, first DVB-T transmitter near Rzeszów started operation, and local TVP division started to market set-top boxes allowing to receive it. As of February 2007, there are totally 5 DVB-T transmitters operating in Poland. They are all still in test state, and only three main TVP channels are available in digital on terrestrial. It is expected that DVB-T will become available for commercial broadcasters in near future. However, as of February 2007, there is no law in legal force allowing for it.
[edit] Cable
Some of the biggest cable operators started to provide DVB-C channels in few cities. However, most of the cable networks currently operating in Poland are purely analogue.
[edit] IPTV
Lately, Telekomunikacja Polska introduced a new option to its Neostrada offer, the Videostrada. It allows to receive digital TV, available are most of Cyfra+ channels (the platform is known as Cyfra+DSL), as well as video on demand. It is currently available only in few biggest cities in Poland.
[edit] Satellite
In 1998, two DVB-S providers, Cyfra+ and Wizja TV (later these two merged into one platform, the New Cyfra+), started operation. 1999 saw the introduction of another platform, Polsat 2 Cyfrowy (later renamed to Polsat Cyfrowy and finally Cyfrowy Polsat), owned by Polsat, the biggest Polish commercial TV network. These platforms become very popular, and today, there are only few Polish channels available on analogue satellite, and all of the remaining broadcasters switched to digital. However, most of the satellite broadcasts in Poland are in SDTV resolution.
On June 24, 2006, ITI, the largest media company in Poland, announced that it will launch a bouquet of 3 HDTV channels by satellite in the Fall of 2006. It has also been rumoured that TVP, Poland's public TV, will also begin broadcasting its main channels in HDTV to ITI's reviewers.
On October 12, 2006, ITI launched the n platform with few HD channels available, as well as - also new in Poland - video on demand functionality. Later, in December 2006, Cyfra+ also started HD broadcasts. Cyfrowy Polsat plans to start HD broadcasts in second half of 2007.
[edit] Mobile
Several TV channels, as well as video on demand, are available in Polish mobile telephony networks. There are no currently operating dedicated mobile TV transmitters.
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