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Sky V Dish V New Technologies?

  • 27-08-2010 2:55pm
    #1
    ASBO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭


    Hey all,

    Moving to new place in central Dublin. About to buy new tv to go along with a new subscription to sky service. Before I finalise things with sky and sign up for the 12 month contract can anyone out there explain to a layman the following:

    1. Is there emerging technology that I should look into (reading threads about DTT and Mpeg Tuners suggests that with a one-off dish installation I could access free channels?)

    2. Can anyone direct me to threads that explain the impact of DTT or watching television via the internet?

    3. Are these technologies current or as a layman should I just sign up with sky, forget the hassle and wait for the new technologies to be packaged, overpriced and delivered to me!

    For the record we only watch the basic channels (Rte,BBC,UTV, Chan4, Comedy Channels, More4, Film 4).

    Any advice greatly appreciated.


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    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    ASBO wrote: »
    Hey all,

    Moving to new place in central Dublin. About to buy new tv to go along with a new subscription to sky service. Before I finalise things with sky and sign up for the 12 month contract can anyone out there explain to a layman the following:

    1. Is there emerging technology that I should look into (reading threads about DTT and Mpeg Tuners suggests that with a one-off dish installation I could access free channels?)

    2. Can anyone direct me to threads that explain the impact of DTT or watching television via the internet?

    3. Are these technologies current or as a layman should I just sign up with sky, forget the hassle and wait for the new technologies to be packaged, overpriced and delivered to me!

    For the record we only watch the basic channels (Rte,BBC,UTV, Chan4, Comedy Channels, More4, Film 4).

    Any advice greatly appreciated.


    There are no new technologies coming on stream per say. RTE is launcing Saorview in October which is going to be Ireland's National DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) service. This is not new technology and the UK has had a similar service since OnDigital launched in 1999 over there. In 2012, The Analogue shutdown will begin and the DSO (Digital Switch Over) will begin.

    HD Television is available at the moment via satellite (Sky and Freesat) and UPC in Ireland and SaorView is designed to be HD capable from the start hence the MPEG4 part of things. SaorView will not broadcast any channels from the begining but the channels will go HD in the next 3 or 4 years.

    SaorView

    Freesat

    RTE also plan to launch SaorSat which will just carry the same channels as SaorView but instead through a special free to air satellite service totally independent of the Astra satellite set-up which carrys both the Freesat and Sky Channels. Most of the channels you describe are FTA anyway on the UK's Freesat platform and all you need is a satellite dish and freesat receiver to get them.

    If you live in a strong signal area when RTÉ launches Saorview you can then get the RTE and Irish channels this way, if you have a poor reception then you will be able to use the Saorsat alternative, if and when it gets launched.

    It sounds to me you don't need Sky at all to get what you want and you can get all those channels without a subscription.


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