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RTENL test channel is back

  • 27-10-2009 10:52pm
    #1
    fat-tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭


    Back transmitting again alongside the four national stations - and with a spiffy new testcard, complete with (I'd guess) a moving line to check the sync of audio and video!


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  • #2
    lawhec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭lawhec


    The moving line on the testcard is if the received picture becomes frozen the engineers know when something is up, though sync the audio and video is also done.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Looks like a slightly modified Philips PM5644 test card.


  • #4
    keith99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭keith99


    Karsini wrote: »
    Looks like a slightly modified Philips PM5644 test card.

    we might get a mirACLE of 3e or a rtehd channel on this channel or get nothing for usual


  • #5
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,163 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    keith99 wrote: »
    we might get a mirACLE of 3e or a rtehd channel on this channel or get nothing for usual

    We all know that this is not really a test. They know the score at this stage technically.
    Its just buying time before a possible launch, (Which should have happened at least 3 years ago.)


  • #6
    Hissing Sideban
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭Hissing Sideban


    There is a clip of it on you tube -

    Link to it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYfGoPVHz3s


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  • #7
    ei9go
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭ei9go


    My tv shows the test channel as HDTV!

    Since the rescan it also shows all the other channels as "encrypted" but displays them anyway.


  • #8
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,182 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    ei9go wrote: »
    My tv shows the test channel as HDTV!

    Since the rescan it also shows all the other channels as "encrypted" but displays them anyway.

    "576i" on mine, e.g. SDTV.


  • #9
    Apogee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,855 ✭✭✭Apogee


    The reason it's showing up as HD on certain TVs is because, unlike the the other channels, it's flagged as "advanced codec HD digital television service". It's running at about 8Mbps but at SD resolution.


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