SRG television programs in the Engadin soon to be digital only
In the Engadin, SRG idée suisse television channels will only be available digitally via antenna starting November 13, when analog broadcasts will be shut down.
In the Engadin, SRG idée suisse television channels can only be received digitally via antennas from November 13, when the analog service will be switched off. In the rest of Graubünden, the analog transmitters will remain in operation until October 2008. The digital transmitter network will cover the whole of Switzerland from next fall and ensure reception of SRG television channels via antenna in higher quality. After Ticino, the Engadin is the second region in Switzerland to definitively switch to digital terrestrial coverage (Werbewoche reported).
In the Lower Engadine, the first three digital transmitters were already put into operation five years ago for test purposes, as Hans Strassmann, Head of Technology and IT at SRG, said at a media orientation in Chur on Wednesday. For the past three years, the new technology has been used throughout the entire Graubünden high valley. Digital broadcasting improves coverage and enhances picture and sound quality, he said at the SRG idée suisse and Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha media event, according to the SDA news agency.
From July 18, in addition to SF 1 and SF zwei, the channels TSR 1 and TSI 1 as well as SF info with repeats of the Rhaeto-Romanic news magazine "Telesguard" can also be received digitally. Viewers who already receive the digital channels today will have to start a search run in order to detect the new frequencies.
If you want to receive digital signals via an antenna, you need an additional device, the so-called "set-top box", which must be connected between the receiver and the antenna.
In the Lower Engadine, the first three digital transmitters were already put into operation five years ago for test purposes, as Hans Strassmann, Head of Technology and IT at SRG, said at a media orientation in Chur on Wednesday. For the past three years, the new technology has been used throughout the entire Graubünden high valley. Digital broadcasting improves coverage and enhances picture and sound quality, he said at the SRG idée suisse and Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha media event, according to the SDA news agency.
From July 18, in addition to SF 1 and SF zwei, the channels TSR 1 and TSI 1 as well as SF info with repeats of the Rhaeto-Romanic news magazine "Telesguard" can also be received digitally. Viewers who already receive the digital channels today will have to start a search run in order to detect the new frequencies.
If you want to receive digital signals via an antenna, you need an additional device, the so-called "set-top box", which must be connected between the receiver and the antenna.
