RTE Two HD on Sky [Merged]

Johnboy1951 · 31-03-2012 11:21pm

RTÉ plans to offer the new channels ‘free-to-air’ on the national Saorview network. After an initial trial period, RTÉ has indicated that they will make these services available to other digital television network providers in accordance with section 77 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 which deals with ‘must carry’ and ‘must offer’obligations.

I never did quite understand this ....... if RTÉ are offering the channel/s FTA why are those who take those channels for rebroadcast not forced to also offer them FTA?

That would seem to be the most reasonable way to do it -- to me.

glimmerman123 · 08-05-2012 3:42pm

RTE 2 HD has now appeared on Sky through other channels. The frequency you will find it on is 10.744 H 22.0 5/6 under the label 1270. This will be a nice surprise for Sky customers in Ireland.

Cokeistan · 08-05-2012 3:43pm

Brilliant, thanks

Zhane · 08-05-2012 3:43pm

Do you think its testing to launch?

Nibs05 · 08-05-2012 3:45pm

Just tuned in, have it aswell !

GoodisonPark · 08-05-2012 3:47pm

Great stuff , probably a test allright but glad to have it.
Thanks for the frequency glimmerman123.

copacetic · 08-05-2012 3:51pm

Nice work OP. How does quality look?

glimmerman123 · 08-05-2012 3:55pm

copacetic wrote: »

Nice work OP. How does quality look?

The quality looks pretty good. It will be interesting to see how long it will take for it to be added to the epg.

JHet · 08-05-2012 4:09pm

Brilliant!

formerly scottish paddy · 08-05-2012 4:10pm

So much for RTÉ 2HD being "kept" for Saorview. Yet another blow against DTT.........$ky must be loving this!......probably start advertising it soon!

fasttalkerchat · 08-05-2012 4:14pm

Cheers. Also works on Sky UK in NI. So should work in the UK too.

pa990 · 08-05-2012 4:15pm

Is it encrypted?

Kensington · 08-05-2012 4:16pm

formerly scottish paddy wrote: »

So much for RTÉ 2HD being "kept" for Saorview. Yet another blow against DTT.........$ky must be loving this!......probably start advertising it soon!

RTE TWO HD wasn't being "kept for SaorView".
Nor is it a blow to SaorView - SaorView is nothing more than an analogue replacement system. It's not a commercial service nor is it competing against Sky, UPC or anybody else.

mickeyboymel · 08-05-2012 4:20pm

It seems to be at a higher Bit Rate at the moment anyway:1558 KB/s compared to Terrestrial at 784 KB/s

JDxtra · 08-05-2012 4:28pm

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Cheers. Also works on Sky UK in NI. So should work in the UK too.

Possibly not true. RTE is available on active Sky cards from NI - not cards from the rest of the UK.

aaron devers · 08-05-2012 4:28pm

what about rte news?

mikeym · 08-05-2012 4:38pm

Great news

glimmerman123 · 08-05-2012 4:39pm

aaron devers wrote: »

what about rte news?

RTE News Now has very limited content at the moment so until RTE add more live news content and cut down on the news repeats i can't see it launching on Sky anytime soon.

Nowso · 08-05-2012 4:44pm

pa990 wrote: »

Is it encrypted?

sky card needed it seems

JDxtra · 08-05-2012 4:45pm

What else is on this transponder? Is it the same transponder used for the other Irish channels?

Also, Sky love HD (it's a big earner!). I suppose there is a chance that Sky are paying for all of this, in which case - they're probably only interested in RTE Two HD.

mackersdublin · 08-05-2012 4:50pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Possibly not true. RTE is available on active Sky cards from NI - not cards from the rest of the UK.

Slightly off topic, but are the existing RTE, TV3 & TG4 channels available using a Free-To-View NI card?

JDxtra · 08-05-2012 4:53pm

RTE One, RTE Two and TG4 are available on an NI card with an active sub. Not TV3.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_channels_on_Sky. Jump to the Northern Ireland variations section.

p.oconnor · 08-05-2012 5:39pm

Is it true that with the channel now on satellite, the Bit Rate will be higher then through saorview when RTE are broadcasting native HD content?

fasttalkerchat · 08-05-2012 5:40pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Possibly not true. RTE is available on active Sky cards from NI - not cards from the rest of the UK.

I assumed that Sky NI cards would be the same as Sky UK cards. Worth a try.

lawhec · 08-05-2012 5:49pm

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

I assumed that Sky NI cards would be the same as Sky UK cards. Worth a try.

