Aertel Down till August 3rd

pa990

Digital Aertel will be unavailable until 3rd August


so it says when i try and load aertel

Mayo Exile

Yes. Same here. Here's the message:

Gerry Wicklow

Considering they still advertise auditions for the 'All Ireland Talent show' in Aug/Sept 2009 and often get their programme listings wrong, is it that big of a loss?:p

mike65

On now....via DDT

pa990

mike65 wrote: »

On now....via DDT

nope. still getting the b&w message from spur hill

mike65

Still on for me (from Mt Leinster I assume)

radiospan

For me, it now says it will be down until Monday, August 9th

Mayo Exile

Yes, same message from Clermont Carn too. Off until August 9th.

Kensington

mike65 wrote: »

Still on for me (from Mt Leinster I assume)

What are you seeing when you load aertel? Its a central feed from the headend in donnybrook so everyone gets the exact same thing.

mike65

Then what am I looking at? I'm watching RTE on DTT.

Kensington

mike65 wrote: »

Then what am I looking at? I'm watching RTE on DTT.

Channels are working fine, no change there. Call up aertel though and you should get a message similar to that posted above.

mike65

I'm getting no message and but I getting aertel. I'll be back with a time/dated pix in a moment!

Mayo Exile

New message:



"Old" Aertel mike65 is on about maybe?

mike65

Ah, thankyou. We are now all on the same page. Where is this new fangled aertel hiding? When I press the button on my remote I get the trad aertel

Mayo Exile

mike65 wrote: »

Ah, thankyou. We are now all on the same page. Where is this new fangled aertel hiding? When I press the button on my remote I get the trad aertel

Roughly looks like this. It's a screenshot from January. Layout has changed a bit since however. Depending on what type of telly you have, you can switch between both versions. My LG tv can do this. It's not available at the moment, just the message.

mike65

Righty-ho. Something to look forward to I guess.

Kensington

Well that clears that up! Are you using a Samsung TV by any chance mike? They seem to prioritise analogue teletext over MHEG so on RTÉ One and RTÉ TWO where you get the old teletext version, alongside the MHEG version, pressing text on your remote launches the teletext version, not MHEG.

mike65

Samsung it is yep. I just had a look at the user manual. It gives no clue as to accessing this DTT text service.

Namabillion

mike65 wrote: »

Samsung it is yep. I just had a look at the user manual. It gives no clue as to accessing this DTT text service.

Same on my Phillips. I am just getting analogue.

emaherx

probably need to set TV to UK instead of Ireland to access mheg5 base text as it is the same as Freeview uses. This won't affect TV's ability to decode MPEG4 for normal TV viewing.

Namabillion

emaherx wrote: »

probably need to set TV to UK instead of Ireland to access mheg5 base text as it is the same as Freeview uses. This won't affect TV's ability to decode MPEG4 for normal TV viewing.

Did that but still only recieving analogue channels with analogue aertel. Epg isin't working either.

emaherx

Namabillion wrote: »

Did that but still only recieving analogue channels with analogue aertel. Epg isin't working either.

You mean you don't receive Digital Channels at all?
Do you receive sound with no picture? or nothing?

If you have sound with no picture then your TV is not MPEG4 capable.
If you are receiving no digital signal then maybe you are not in an area with digital coverage or at least your aerial is not aligned to a transmitter with digital signal.

What part of the country are you in and do you know what transmitter you are receiving analouge from?

The other posters in this thread are receiving Digital Picture fine just not Digital Text Service (Aertel).

Namabillion

Not receiving digital at all. I'm in west cork so i think i'm getting analogue from Mullaghanish. I have sky working fine so i have the channels i was just curious about what is available through DDT and see what it is like. I guess i'll have to wait a few months.

pa990

it's back up again.
When it loads, just ignore the black and white message, and type in 101

emaherx

pa990 wrote: »

it's back up again.
When it loads, just ignore the black and white message, and type in 101

You have way too much time on your hands

mike65

Just switched my country to UK and so had to do a tedious rescan, its loading....for the last 3 minutes!

Working now, clearly a long way from the finished article.

Mike 1972

pa990 wrote: »

Digital Aertel

Namabillion wrote: »

analogue aertel.

No such thing as "Analouge" Aertel

emaherx

Mike 1972 wrote: »

No such thing as "Analouge" Aertel

that may be true :rolleyes:, but there is a diffrent Aertel provided with the Analouge Service than the Digital Service.

And since all radio waves are Analouge in nature there is no Digital signals being received by any of our aerials.:eek:

Namabillion

Mike 1972 wrote: »

No such thing as "Analouge" Aertel

You know what I mean. Old Aertel that the most of the country still gets

Mayo Exile

Format of message changed. Some colour button options now available.



Pressing blue gives a help page:



Green gives an index page:



Content available too in these menus. Haven't looked at them all.

homelink

I have a Triax combo box (ST-HD 527Ci).it is supposed to have MHEG5 for interactive services but will only show the old teletext.Any ideas?Tried changing the Country status to UK France etc. but no joy.

Namabillion

Should it work on rte on sky

emaherx

Namabillion wrote: »

Should it work on rte on sky

No. There is no Digital text service for RTE on Sky