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Digital terrestrial television in Estonia

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Digital terrestrial television in Estonia, was officially launched on 15 December 2006, when the operator Zuum TV launched its pay service on two multiplexes.[1] Transmissions are made with MPEG-4 AVC compression using the DVB-T standard. A DVB-T2 standard-based network (Multiplex 7) has been created for HD-quality TV picture transmission.[2]

In June 2007, Levira and ETV announced that they had agreed to launch an HDTV trial in July 2007.[3]

In November 2007, a third multiplex was launched, covering almost all of the country. This multiplex was to be used by free-to-air services, while the two existing national multiplexes would only carry pay channels. Hence the public channel ETV was transferred to the new multiplex.[4] At this time there are only five free-to-air channels (ETV, ETV2, ETV+, TallinnaTV, France 24) while others are pay-TV channels, offered by AS Elisa.[5]

As of January 2019, There are 3 High Definition and 39 Standard Definition channels on these multiplexes:[6]

LCN Channel Language MUX
1. ETV Estonian 1
2. ETV2 Estonian 1
3. Kanal 2 Estonian 6
4. TV3 Estonian 6
5. Tallinna TV Estonian 1
6. AntenniTV info Estonian 1
7. ETV+ Estonian

Russian

1
9. France 24 English 6
10 TVP World English 6
12. Duo 4 Estonian 2
13 TV6 Estonia Estonian 2
14. Duo 5 Estonian 3
15. Euronews English

Russian

3
16. Viasat History English

Russian

Estonian subtilties

6
18 Fox Life English

Russian
Estonian subtitles

3
19. Fox English

Russian
Estonian subtitles

3
20. Duo 3 English
Russian
2
21. Filmzone English

Russian

Estonian subtitles

3
22. Duo 6 English

Russian subtilties

2
23. RTL TV German 6
24. Filmzone+ English

Russian

Estonian subtitles

3
25. Investigation Discovery English

Russian
Estonian subtitles

2
26. Discovery Channel English

Russian

2
27. National Geographic Channel English

Russian
Estonian subtitles

3
28. Animal Planet English

Russian

2
29. History Channel English

Russian
Estonian subtitles

2
31. Kidzone TV Estonian

Russian

2
32. Pingviniukas Estonian

Russian

3
34 Eurosport English

Russian

2
35 Eurosport 2 English

Russian

3
36. Setanta Eurasia Russian

English

2
38. MyHits Estonian 3
39. TLC English

Russian

3
40. Travel English

Russian

6
43. RTR Planeta Russian 6
44. TV3 Plus Russian 2
45 PBK (Estonia) Russian 2
46. Ren-TV Estonia Russian 6
47. NTV Mir Russian 2
50. Hustler TV English 3
201 ETV HD Estonian

Russian Subtitle

7
202 ETV2 HD Estonian

Russian Subtitle

7
205 TallinnaTV HD Estonian 7

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Estonia - Official launch of DTT services". DigiTAG. 15 December 2006. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2007.
  2. ^ "Teenused telekanalitele". Levira (in Estonian). Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Levira and ETV agreed to start HD transmissions over DTT" (Press release). Levira. 4 June 2007. Archived from the original on 12 June 2007.
  4. ^ Third DTT mux for Estonia : Broadband TV News
  5. ^ "Terrestrial TV broadcasting". Levira. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  6. ^ "LEVIRA DTT" (PDF). Retrieved 29 January 2019.