Although the preliminary phases of the 2021/2022 Champions League have already started, which the common one of the fans of the beautiful game expects, it will not arrive until September 14 with the start of the group phase of this competition. As always, there will be thousands of people looking for options to watch the Champions League on television. In the absence of knowing if Orange will continue to offer football next season (everything indicates that it will continue), Movistar will begin to offer more Champions League matches in 4K , notably raising the figure of 8 matches per season that we have been able to see so far.
Atlético, Real Madrid, Sevilla, Barcelona and Villarreal will be the five teams that will compete in this edition of the top club competition in Europe. Villareal does it as the current winner of the Europa League, something that will also make them play the final of the European Super Cup on August 11 in Belfast against the winner of the Champions League, in this case, Chelsea. That match will be seen in the Movistar Champions League.
Movistar Champions League will have more 4K games
For several years, the Movistar website has displayed the following message: “the best selection of 8 UEFA Champions League matches in 4K in Movistar Champions League UHD (dial 441)” . It was curious that all the Real Madrid and FC Barcelona matches of LaLiga Santander could be seen in UHD quality on Movistar LaLiga UHD (dials 440 and 443) , but only 8 from the entire Champions League. Obviously, these were reserved for the knockout phase, although it was impossible to offer all of them.
When asking Movistar about this, they confirmed that this limitation of 8 games in 4K only applied until the Champions League 2020-2021, but that, from 2021-2022, the figure would rise significantly. The matches will be broadcast on Movistar Liga de Campeones in HD 1080i resolution, Movistar Liga de Campeones UHD in UHD quality 2160p 50fps for customers with a UHD decoder and compatible 4K TV and now also on Movistar Liga de Campeones 1 UHD.
Precisely, this channel, under the name of “M. LCampeones 1 UHD ” is already being tested by the blue operator. As is usual, the channels are kept for a few days or weeks in a test phase that does not allow them to be viewed from the decoder, but that they are visible using other methods.
From this, we were able to confirm that Eurosport 4K would be the new channel to watch the Olympic Games in UHD resolution. This is also in the testing phase and it is expected that, in a matter of days, users with compatible packages will be activated (in addition to having the operator’s 4K decoder).
