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  • 25-07-2014 11:27pm
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    eugenecanna
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭


    Any word when on sky platform


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    #2
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,728 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    eugenecanna wrote: »
    Any word when on sky platform

    No


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    emmetlego
    Registered Users Posts: 4,650 ✭✭✭emmetlego


    I just emailed RTE about this, will let you know the replies (if any)


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    scart
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭scart


    emmetlego wrote: »
    I just emailed RTE about this, will let you know the replies (if any)

    Any reply from RTE?


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    Beamobhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Beamobhoy


    scart wrote: »
    Any reply from RTE?

    If it's anything like the reply I got a few months ago, it'd be "ask Sky".
    On asking Sky, "ask Rte".

    Idiots, one and all.


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    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,705 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Hopefully it's on before Love/Hate starts back.


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    Beamobhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Beamobhoy


    Yeah and let's hope we get TG4 HD before Ros Na Run comes back.......... ;)


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    same ol sh1te
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    eugenecanna wrote: »
    Any word when on sky platform

    I think you'll be waiting, it was posted here in a thread before that there is no space left on the transponder for another hd channel. Do a search here for RTE and you'll see the transponder is full: http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-28.2E.php


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    Kurn
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Kurn


    here is my response from the a few months back if it helps
    Thank you for your e-mail. RTE 1 HD will become available on the Sky platform in the future, but as yet no date has been confirmed.
    Please keep an eye on the Sky website.It will also be widely advertised when the time comes.


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    No space left? ****ing ridicules.

    The British get all their HD channels, more HD channels than us. Then when it comes time for our national broadcaster to join the 21 century.


    Sorry. No room for you. :rolleyes:


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    JDxtra
    Registered Users Posts: 5,876 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    It's true. The deal with Sky going back years is for one transponder where they pay for their encryption.

    RTE want more HD channels? No problem - but they'll have to lease new transponder space and pay for Sky encryption.

    The main UK channels are FTA so don't need to pay for encryption, just EPG placement costs.

    Before this deal, the first channel on an Irish Sky Digital box was 106 (Sky One). It was like this for years.


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    basill
    Registered Users Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭basill


    Yep why copy a tried and tested method like the Brits have had in place for years with freesat/freeview when you can use a halfway house method making people go out and spend loads of money on new kit and let someone else control your destiny. Surely that's the Irish way is it not?


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    Kensington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Kensington


    basill wrote: »
    Yep why copy a tried and tested method like the Brits have had in place for years with freesat/freeview when you can use a halfway house method making people go out and spend loads of money on new kit and let someone else control your destiny. Surely that's the Irish way is it not?
    It's completely different situation.

    BBC/ITV buy programming rights for ~63 million UK residents, overspill into ~4 million Irish is a negligible side effect.
    RTÉ buy programming rights for ~4 million Irish residents, overspill into ~63 million UK residents isn't quite the same.

    Therefore it's cheaper for the BBC/ITV to pay for the extra rights to cover the overspill and broadcast completely unencrypted, than to have to pay and maintain an encrypted platform.

    RTÉ don't have the same luxury, if the buy rights on the basis of a ~4 million population, they have to protect from overspill to the UK, over 10 times the size of its purchased rights base. Unencrypted simply isn't an option, unfortunately, as they'd need to include the ~63 million pop. overspill in negotations, but, neither is the cost of establishing themselves on an encrypted "Free to View" platform for what would ultimately be a very small number of users.


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    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,728 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    basill wrote: »
    Yep why copy a tried and tested method like the Brits have had in place for years with freesat/freeview when you can use a halfway house method making people go out and spend loads of money on new kit and let someone else control your destiny. Surely that's the Irish way is it not?

    You'd be happy to pay the massive increase in the TV licence to cover the cost of programming rights?


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    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    If Sky want RTE HD then let them pay for it ..... and let the subscribers pay Sky for it.

    There is no reason whatsoever for RTE to want it on the Sky platform.

    ... and certainly no reason for non-Sky subscribers to subsidise it .....


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    If Sky want RTE HD then let them pay for it ..... and let the subscribers pay Sky for it.

