[watty]

Originally Posted by warlikedave

Nope as in it will never happen - RTE would have to pay for show/programming rights for 70+ million people....I think the RTE piggy bank is already well and truly drained by now

Especially that now Ireland has its very own totally Free To Air spot on 9E Ka band. Better elevation and no Pay Platform middle man.

[Manc-Red]

Originally Posted by Mr. Rabbit

The HD pack is only £10 extra.

No RTE channels are free to air in NI.

Euro here in Dublin my man Wabbit...

RTE too can be viewed for free in many parts of the North.

[warlikedave]

Originally Posted by watty

Especially that now Ireland has its very own totally Free To Air spot on 9E Ka band. Better elevation and no Pay Platform middle man.

Fair point indeed - do ye ever think it could develope into something more than saorview backup/copy? Don't twoway and onwave use the same hotspot for their sat internet? And will it ever be possible to have one dish with two different lnbs feeding 9e and 28.2e into sat box with no real issue? (will save a few bob since ye wouldnt need an outdoor ariel as well as a dish)

[Mr. Rabbit]

Euro here in Dublin my man Wabbit...

Euros aren't quids, at least they aren't up here.

RTE too can be viewed for free in many parts of the North

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But not at 28.2 degrees east.

[Johnny Johnson]

Originally Posted by Mr. Rabbit

Euros aren't quids, at least they aren't up here.

The use of the "quid" carried over from the days of the punt. I know of a lot of people that use it.

[emo72]

speaking of euros, i was hoping this channel would be free to air for us in the 'public, cos we could watch dunphy et al in glorious HD. wouldnt that be awesome?

[ninja900]

Originally Posted by Johnny Johnson

The use of the "quid" carried over from the days of the punt. I know of a lot of people that use it.

Incidentally, nobody ever called it 'punt' before the euro came in. Except the BBC.

[warlikedave]

Originally Posted by emo72

speaking of euros, i was hoping this channel would be free to air for us in the 'public, cos we could watch dunphy et al in glorious HD. wouldnt that be awesome?

We dont have to worry about that yet since the rte dnnybrook studios are still broadcasting in SD

[Mr. Rabbit]

Originally Posted by Johnny Johnson

The use of the "quid" carried over from the days of the punt. I know of a lot of people that use it.

Well, you learn something new every day then.

To be nonest, I'd never heard it being called a quid but there you go.

[Mr. Rabbit]

Originally Posted by ninja900

Incidentally, nobody ever called it 'punt' before the euro came in. Except the BBC.

They did up here, BBC or not.

When going across the border we always had to get our "punts", although sterling was accepted.

Don't forget, ROI money was also acceptable currency in the north until the ROI broke the link with Sterling.

[ninja900]

You would have had a reason 'up there' to differentiate between the two different types of pounds. 'Down here' it was pounds (or in Dublinese, just 'pound', like officially it's 'euro' not 'euros'. 'Dat cost me ten powend' etc. )

I remember before the split you used to often find sterling coins in change here. That stopped quick enough after the break with sterling as people hoarded UK coins.

[Mr. Rabbit]

Originally Posted by ninja900

You would have had a reason 'up there' to differentiate between the two different types of pounds. 'Down here' it was pounds (or in Dublinese, just 'pound', like officially it's 'euro' not 'euros'. 'Dat cost me ten powend' etc. )

I remember before the split you used to often find sterling coins in change here. That stopped quick enough after the break with sterling as people hoarded UK coins.

Yep, those were the days Ninja.

A good 50% of change up here was ROI money before the link was broken.

I think my parents still still have some of the old ROI coins that we collected, both pre and post decimalisation. Like UK money, some of them were worth more than their face value !

[zg3409]

Originally Posted by warlikedave

Fair point indeed - do ye ever think it could develope into something more than saorview backup/copy? Don't twoway and onwave use the same hotspot for their sat internet? And will it ever be possible to have one dish with two different lnbs feeding 9e and 28.2e into sat box with no real issue? (will save a few bob since ye wouldnt need an outdoor ariel as well as a dish)

This can be done and is being done by people at the moment. Refer to the Saorsat thread. Kits are available on eBay.

[icdg]

Take the currency discussion elsewhere please...

[Prowetod]

Sorry if it's been asked already. Can you get this in the UK?