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DTT Official launch going nowhere !!

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  • #2
    gtg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭gtg60


    Firstly your thread title should be;
    Commercial DTT Official launch going nowhere !!
    RTE is obliged to have the public service side of DTT operational by October, but for DTT to appeal to a wider audience, it must have a commercial selection of channels. Otherwise RTE will be investing up to €100million for a service that will have limited appeal and is unlikely ever to take off.

    Are they serious? Who writes these articles?
    Who doesn't want perfect RTE/TV3 etc reception from nothing more than an aerial? I know everybody I've shown it too or tuned it in on their MPEG4 TV's have been nothing but impressed they 'simpily weren't aware it existed'!


  • #3
    redalicat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭redalicat


    So, at the end of the day, is Ireland's DTT going to just be the four channels we currently receive on terrestrial--and nothing more? :(


  • #4
    gtg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭gtg60


    redalicat wrote: »
    So, at the end of the day, is Ireland's DTT going to just be the four channels we currently receive on terrestrial--and nothing more? :(

    No, there will be uptake for the commercial muxes just not this year!

    A lot of people in the country don't even receive all 4 channels as it is and a lot more don't receive them well, those people are going to be delighted with DTT.

    Besides will you pay extra for channels you can receive for free by satellite?? That's the real killer for commercial DTT!


  • #5
    redalicat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭redalicat


    gtg60 wrote: »
    Besides will you pay extra for channels you can receive for free by satellite?? That's the real killer for commercial DTT!

    Nope, I'm cancelling Sky soon and getting the free satellite thru that. I just need to get my aerial sorted so I can get the 4. Now if I could just get a nicer TV instead of getting the DTT box...:rolleyes:


  • #6
    gtg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭gtg60


    redalicat wrote: »
    Nope, I'm cancelling Sky soon and getting the free satellite thru that. I just need to get my aerial sorted so I can get the 4. Now if I could just get a nicer TV instead of getting the DTT box...:rolleyes:

    This is EXACTLY what I'm saying, with 5 Irish channels in perfect DTT picture quality and a FTA sat system most people will have all the channels they'll ever need for FREE!


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  • #7
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    There will be more than 4 free channels. As has been said many times.

    There may not be ANY take up (or successful sustained takeup by a company that doesn't go bust) of Pay DTT till after Analogue Switch off, when the market would be bigger. Even then only if the majority of setboxes / TVs have a suitable CS slot or builtin CAM.

    This is already all covered in other threads.
    Particularly this one at the last few days http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=65697011&postcount=1256


  • #8
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Lets keep the discussion to the sticky, shall we???

    Thread closed.


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