Mediaset has announced that from September 7 intends to encrypt their channels on the Sky platform. From that moment on Rete 4, Canale 5 and Italia 1 will be visible only on terrestrial and satellite TIVUSAT.
The decision of Mediaset to encrypt the vision of its channels from Sky bouquet - says Peter Jordan, National President of Adiconsum - harms those users who see the television only via the satellite platform, users, to continue to see the Mediaset channels, will be forced to buy the decoder TIVUSAT, spending money, and not exercising its right to use the transmission technology most like.
The barrier technology deployed by Mediaset - says Jordan - is a throwback that, at the time the band super-fast, always connected smartphones and globalization is not only anachronistic, but it hides something else.
Behind the decision to Mediaset to encrypt their channels actually - says Jordan - there are other reasons, such as no longer wanted to grant free SKY the opportunity to enter the main Mediaset channels in the bouquet of pay TV satellite (4.5 positions and 6). Since the satellite pay-TV platform technology is, however, transmission by satellite, here are cut off all who see television only with the satellite platform.
In a Europe that asks us to have a digital single market also in electronic communication - continues Jordan - the decision of Mediaset is absurd. It is time for the NRA - Jordan continues - to clarify protecting the rights of consumers and television companies. It must be clarified once and for all what and when a television broadcast may be encrypted. The choice of encoding can not be used for competitive reasons or to favor a transmission platform to the detriment of another (satellite versus the terrestrial and vice versa)!
Since encryption is normally used to pay channels or programs for those who have not acquired the rights to broadcast outside the country (for example, sporting events only visible on Earth or on TIVUSAT):
- Why Mediaset should encrypt the entire schedule of its channels, thus preventing the vision with a simple decoder free satellite?
- Because you would only need to see the Mediaset channels with the decoder compatible with TIVUSAT?
- Why Mediaset would prevent our compatriots residing in Europe to see its canals?
- Why some channels broadcast on the terrestrial, are fully encrypted and only visible on satellite with TIVUSAT? Why TIVUSAT created to ensure the vision of satellite terrestrial channels to those who have the signal from the ground, has access costs high in order to cover the costs of encryption?
- Who really checks whether the transmitted contents are acquired only for the national level?
Enough of this anarchy - says Jordan - AGCOM clarify rights and responsibilities of those who manage the bouquets television and who has to pay to be included in the numbering of the bouquet and check the type of criptazioni underway
Adiconsum - concludes Giordano - asks the NRA for the immediate opening of a round table with consumer associations to develop as soon as possible the necessary resolutions to regulate the industry. We ask the NRA to block the decision of Mediaset until there are clear rules.