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TV3 HD Testing

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  • 21-07-2015 7:26pm
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    Charles Slane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭


    Testing on 11.758 H, 29.500, 3/4, DVB-S2, QPSK (3881)

    Now carrying EPG data for 'TV3 HD'. Picture is not what's on TV3 currently. No audio as yet.


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    jimbo2007
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭jimbo2007


    Charles Slane wrote: »
    Testing on 11.758 H, 29.500, 3/4, DVB-S2, QPSK (3881)

    Now carrying EPG data for 'TV3 HD'. Picture is not what's on TV3 currently. No audio as yet.

    Keep an eye on it. Thanks for the info.


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    lgs 4
    Registered Users Posts: 661 ✭✭✭lgs 4


    Charles Slane wrote: »
    Testing on 11.758 H, 29.500, 3/4, DVB-S2, QPSK (3881)

    Now carrying EPG data for 'TV3 HD'. Picture is not what's on TV3 currently. No audio as yet.

    Bleeding sky again subsidizing HD channels :mad:


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    Red Silurian
    Registered Users Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Red Silurian


    Charles Slane wrote: »
    Testing on 11.758 H, 29.500, 3/4, DVB-S2, QPSK (3881)

    Now carrying EPG data for 'TV3 HD'. Picture is not what's on TV3 currently. No audio as yet.

    Free to air or sky sub needed?


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭h7nlrp2v0g5u48


    colmtheperson wrote: »
    Free to air or sky sub needed?
    At the moment it's showing Sky Premiere HD so you will need a HD sub but once it switches to TV3HD you may be able to watch it without a HD sub. As TV3 receive funding from the BAI and holds PSB status it would be outrageous if it was put behind a HD pay wall.


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    ftakeith
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    natashaob6 wrote: »
    At the moment it's showing Sky Premiere HD so you will need a HD sub but once it switches to TV3HD you may be able to watch it without a HD sub. As TV3 receive funding from the BAI and holds PSB status it would be outrageous if it was put behind a HD pay wall.

    TV3hd on sky should appear around 19th aug for the new season of uefa champions league live football or the 13th Aug 2015 for the exclusive uefa super cup game


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    Rizzo the Rat
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    This is for the Rugby World Cup in Sept which TV3 have the rights for in Ireland. They said they hoped to have TV3 HD up and running for it. TV3/3e have lost the Europa League coverage.


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    irishchris
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    natashaob6 wrote: »
    At the moment it's showing Sky Premiere HD so you will need a HD sub but once it switches to TV3HD you may be able to watch it without a HD sub. As TV3 receive funding from the BAI and holds PSB status it would be outrageous if it was put behind a HD pay wall.

    Rte is a psb but has been behind a pay wall for years??


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    MBSnr
    Registered Users Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭MBSnr


    irishchris wrote: »
    Rte is a psb but has been behind a pay wall for years??

    Not quite what he means I believe. RTE2 HD is 'free' as a basic Sky sub will allow you to view it. Hopefully TV3 HD is the same and will not require a Sky HD sub to view it....


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    jimbo2007
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭jimbo2007


    Thanks. Please let us know when TV3 actually appears on this "3881" channel.


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    Joo0
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    Any news on saorview?


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    galtee boy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭galtee boy


    Joo0 wrote: »
    Any news on saorview?

    TV3 in HD on Saorview ? Snowballs chance in hell !


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    total former
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    natashaob6 wrote: »
    At the moment it's showing Sky Premiere HD so you will need a HD sub but once it switches to TV3HD you may be able to watch it without a HD sub. As TV3 receive funding from the BAI and holds PSB status it would be outrageous if it was put behind a HD pay wall.

    Public service obligations don't extend to HD channels though. It's surely between TV3 and Sky how it gets distributed.


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    tomslick
    Registered Users Posts: 546 ✭✭✭tomslick


    Looks like it is on "normal" HD encription, meaning it won't open on non-skyHD boxes


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    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,571 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Which cannot output a HD signal anyway?


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    tomslick
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    icdg wrote: »
    Which cannot output a HD signal anyway?

    I meant non-sky boxes ie VU's which use valid HD subs but won't decrypt the HD channel. Unlike "un-normal" Sky HD encryption used by RTE HD and the BT sports.


