rte1 hd

lertsnim wrote: »

How am I being a smart ass? If your promoting the idea of getting rid of another channel so one that is freely available terrestrially can be shown instead isn't desparately wanting a service then what is?

If you want full service for your buck then it is Sky that needs to act. Not RTÉ.

Other people would like to see what's going on in the Dail everyday. Why should they be left out all because you cannot be arsed to stick up an aerial for RTÉ One in HD.

A bit of cop on would be useful.

Smart ass again. Just to join in my desperation, as you called it.

And avoid my question why don't you. The bit I've put in italics, how many do you think? It's TV, it's meant to serve the public, not a handful of bored Political students.

You obviously can't have a reasoned debate without resorting to insult, so I'm out of here. You'll be talking to yourself!

where is mailbag when you need it.

emmetlego wrote: »

Smart ass again. Just to join in my desperation, as you called it.

And avoid my question why don't you. The bit I've put in italics, how many do you think? It's TV, it's meant to serve the public, not a handful of bored Political students.

You obviously can't have a reasoned debate without resorting to insult, so I'm out of here. You'll be talking to yourself!

I didn't insult you at all. Some people.

The audiece will be small. That's obvious. But RTÉ One is already there so nobody is being deprived of RTÉ One programming.

RTE saw a large decline in its advertising revenue between 1997 and 2003.

UK channels were able to launch cheap variants with advertising targeted at the Irish market.

Sky had developed one of the best program guides ever, people would not go back to watching poor quality analogue signals and many households removed cumbersome antennas in favour of mini dishes when the BBC & ITV going Free to air.

RTE's audience was ageing rapidly and advertisers wanted access to the their key demographic audiences, 16 - 30 year olds with cash in their pockets!

The tables have turned, Sky can easily work out the benefits of having an HD channel on its platform by looking at the ratings statistics (those boxes send more info than you think down the telephone/broadband line)

Its RTE that needs to work out a deal with sky to arrange carriage not the other way around!

The statement that they need to lease another transponder is rubbish, satellite channels don't occupy hole transponders anymore, not since the analogue days!

They may need to lease part of a new transponder to get enough bandwidth but that's about it!

Perhaps they could dump a few of the radio stations, to deliver a better quality TV service if they don't want to lease more bandwidth, I doubt to many people with miss the bulk of the radio stations from the EPG.

They could use some of the gains in advertising revenue to pay for the increase bandwidth but this level of compression has to stop!

The picture quality on RTE/ TV3 / 3e looks more like the old American 420p standard!

If sky was regulated as is normal for a TV channel in any other country then a line of legislation is all it would take to force them to carry whatever channels free of charge as was deemed in the public interest. But unfortunately this is Ireland.......

Saorview charge through the nose for carriage - RTE can't select a free ride from Sky.

JDxtra wrote: »

RTE can't select a free ride from Sky.

But they already do.

lertsnim wrote: »

But they already do.

That's the legacy agreement. We're taking about capacity for new services.

Apogee wrote: »

Why not?

Given that they are considering charging Pay-TV providers for carrying their content, it seems unlikely that they anticipate paying Sky into the future.

Yes it appears that both in UK and here a decision might be made to charge the likes of Sky for carrying FTA channels .....

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While the report isn’t complete yet, much like in Britain, the analysis is telling us that the financial benefits of the relationship are currently completely imbalanced in favour of the Pay-TV operators.

bbability wrote: »

So how come UTV Ireland are on Sky in HD and RTE 1 is still SD?

Exactly. Such a farce.

And don't no one come here, and say it's because they're paying for it.

I realise this. It's still a farce that a year later and no rte 1hd on sky.

rte1 happened to be on when we powered up the box one night this week...talk about tv3 being bad picture wise...ur wun doing the announcement for something or other, standing to one side of other graphics and mid stage, her face had no detail in it at all..just a blob of pixels on the screen...:eek:

Is it possible to manually tune in RTE1 HD on a Sky box?

Thanks.

D.

eugenecanna wrote: »

Not possible sorry

I've had been at Sky Ireland for over a year about RTE1 HD, and never got a satisfactory response. So I went to saorview and free sat service. I watch mostly Irish channels anyway, so no big deal.

What really struck me though, was the quality of the HD on the freesat. Far far superior to the sky HD. Probably down to the quality of the box sky provide, but genuinely, the HD is far better.

So now I have free to air TV, and the HD quality is far better.

Maybe if Sky had fixed the RTE1 HD problem earlier, I would have stuck around… No way I'm going back now!!!