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Digital Terrestrial Television DTT / DVB-T - in Israel |
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IDAN Plus - the new DTT - digital terrestrial television service in Israel
IDAN : Hebrew acronym for Israel Accessible Digital Channels
ASO date 30.3.2011
Regular transmissions started August 2nd, 2009 on channel UHF 26 in central Israel and on channel UHF 29 in the North and in Eilat area. The initial system consists of 13 main transmitters
Country-wide analogue switch-off took place on March 31, 2011
In some remote areas satellite reception is required even after final ASO ( via AMOS satellite)
Currently there is one multiplex with 5 channels : IBA 1, IBA 33, Channel 2, Channel 10 and the Knesset Channel. A second multiplex with more channels ( icluding IBA TV1 HD ) including all national and regional radio stations will be added following the ASO during 2011 and a third is planned for 2012
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The IDAN Plus service is aggregated and distributed under the responsibility of the 2nd Authority for Radio and Television in israel and the transmitters network is run by the engineering department of BEZEQ telecom
Broadcasting standards :
Video : MPEG-4
Audio : AAC-HE V.2
EPG for 7 days
Closed captions including real time subtitling in most live Hebrew programming provided by IBA 1, Channel 2 and Channel 10 .
The average STB costs 300NIS |
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