DVB-T MPEG 4 in Norvegia

While during the brisk introduction by DVB-T in Germany reductions had to be made, the range problems and thus a moderate image quality to pull, have other countries still waited. In smaller Norway waiting for the population might disburse itself: DVB-T is to offer owing to more modern technology in the future also highly soluble television broadcasts with three-dimensional sound there.


That is possible, since Norway did not set like Germany on MPEG-2, but on the more efficient MPEG-4 AVC (H.264). Thus cannot only more television station in dissolution of standard (SDTV) their program over DVB-T spread, also highly soluble digital television (HDTV) becomes so with comparatively small range need over antenna possible.

Of highly soluble pictures the range is not to be thought at present owing to the outdated MPEG-2 hardly with the German “over all television”, for the dissolution of standard is already enough. Straight one with sport broadcasts is good that to see. Decisive for the decision for MPEG-2 were among other things at that time still high costs of MPEG-4-Set-Top-Boxen, since the more efficient chips necessary for it were quite expensive. Now to MPEG-4 AVC one would change, all would be in Germany sold DVB T receivers to exchange.

As the enterprise announced Coding Technologies now, the Norwegian DVB-T will offer to also high-quality stereophonic sound and 5.1-Kanal-Raumklang - the enterprise supplies the AAC codec (“MPEG-4 aacPlus”) for it. Broadcasting offerers are to profit by the combination of MPEG-4 AVC with aacPlus the range available of a clearly more efficient use to transfer so Coding Technologies, which leads to “substantial cost savings per channel” and which possibility offers, a higher number of channels in the multiplexing.

Test runs for SDTV and HDTV DVB t with MPEG-4 AVC started in Norway in January 2007, the commercial start of the SDTV offer for September 2007 were announced. HDTV over DVB-T will start presumably later in Norway. Also PayTV offers are planned, them are over two further multiplexers to be offered. Also in former times Norway experimented already with DVB-T, left themselves however long time.

The necessary DTT Übertragungsnetzwerk establishes and operates the Telenor daughter Norkring, to at the end of of 2009 hopes the enterprise, from the policy required 95 per cent of the Norwegian households to reach, among them also such, which do not have satellite or cable receipt due to their situation. According to Norwegian government the provided frequencies are to permit 15 to 36 digital television stations, dependent on technology and associated services. In the first quarter 2008 the similar antenna television is then switched off.