Digital TV gets legislative green light

Fr0g

Just noticed this on ENN

http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=10045441

Puts DTT on a more formalised footing and includes legislation to extend rte services outside Ireland.

Ulsterman 1690

legislation to extend rte services outside Ireland.

How come this wasnt needed for their radio services (Longwave Shortwave and Satellite) ?

lucernarian

Dare I say it was because no one thought of challenging this legally??:D

BowWow

http://www.dcmnr.gov.ie/Press+Releases/Dempsey+Signs+Commencement+Order+for+Broadcasting+%28Amendment%29+Act+2007.htm

Link to dept of Communications Press Release.

watty

Ulsterman 1690 wrote:

How come this wasnt needed for their radio services (Longwave Shortwave and Satellite) ?

No legislation needed for Radio

Because, technically, by ITU rules etc LW/MW is world wide co-ordinated and RTE ought to have been offering external services on Radio since 1922 or 1926 like everyone else does. It was very frustrating living in M.E. in 1989/1990 and only getting snippets of Irish news, crumbs of the table of BBC World Service (which I could get on VHF-FM, perhaps from Cyprus?).

I can here in Limerick listen to several French and many UK radio stations on LW/MW day or night on a good radio.

Before TV, and portable radios, a window frame was often fitted with an insulated brass rod to connect the Wireless Set to an outdoor Aerial. Before and during WWII the Germans made specially insensitive radios with no tuning dial markings to "encourage" local listening.

VHF Radio and TV changed Listening habits. LW, MW and SW listening of stations from all over Europe was very popular. ON SW, American, South American and Far east depending of time of day.

musa

Thanks for that,now we know,where to get a humax box,does it have a cam slot?

Scottish paddy

The legislation was not for the actual technology but the use of licence fee money to run separate “external” services as would be required for television. An interesting question, will “RTÉ International” be made readily available in Ireland (i.e. on a future DTT system) or just on $ky? If it was widely available in Ireland then presumably RTÉ could also use it for extended coverage of news/events etc. separate from the “domestic” channels.

watty

You can buy Humax with or without a CAM Slot = CI = Common Interface. Physically a PCMCIA style connection