Sky residential UK subscription cards are assigned to a postcode identifier which allows it to not only allocate channels to relevant packages where appropriate, but also to place the relevant channels in EPG slots for local programming from BBC and ITV, and commercial regions for Channel 4 and Channel 5. I think there's something like over 80 such identifiers, but Northern Ireland (Postcodes beginning with BT) have just one allocation.

newballsplease · 08-05-2012 5:55pm

??? Its not coming up for me? Just rte1,2 tg4, tv3 and radio channels. No HD

elsie1b · 08-05-2012 6:01pm

After d.s.o what's to stop sky dispensing with the SD version of rte2 ?
Wouldn't this give people the push to take out a HD sub and more money to sky ?

08-05-2012 6:03pm

Getting it here. 4:3 content still stretched, as can be seen with The Simpsons at the moment.

Kensington · 08-05-2012 6:04pm

newballsplease wrote: »

??? Its not coming up for me? Just rte1,2 tg4, tv3 and radio channels. No HD

You do have a HD box, right?

elsie1b wrote: »

After d.s.o what's to stop sky dispensing with the SD version of rte2 ?
Wouldn't this give people the push to take out a HD sub and more money to sky ?

I'd imagine that would piddle a lot of their non-HD customers off rightly...

MrFrisp · 08-05-2012 6:07pm

glimmerman123 wrote: »

RTE 2 HD has now appeared on Sky through other channels. The frequency you will find it on is 10.744 H 22.0 5/6 under the label 1270. This will be a nice surprise for Sky customers in Ireland.

Hmmmm...Not showing up on Mine at all...

Would I need to re-boot the box??

I don't have a HD box..Just the Sky +..

But I do have an Openbox S9,,,so it should pop up on that,I presume.

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Manc-Red · 08-05-2012 6:09pm

Superb find by the OP - Excellent addition to Sky.

Arciphel · 08-05-2012 6:10pm

Cheers OP great find ;-)

thebrush · 08-05-2012 6:25pm

Wonderful got it! Thank you. On epg soon i assume??

Cheers:D

marno21 · 08-05-2012 6:44pm

Thanks for the tip.

Hopefully it'll be on the EPG soon and some of us won't have to walk in when a sporting event is on and the blurry SD mess is on TV and nobody will switch to Saorview.

On a related note, seeing as RTE have broadcast the channels at 544x576 with lots of artefacting for a while, I wonder how they've suddenly found bandwidth for a HD channel on the same TP, and how it will affect video quality on the SD channels which look rubbish as is.

prettyboy81 · 08-05-2012 6:45pm

Happy Days...working fine for moi, nice addition!

JDxtra · 08-05-2012 6:49pm

marno21 wrote: »

On a related note, seeing as RTE have broadcast the channels at 544x576 with lots of artefacting for a while, I wonder how they've suddenly found bandwidth for a HD channel on the same TP, and how it will affect video quality on the SD channels which look rubbish as is.

True. The Irish SD channels have been very poor quality of late on Sky. Not sure if it coincided with the move to Astra 1n or not.

JDxtra · 08-05-2012 7:39pm

Bad breakup on the channel now. A bit of work still to do I guess.

glimmerman123 · 08-05-2012 7:44pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Bad breakup on the channel now. A bit of work still to do I guess.

As it's in test mode at the moment no doubt there will be teething problems.

Manc-Red · 08-05-2012 7:46pm

Channel now 16:9

Picture breakup to beat the band

Johnny Johnson · 08-05-2012 8:38pm

There is no audio for speaking on it now. All I hear is background noise and music. Picture isn't breaking up now.

08-05-2012 8:41pm

Johnny Johnson wrote: »

There is no audio for speaking on it now. All I hear is background noise and music. Picture isn't breaking up now.

That's mad. It's the background music for the programme but no dialogue.

Manc-Red · 08-05-2012 8:46pm

Johnny Johnson wrote: »

There is no audio for speaking on it now. All I hear is background noise and music. Picture isn't breaking up now.

Karsini wrote: »

That's mad. It's the background music for the programme but no dialogue.

Audio Track MPEG (English) sorts that issue out guys.

Manc-Red · 08-05-2012 8:57pm

Looking good now.... 16/9

Manc-Red · 08-05-2012 9:33pm

marno21 wrote: »

On a related note, seeing as RTE have broadcast the channels at 544x576 with lots of artefacting for a while, I wonder how they've suddenly found bandwidth for a HD channel on the same TP, and how it will affect video quality on the SD channels which look rubbish as is.

Sky Vegas channels were moved off this mux last week and went to 10.921 H.

warder6161 · 08-05-2012 10:16pm

great picture quality:D

galtee boy · 08-05-2012 10:30pm

Slightly off topic, but I've just noticed that the weekly tv guide in The Irish Sun is now marking the programmes going out in HD on RTE 2, such as Desperate Housewives, Greys Anatomy etc.Maybe they knew about RTE 2HD about to appear on Sky ! At least they are doing something that the RTE Guide and Saorview's own EPG, have yet to do !