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UPC PVR?

  • 17-04-2011 12:34pm
    #1
    Schorpio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭


    I don't know if this is technically the right forum because I'm pretty sure that the my question relates to receiving UPC via aerial, but seems to be where all of the UPC questions get asked, so mods feel free to move if necessary!

    I rang up UPC on Friday because I'm thinking of ditching Sky and moving. I typed my address into the UPC website and it informed me that all I could receive was digital television and not digital+ or digitalHD. I'm almost 100% certain that there is no UPC cabling in my area, so I rang up their sales team where I was told that the website information was correct. I would receive UPC via aerial, should I decide to move. I asked if I could get multiroom and was told yes, that would be no problem at all. However, I would not be able to avail of a PVR function (like sky+) because the signal in my area is "too weak". Maybe it's just me being stupid, but that seems to make no sense. Surely signal strength is not an issue (especially when multiroom would be fine)?


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  • #2
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    You could very well be have been talking to someone in India !!! Ring them again and ask to talk to someone who can talk to you about mmds. I had the same issue as you last year, but I got talking to an excellent customer service agent who had mmds herself in Waterford. She informed me that I could get Digital & Digital +. I now have a pvr in main tv and another pvr in the secondary tv as part of the multiroom tarriff. Absolutely no problems yet.


  • #3
    Schorpio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Schorpio


    Nope the woman I was talking to was definitely Irish! :) I was thinking that she was either poorly informed, or that UPC never bothered licensing a non-cable PVR. But if you have a PVR, then she was surely just misinformed?! It'd be pretty poor of their sales reps to be that wrong.....


  • #4
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Not quite. Ex-Chorus areas can't have the PVR on MMDS. Ex-NTL MMDS customers can. Two different technologies were used.


  • #5
    Schorpio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Schorpio


    ah right! I would have guessed that this is an ex-Chorus area....:mad:


  • #6
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    ex-NTL : Counties Dublin, Galway, Waterford, and Mayo - use DVB-C (digital cable) technology for the MMDS system.

    Rest of country is ex-Chorus and uses DVB-T (digital terrestrial) technology for the MMDS system.


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