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Dodgy deal?

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  • #2
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    The description is quite straightforward ...unlike walking into Currys right now :cool:..... so not that dodgy really.


  • #3
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Yeah, they're up front about RTE2 HD in description I suppose.

    At €25.00 plus €10 P&P, perhaps 'not a great deal' would be more accurate.


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Yes, it just doesn't work. Saorview (Irish DTT) is really an HD service. RTE2 is Sd upscalled to HD now. Eventually RTE1, RTE2, TV3 and TG4 will all be HD and no SD simulcast.

    From their Advert My correction of the If -> When
    This is a SD (standard definition) decoder which will not decode HD (High Definition) broadcasts. RTENL are currently broadcasting in SD and it would appear this is how it will stay for now. RTE2 is planned to stop broadcasting in SD on April 18th.
    ...
    THERE IS NO GAURANTEE THAT RTE TRANSMISSIONS WILL NOT ALL GO TO HD ONLY BUT LOOKS UNLIKELY FOR THE NEAR FUTURE. If [When] they go HD only these boxes will not work.
    The current RTE2 SD is horrid very low quality, purely probably as a sop to maker that may be certifying proper boxes and mistakenly sold SD boxes in Ireland. The "proper" RTE2 is in HD format now.

    Picnic boxes don't work properly for Irish Digital. Made for a Service that was never launched. Hence cheap.
    http://www.saortv.info/terrestrial-saorview/the-black-list/
    The technical requirements for Irish digital terrestrial television (DTT) (now SAORVIEW) receivers were first published by the Department of Communications Energy and Natural Resources in February 2008. The receiver requirements were one of the key outputs from the Department’s Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Trial which was conducted between August 2006 and July 2008. For more information go to: http://www.digitaltelevision.ie/DTT+Trial/.

    Key elements of the receiver specification include the following:

    1. The receiver needs to be capable of decoding both Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) MPEG 4 signals. This is important as RTÉ is planning to replace its current SD RTÉ Two service with an RTÉ Two HD service on SAORVIEW. More HD services are likely to follow in the future.

    2. The receiver needs to have MHEG5 middleware to decode RTÉ’s proposed new Digital Aertel Service and other possible interactive services.

    In December 2008 RTÉ published its Minimum Receiver Requirements. It subsequently appointed a company to test receivers for compliance with the these requirements and instigated an approval process for manufacturers. RTÉ did not add any further technical requirements beyond what was already required in the Department’s specification
    From official site http://saorview.ie/receiving.html

    So the advert is for what is says it is. Not a Dodgy advert as such compared with many Irish shops. But you REALLY don't want to buy one of these. When Sky learnt they would not be allowed the "Picnic" service, then these should have been recycled.


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