    There is no reason whatsoever for RTE to want it on the Sky platform.

    ... and certainly no reason for non-Sky subscribers to subsidise it .....

    My TV license is paying for rte hd. As a Sky subscriber I have the equipment necessary to watch rte hd.

    Why should I go to the added expense of getting a saorview box and aerial?


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    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    mad muffin wrote: »
    My TV license is paying for rte hd. As a Sky subscriber I have the equipment necessary to watch rte hd.

    Why should I go to the added expense of getting a saorview box and aerial?

    No you do not have the required equipment.
    If you did you could receive what the licence is paying for ...... DTT and/or Saorsat.

    That you choose to subscribe to a pay TV service is not relevant.


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    No you do not have the required equipment.
    If you did you could receive what the licence is paying for ...... DTT and/or Saorsat.

    That you choose to subscribe to a pay TV service is not relevant.

    My TV license says otherwise.


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    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    mad muffin wrote: »
    My TV license says otherwise.

    Interesting licence.


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    same ol sh1te
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    mad muffin wrote: »
    My TV license says otherwise.

    Please explain, I'm curious


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    Interesting licence.
    same ol sh1te wrote: »
    Please explain, I'm curious

    As a Sky subscriber, without an aerial or any other means to receive terrestrial channels besides Sky. What would happen if I stopped paying my TV license?


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    evilivor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭evilivor


    mad muffin wrote: »
    As a Sky subscriber, without an aerial or any other means to receive terrestrial channels besides Sky. What would happen if I stopped paying my TV license?

    Licence is a charge for having a tv in your house - you need to pay it whether you watch Sky, RTE or just put your flower vase on it.


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    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,398 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    mad muffin wrote: »
    As a Sky subscriber, without an aerial or any other means to receive terrestrial channels besides Sky. What would happen if I stopped paying my TV license?

    nothing as the tv licence is not for RTE directly but for the equipment to receive it. You still have the TV which is a device for receiving broadcast TV.


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    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    mad muffin wrote: »
    As a Sky subscriber, without an aerial or any other means to receive terrestrial channels besides Sky. What would happen if I stopped paying my TV license?

    A licence (permission) to receive broadcast transmissions does not guarantee anything.

    So if you have equipment that is covered by the licence and you do not have a licence then you are liable to prosecution under the terms outlined in the act.

    Please quote what part of your licence you referred to when you posted
    My TV license says otherwise.


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    same ol sh1te
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    mad muffin wrote: »
    As a Sky subscriber, without an aerial or any other means to receive terrestrial channels besides Sky. What would happen if I stopped paying my TV license?

    Being able to revive RTE is not a condition of the licence. You pay the licence fee even if you only watch DVDs


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    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    mad muffin wrote: »
    As a Sky subscriber, without an aerial or any other means to receive terrestrial channels besides Sky. What would happen if I stopped paying my TV license?

    A licence to receive broadcast transmissions does not guarantee anything.

    So if you have equipment that is covered by the licence and you do not have a licence then you are liable to prosecution under the terms outlined in the act.

    Please quote what part of your licence you referred to when you posted
    My TV license says otherwise.


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    We'll they can **** off then. I'll pay my license when I can get all the channels that are provided.


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    #28
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    mad muffin wrote: »
    We'll they can **** off then. I'll pay my license when I can get all the channels that are provided.

    Sponger used to be the term used I believe.


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    same ol sh1te
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    mad muffin wrote: »
    We'll they can **** off then. I'll pay my license when I can get all the channels that are provided.

    Everyone in the county can get RTE One HD, you just choose a pay TV system that doesn't feel it's worth the extra to provide it. Wishing you good luck with your crusade


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    FRIENDO
    Registered Users Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭FRIENDO


    I have also contacted RTE in the past about getting RTE 1 HD on the Saorsat platform.
    Hard to understand why its not on Saorsat yet.:confused:


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    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,881 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    mad muffin wrote: »
    We'll they can **** off then. I'll pay my license when I can get all the channels that are provided.
    So why can you not stick up an appropriate aerial or a dish for Saorsat in order to get RTE free as opposed to paying Sky for the privilege?


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