RTE on Chorus Digital

Scobie

I am currently on Chorus Analogue - yes it's a bad service. Anyone know if RTE is in true widescreen on Chorus Digital, or is it just the arc'd analogue feed? Cheers.

Kensington

Digitised analogue feed, unless they've upgraded in the past 3 weeks

john_

IS that the MMDS? I hated Chorus both Digital and otherwise, nice designed theme for the system, but channels never worked. But thats off topic.. so im no help ... sorry

Scobie

Kensington wrote:

Digitised analogue feed, unless they've upgraded in the past 3 weeks

Oh dear! I was hoping that was not the case.

Mossy Monk

why cant they get a digital feed. Casey in Dungarvan gives a nice widescreen picture for RTÉ on its digital cable i am told

watty

They use analog feed also for BBC / ITV on Digital Chorus in Limerick. Though is comes now by microwave link from Cavan off Air pickup rather than the rotted aerial array on Keeper (I have a recent photo of Keeper).

I DO have a Sky sub at the moment (I periodically cancel and only have FTA). But only watch RTE via my TV aerial out of principle.

I still can't beleive that people pay for Chorus Analog cable and MMDS in Limerick. I've had it ditched in 3 places I lived here. I can't beleive how poor it is in William St (My friends flat).

You need to be fairly desparate for C4...

Which Chorus area you on? MMDS or cable?

Kensington

AFAIK, they also pull EuroSport off an analogue source and then MPEG it for their digital service. Also, as watty says, they use analogue feeds of BBC 1, BBC 2, UTV and Channel 4 - their have been times when you see "ghosting" and interference on the analogue source. The channels often look fairly washed out aswell, and colours look horrible on it. And of course - no widescreen, just 14:9 letterbox. BBC 3, BBC 4, News 24, ITV 3 etc. and the rest of the sky channels are all digital and in widescreen (where 16:9 programmes are broadcast of course).

Watty - any chance of posting up that picture of Keeper?

watty

As soon as I figure how to get pictures off my phone in VGA resolution without paying 44 Euro for a Cable. (Sagem myC5-2).

When I send them to a phone with IR port it only sends a low resolution copy.

Richard

watty wrote:

When I send them to a phone with IR port it only sends a low resolution copy.

Not sure how you're doing this - but can you browse your phone from a PC like you can with Bluetooth?

Solair

A few years ago Chorus cable in cork used to occasionally throw up the odd sky digibox menu on BBC 1, 2 etc when BBC wasn't on sky at all.

I wonder if they've some legal requirement to actually relay off-air channels rather than use digital feeds via sat?

It seems like a rather cumbersome way of doing things when you can just use a digibox!

watty

Richard wrote:

Not sure how you're doing this - but can you browse your phone from a PC like you can with Bluetooth?

My phone can only connect with a USB or serial cable. I don't have one.

Another phone DOES connect via IR port and allow full resolution transfer to PC.. But sending the pics to That Phone from MY Phone is only by Phone Network and only Low Resolution.

Kensington

Solair wrote:

I wonder if they've some legal requirement to actually relay off-air channels rather than use digital feeds via sat?

Who knows - it makes little sense why they would "have" to pull in BBC 1 & 2 from an off-air feed but they can pull in BBC 3 and 4, ITV 3 etc. and the rest from a sat feed. Possibly, it's to do with BBC 2 as there seems to be a strange "opt out" feed for this channel (if you watch BBC 2 on NTL analogue, and on digital at the same time, there are some minor differences eg. different program announcers and voiceovers, and some slightly different programming). Although NTL can use digital feeds of these channels...

Who knows - perhaps when they are fully taken over and merged with was NTL, then chrous will finally be sorted out with fully digital feeds and proper widescreen channels where necessary.

watty

I was told by Chorus Engineer / Tech person a few months ago that they didn't have permission from Sky...

(Perhaps they never looked again since ITV and BBC went FTA!).

Scobie

A friend in the Dublin area tells me that NTL get a direct fibre feed from RTE for their Digital Cable service - true widescreen. They also get an off-air ARCd feed for their analogue service. Why can't Chorus provide the a similar service?