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    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,406 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    tomslick wrote: »
    I meant non-sky boxes ie VU's which use valid HD subs but won't decrypt the HD channel. Unlike "un-normal" Sky HD encryption used by RTE HD and the BT sports.

    very dodgy ground there.


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    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,732 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    irishgeo wrote: »
    very dodgy ground there.

    It's not dodgy if you are using a valid subscription. Not everybody with a VU+ is a pirate.


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    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,406 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    lertsnim wrote: »
    It's not dodgy if you are using a valid subscription. Not everybody with a VU+ is a pirate.

    your breaking the terms of your sky contract regardless.

    mainly.
    5. The Viewing Card
    (a) The Viewing Card acts as a key so that you can unlock (unencrypt) encrypted digital satellite services (such as
    the Service). Having a Viewing Card does not mean you have a right to receive the Service. You are only entitled to
    one Viewing Card per Sky digital Subscription.
    (b) SSSL continues to own the Viewing Card after it is sent to you and, if SSSL asks you to, you must return it after
    this Contract ends or when a replacement is sent to you.
    (c) Only you may use the Viewing Card which SSSL sends you. You can only use the Viewing Card at your Address
    with the Box for which it is first authorised by SSSL     to receive encrypted digital satellite services. You must
    only use it for private viewing purposes. You must not use it for any commercial or business purpose or in any
    premises other than your Address.
    (d) The Viewing Card must not be used outside the country (either UK or Republic of


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    #20
    lertsnim
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    Hardly the dodgy area you were hinting at.


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    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,406 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Hardly the dodgy area you were hinting at.

    nope but the talk of either way is banned here.


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    lgs 4
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    Bleeding sky again subsidizing HD channels


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    galtee boy
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    lgs 4 wrote: »
    Bleeding sky again subsidizing HD channels

    Sky is a business. If, as we suspect, that they are providing a HD service for TV3 at little or no cost to TV3, then they are perfectly entitled to make sure that only Sky HD subscribers can access the channel. He who pays the piper, calls the tune ! What TV3 should be doing in addition, is providing this HD service on Saorview too, but they won't pay 2RN.


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    h7nlrp2v0g5u48
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    galtee boy wrote: »
    Sky is a business. If, as we suspect, that they are providing a HD service for TV3 at little or no cost to TV3, then they are perfectly entitled to make sure that only Sky HD subscribers can access the channel. He who pays the piper, calls the tune ! What TV3 should be doing in addition, is providing this HD service on Saorview too, but they won't pay 2RN.
    With Liberty Global more or less the new owners of TV3 maybe they will have a more positive attitude towards Saorview and launch TV3 HD on the platform.


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    irishfeen
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    TV3 will be in trouble with BAI funded programming if the broadcast it in SD or HD behind the paywall. RTÉ tried it with RTÉ2HD initially but complaints to the BAI revesed the decision ... I think it might take official complaints this time round too.


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    murpho999
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    With UPC owning TV3 now is it not likely it will be available on their platform first for a while as they try to woo customers over?


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    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭mikeym


    murpho999 wrote: »
    With UPC owning TV3 now is it not likely it will be available on their platform first for a while as they try to woo customers over?

    Not everybody has access to UPC cable.


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    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    I do not think TV3 HD is any more attractive than TV3 SD. I do not seeing its availability in HD affecting their subscription decisions in anyway.

    In analogue days, TV3 did not even make their signal available to 20% of the population, so what is new?


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    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,732 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    murpho999 wrote: »
    With UPC owning TV3 now is it not likely it will be available on their platform first for a while as they try to woo customers over?

    If it had decent content that might work.


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    dr.fuzzenstein
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    Sam Russell wrote: »
    I do not think TV3 HD is any more attractive than TV3 SD. I do not seeing its availability in HD affecting their subscription decisions in anyway.

    In analogue days, TV3 did not even make their signal available to 20% of the population, so what is new?

    It's a choice of watching utter crap in SD or HD. I'm afraid it won't look better either way. I have Freesat and Saeorview, sometimes I go to the Irish channels on a Friday or Saturday night. Once I filled three buckets with vomit, I go back to UK telly.


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    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,571 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    murpho999 wrote: »
    With UPC owning TV3 now is it not likely it will be available on their platform first for a while as they try to woo customers over?

    They don't own them yet and the plans for TV3 HD were in place before the deal was done.


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