The options to watch Euro2020 on TV, streaming excluded, are three: here are pros and cons of each of them.
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Peppe Croce, journalist since 2008, deals with electronic devices and new technologies applied to the automotive world. He joined Libero Tecnologia in 2018.
Those who own a 4K Smart TV this year will be able to enjoy watching two major sporting events in very high definition: Euro 2020 and the Tokyo 2021 Olympics. Both sporting events will be broadcast in full 4K, in addition to HD.
Those who don’t yet have a 4K TV, however, would do well to discover the 4K Smart TVs for Euro 2020 suggested by Libero Tecnologia. The TV, however, is not enough to watch the European Football Championship: you also need a decoder. And here the possibilities become three: a normal digital terrestrial decoder, a Sky digital satellite decoder or a Tivùsat digital satellite decoder. With the first and last of these options, it is possible to watch all of Italy’s matches, and a few others, for free. To see them all, however, you need a Sky system and the corresponding subscription.
Euro 2020 on digital terrestrial
Watching Euro 2020 on digital terrestrial will be the most popular choice in Italy, because digital terrestrial technology is in fact predominant in the homes of Italians.
The RAI has purchased the TV rights for the transmission of 27 matches (including all those that will play the Italian national team). These matches will be broadcast free to air: anyone who has a TV with a decoder (built-in or external) for digital terrestrial television that already picks up RAI channels will have no problem viewing the matches.
Euro 2020 on Sky
The Sky option is the only one of the three that requires payment: the satellite platform has purchased the rights to all 51 matches of the European soccer championship and will broadcast them on Sky Sport to its subscribers.
To watch the matches it is necessary to subscribe to the Sky Calcio package, the same package that from next season will also include 3 out of 10 Serie A matches (those who want to see them all will have to subscribe to Dazn). The Sky Calcio package, together with the Sky TV package, costs 45 euros per month but is on offer for 30.90 euros for the first 18 months.
Of course you need a satellite system to pick up the signal transmitted by Sky via the Eutelsat Hot Bird satellite.
Euro 2020 on tivùsat
The third option to watch Euro 2020 on TV is always through the Eutelsat Hot Bird satellite, but it is free: it is tivùsat, the satellite platform on which viewers can find all the channels broadcast on digital terrestrial, plus some additional goodies.
On tivùsat, therefore, users can also see the 27 matches broadcast free to air by RAI. They will also be able to see the RAI 4K channel, which will broadcast all the matches for which the State TV has bought the rights, in very high resolution. Also in this case, therefore, the matches will be seen in clear. That is, free of charge, if we exclude the small initial cost of purchasing the Tivùsat decoder and the smart cam.
Tivùsat, among other things, starting from this weekend will begin a traveling information campaign in three major Italian cities (Milan, Genoa and Naples), through which it will disseminate information among citizens on the imminent transition to the second-generation digital satellite standard DVB-S2 (twin, via satellite, of the terrestrial DVB-T2).
This weekend the tivùsat mascot, the chameleon UGO, together with three hostesses wearing the uniform of the Italian national team will be in Piazza Argentina in Milan. From June 11 to 13 they will be in Piazza De Ferrari in Genoa, from June 18 to 20 they will be in Piazza Garibaldi in Naples.