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No text thru Sky box

  • 06-10-2011 12:39pm
    #1
    BullBauld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭


    Hi all

    I had Saorview until I got Sky a few months ago. The digital text worked fine with Saorview but since getting Sky the text feature does not work.

    I press tv and then text but just get message 'not available'

    Is it the tv or Sky box I wonder?

    Any ideas welcome.

    Thanks

    Bull


Comments

  • #2
    brian_gall85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭brian_gall85


    Digital text won't work on RTE on Sky through the HDMI lead. The old Aertel system will work through the aerial on my TV.


  • #3
    BullBauld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭BullBauld


    I know I wouldn't get the digital text through Sky, all I want is the Aertel text but cant unfortunately.


  • #4
    bulbs2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭bulbs2010


    try run a lead from the analog output on your sky box to your tv,then tune your tv to ch 68 ,that should work


  • #5
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    bulbs2010 wrote: »
    try run a lead from the analog output on your sky box to your tv,then tune your tv to ch 68 ,that should work

    Or a scart cable also used to carry the text for me until I went HDMI!


  • #6
    brian_gall85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭brian_gall85


    brian_gall85 wrote: »
    Digital text won't work on RTE on Sky through the HDMI lead. The old Aertel system will work through the aerial on my TV.

    That's what I meant with my original post btw, posted from my phone earlier and reading it now it doesn't seem too clear. I get aertel on Sky while watching sky through the aerial.


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  • #7
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    If your tv is saorview compatible then use that for RTE text and then switch to the HDMI for sky reception.HDMI won't work with the old fashioned Aertel service (who uses that still?)


  • #8
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭Antenna


    zerks wrote: »
    the old fashioned Aertel service (who uses that still?)


    as well as Sky subscribers..
    viewers of analogue terrestrial.
    Everyone receiving RTE from cable (digital as well as analogue) or MMDS
    non-Saorview approved MPEG4 DTT receivers which cannot do MHEG5.

    It all adds up to a much greater figure for the time being than have/use MHEG5 on Saorview


    Its a pity that Skyboxes don't have built-in decoding of 'traditional' teletext (as well as passing it in the VBI as normal on SCART + RF outputs) avoiding the HDMI issue

    UPC digital boxes have built-in teletext decoding
    And cheap FTA satellite boxes (from Lidl etc) nearly all do it too.


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