ITV/UTV on sky

passingthrough

we were thinking of getting sky at home here but iv been looking through it and there isnt any sign of utv or itv which my mam wants, is it possible to get it at all?

stephendevlin

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055520627

dave1982

Yes in other channels.You have input the codes yourself.And they are not listed in main channel list.

JDxtra

You also can't record it. Looking for somebody to blame? Direct your anger at TV3...

200motels

JDxtra wrote: »

You also can't record it. Looking for somebody to blame? Direct your anger at TV3...

Which I have to no avail, it's an awful channel and if it went in the morning I wouldn't miss it.

Cantona's Collars

passingthrough wrote: »

we were thinking of getting sky at home here but iv been looking through it and there isnt any sign of utv or itv which my mam wants, is it possible to get it at all?

Bet she wants it to watch Corrie and Emmerdale which are on TV3,as stated before UTV and all the other ITV channels are able to be tuned in manually.
Use ITVHD instead of UTV-better picture and sound.;)

Digifriendly

JDxtra wrote: »

You also can't record it. Looking for somebody to blame? Direct your anger at TV3...

Strictly speaking you can record but not using Sky + facilities and you can only do it manually to an external source e.g. DVD with Sky box tuned to channel you want to record from for duration of programme. So yes it is possible but a real pain.

Ranicand

The reason cable has UTV is the agreement is years old and predates any other contracts.

TV 3 has the rights to the ITV stuff in Ireland that is why they have kept UTV and the other ITVs off Sky Ireland.

UPC added on the extra ITV channels at the start of last year TV3 challenged it and now they are gone.

There was never any problem with the BBC channels Sky just did not want to pay BBC for the rights to put their channels on the Irish EPG.

UPC had all the extra BBC channels and people like to use them that is why Sky got the finger out and added them onto the Irish EPG.

UTV being on UPC is the one odd loophole other then that there will be no ITV channels on Irish pay tv platforms as TV3 hold all the rights.

BBC has a good working relationship with UPC RTE and Sky the ITV channel rights on the other hand are a commercial minefield.

You can thank TV3 for this.

As regards BBC 1 HD UPC paid BBC the extra money to add it on there is nothing stopping Sky doing the same if their Irish customers pressure them enough.

So as far as ITV stuff in the EPG TV3 is all Sky will ever have.

tdv123

Slight bit of topic here, but does anybody if you can manually tune in "Channel 5" yet or is it still encrypted over here?

John mac

Yes you can .

click here

200motels

Ranicand wrote: »

The reason cable has UTV is the agreement is years old and predates any other contracts.

TV 3 has the rights to the ITV stuff in Ireland that is why they have kept UTV and the other ITVs off Sky Ireland.

UPC added on the extra ITV channels at the start of last year TV3 challenged it and now they are gone.

There was never any problem with the BBC channels Sky just did not want to pay BBC for the rights to put their channels on the Irish EPG.

UPC had all the extra BBC channels and people like to use them that is why Sky got the finger out and added them onto the Irish EPG.

UTV being on UPC is the one odd loophole other then that there will be no ITV channels on Irish pay tv platforms as TV3 hold all the rights.

BBC has a good working relationship with UPC RTE and Sky the ITV channel rights on the other hand are a commercial minefield.

You can thank TV3 for this.

As regards BBC 1 HD UPC paid BBC the extra money to add it on there is nothing stopping Sky doing the same if their Irish customers pressure them enough.

So as far as ITV stuff in the EPG TV3 is all Sky will ever have.

I didn't know BBC 1 HD was on UPC.

Minstrel27

It's there with a few weeks now.

Ranicand

200motels wrote: »

I didn't know BBC 1 HD was on UPC.

Only added about two weeks ago.