Make sure your tv continues to work after Feb 14th....

https://euroweeklynews.com/2024/01/1...sh-television/

Good job I don't watch Spanish TV then

Surely nobody watches SD TV any more. It’s bad enough that there are so few 4K/UHD options apart from streaming.

It's not really about SD/HD, it's about moving from DVB-T to DVB-T2.

If you've got a TV from before 2016 then it's probably DVB-T which means either buying a new one or getting a DVB-T2 decoder box.

Those SD channels with a HD equivalent will also disappear with the changeover, those SD channels with no HD equivalent will either change to HD or disappear. 720p will still be allowed, many SD only channels might change over to that instead of 1080p.

If you already have a DVB-T2 TV you shouldn't need to do anything. You might find www.tdt1.com useful, it has a list of channels in every area and their frequencies.

Many of us can't afford to change all out TV's to HD - we have old ones that are working perfectly well. Also, our sky/satellite boxes are only SD as HD ones are very hard to find.

Sky satellite boxes will be the next thing to dwindle ….

Do these changes affect those of us that use android boxes to stream TV both Spanish and UK ?

Shouldn't. Only affect those who are watching Spanish Freeview through antenna on an older TV set.

Thanks I thought that

LJust yesterday I reset someone's TV and kit to just receive and or display SD or original HD. Mainly to reduce buffering but also due to the user reporting eye dryness.

I was taught years ago anyone over 50 watching a TV at home wont normally be able to tell the difference between them and a 4K let alone an 8K or UHD.

Since then it seems that it may also be damaging or annoying.... A recent peer reviewed publication concluded, tear break-up time significantly decreases in non-dry eye subjects after watching UHD TV and subjective ocular discomfort particularly increases in subjects over 50 or with dry-eye syndrome.

Technically as you will know and others have pointed out if SD is actually switched off a few with very old TVs may need to decoder...cost less than 5 euros...... and a very very few a new aerial but then only if they want to watch the Spanish channels via an aerial.

Best

Loco

This really does depend on a couple or more factors, size of the screen being most significant and also distance that the viewer is sitting from the screen. Whatever your age you can certainly tell the difference between 1080P (HD) and 4K on a large screen (assuming the content is actually 4K), they should be night and day in quality. Smaller screens I would agree the difference is hard to tell. Perhaps 'years ago' the screen sizes available today werent around.

Not so sure. We have a 48 inch TV which is HD (not any better than that). I struggle to see any difference between an SD film and an HD one

Viewing distance is vitally important for optimal viewing of 4K TVs. According to Sony, the correct viewing distance on a 85” 4K TV is 1.6m. It’s not a lot further for an HD TV.

48" is not big

The source can also make a difference, many of the streaming services or IPTV often claim to be HD and when its ends up on your TV its not.