Austria to migrate to DVB-T2 in August 2014

Migrating from DVB-T to DVB-T2 and forgeting about the much bigger gain that can be had: migrating from MPEG2 or AVC to HEVC by waiting one year: seems like a pretty strange plan. Of course there is some installed base for HD-T2, but that can hardly be the justification. There must be some institutional lobbying abberation behind this one. Guess the picture below says it all.

Austria to migrate to DVB-T2 in August 2014.