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analogue obsolite??

  • 13-07-2008 12:44pm
    #1
    mukki
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    building a new house, and everyone is saying not to get an aerial as they are being phased out, but i need one to feed my mediacenter and all its extenders (house is prewired for tv network)


    what i am assuming is that when analog is stopped, i can just change my dual analogue terrestial to dual digital terrestial cards and carry on with rte1,2,bbc1,2,utv,ch4,tg4,tv3


    house is near kells in meath, am i right?


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  • #2
    bazwaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭bazwaldo


    One of the Cable and Digital TV forums such as http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=56 would have info on this.


  • #3
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    If you're happy with analogue, stay with it.

    If you want to record the Irish terrestrial channels in native digital streams, good luck. This involves recapture the output from a decoder, such as a Sky digibox or UPC decoder, resulting in crappy quality. We still have DTT trials; nothing solid (yet).

    If you want to record the UK terrestrial channels (exclusing Channel 5), get a DVB-S card as you'll be able to record these seeing as they are free-to-air (FTA).


  • #4
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    bazwaldo wrote: »
    One of the Cable and Digital TV forums such as http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=56 would have info on this.


    was hoping for a reply here as they speak a different language there :o


  • #5
    rlogue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭rlogue


    What, narg?
    ;)

    My advice is simple. Firstly aerials are NOT being phased out as the current analogue TV transmission network is being upgraded to Digital Terrestrial. A new DVB-T card will pick up FTA digital transmissions for the Irish channels. For the UK channels I'd recommend a DVB-S2 card connected to a satellite dish, with sufficient connections (an Octo or Quad LNB) to feed as many TVs or PCs as you require. You won't get Channel 5 but BBC, ITV and Channel 4 will come in along with all their associated digital channels.


  • #6
    bazwaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭bazwaldo


    mukki wrote: »
    was hoping for a reply here as they speak a different language there :o

    I see what you mean ;)


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  • #7
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    mukki wrote: »
    was hoping for a reply here as they speak a different language there :o
    Copy and paste and will attempt to translate :D. You won't be flamed in that forum without warranting it.


  • #8
    rlogue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭rlogue


    I was just trying to help. :mad:


  • #9
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    rlogue wrote: »
    I was just trying to help. :mad:


    my "hey speak a differenet language"was not meant as an insult, , or aimed at you, its just sometimes you need someone who is not an expert to explain things


    anyway after a lot of reading, i finally got my s2 3200 to work, so will get sky multiroom and put a 2nd tuner and 2 cards in the one machine, so for €35 a month i can practicially have sky+ on every telly in the house, but with a few advantages


    will post up a guide for anyone interested when i get it perfected, had to restore the pc as the wife wanted to watch "this morning"


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