Digital Terrestrial Television
Digital terrestrial television was officially launched in the country in March 2006, initially only carrying DR1, DR2 and TV 2. The analogue broadcasts were shut down on 31 October 2009.
As of February 2008, only one national multiplex is available, broadcasting DR1, DR2, TV 2 and a channel shared by DR Update and sign language simulcast of DR/TV2 news using the DVB-T technology and MPEG-2 compression in 64-QAM mode.
In November 2009 the terrestrial analogue TV service was shut down and replaced with 3 DVB-T multiplexes, to be joined by a fourth in November 2010.
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