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Aertel Down till August 3rd

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  • 20-07-2010 4:57pm
    #1
    pa990
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭


    Digital Aertel will be unavailable until 3rd August


    so it says when i try and load aertel


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    #2
    Mayo Exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Mayo Exile


    Yes. Same here. Here's the message:

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    #3
    Gerry Wicklow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,543 ✭✭✭Gerry Wicklow


    Considering they still advertise auditions for the 'All Ireland Talent show' in Aug/Sept 2009 and often get their programme listings wrong, is it that big of a loss?:p


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    #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    On now....via DDT


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    #5
    pa990
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭pa990


    mike65 wrote: »
    On now....via DDT

    nope. still getting the b&w message from spur hill


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    #6
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Still on for me (from Mt Leinster I assume)


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    #7
    radiospan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,329 ✭✭✭radiospan


    For me, it now says it will be down until Monday, August 9th


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    #8
    Mayo Exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Mayo Exile


    Yes, same message from Clermont Carn too. Off until August 9th.


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


    mike65 wrote: »
    Still on for me (from Mt Leinster I assume)


    What are you seeing when you load aertel? Its a central feed from the headend in donnybrook so everyone gets the exact same thing.


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    #10
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Then what am I looking at? I'm watching RTE on DTT.


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


    mike65 wrote: »
    Then what am I looking at? I'm watching RTE on DTT.

    Channels are working fine, no change there. Call up aertel though and you should get a message similar to that posted above.


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I'm getting no message and but I getting aertel. I'll be back with a time/dated pix in a moment!


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    #13
    Mayo Exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Mayo Exile


    New message:

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    "Old" Aertel mike65 is on about maybe?

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    #14
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Ah, thankyou. We are now all on the same page. Where is this new fangled aertel hiding? When I press the button on my remote I get the trad aertel


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    Mayo Exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Mayo Exile


    mike65 wrote: »
    Ah, thankyou. We are now all on the same page. Where is this new fangled aertel hiding? When I press the button on my remote I get the trad aertel

    Roughly looks like this. It's a screenshot from January. Layout has changed a bit since however. Depending on what type of telly you have, you can switch between both versions. My LG tv can do this. It's not available at the moment, just the message.

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    #16
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Righty-ho. Something to look forward to I guess. :p


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


    Well that clears that up! Are you using a Samsung TV by any chance mike? They seem to prioritise analogue teletext over MHEG so on RTÉ One and RTÉ TWO where you get the old teletext version, alongside the MHEG version, pressing text on your remote launches the teletext version, not MHEG.


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    #18
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Samsung it is yep. I just had a look at the user manual. It gives no clue as to accessing this DTT text service.


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    Namabillion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 647 ✭✭✭Namabillion


    mike65 wrote: »
    Samsung it is yep. I just had a look at the user manual. It gives no clue as to accessing this DTT text service.

    Same on my Phillips. I am just getting analogue.


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    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,005 ✭✭✭emaherx


    probably need to set TV to UK instead of Ireland to access mheg5 base text as it is the same as Freeview uses. This won't affect TV's ability to decode MPEG4 for normal TV viewing.


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    Namabillion
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    emaherx wrote: »
    probably need to set TV to UK instead of Ireland to access mheg5 base text as it is the same as Freeview uses. This won't affect TV's ability to decode MPEG4 for normal TV viewing.

    Did that but still only recieving analogue channels with analogue aertel. Epg isin't working either.


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    #22
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,005 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Namabillion wrote: »
    Did that but still only recieving analogue channels with analogue aertel. Epg isin't working either.


    You mean you don't receive Digital Channels at all?
    Do you receive sound with no picture? or nothing?

    If you have sound with no picture then your TV is not MPEG4 capable.
    If you are receiving no digital signal then maybe you are not in an area with digital coverage or at least your aerial is not aligned to a transmitter with digital signal.

    What part of the country are you in and do you know what transmitter you are receiving analouge from?

    The other posters in this thread are receiving Digital Picture fine just not Digital Text Service (Aertel).


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    #23
    Namabillion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 647 ✭✭✭Namabillion


    Not receiving digital at all. I'm in west cork so i think i'm getting analogue from Mullaghanish. I have sky working fine so i have the channels i was just curious about what is available through DDT and see what it is like. I guess i'll have to wait a few months. :(


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    #24
    pa990
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭pa990


    it's back up again.
    When it loads, just ignore the black and white message, and type in 101


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    #25
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,005 ✭✭✭emaherx


    pa990 wrote: »
    it's back up again.
    When it loads, just ignore the black and white message, and type in 101
    You have way too much time on your hands :)


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    #26
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Just switched my country to UK and so had to do a tedious rescan, its loading....for the last 3 minutes!

    Working now, clearly a long way from the finished article.


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    #27
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    pa990 wrote: »
    Digital Aertel
    Namabillion wrote: »
    analogue aertel.

    No such thing as "Analouge" Aertel :D


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    #28
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 6,005 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    No such thing as "Analouge" Aertel :D

    that may be true :rolleyes:, but there is a diffrent Aertel provided with the Analouge Service than the Digital Service.

    And since all radio waves are Analouge in nature there is no Digital signals being received by any of our aerials.:eek:


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    #29
    Namabillion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 647 ✭✭✭Namabillion


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    No such thing as "Analouge" Aertel :D

    You know what I mean. Old Aertel that the most of the country still gets


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    #30
    Mayo Exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Mayo Exile


    Format of message changed. Some colour button options now available.

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    Pressing blue gives a help page:

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    Green gives an index page:

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    Content available too in these menus. Haven't looked at them all.


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    #31
    homelink
    Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭homelink


    I have a Triax combo box (ST-HD 527Ci).it is supposed to have MHEG5 for interactive services but will only show the old teletext.Any ideas?Tried changing the Country status to UK France etc. but no joy.


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