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    #32
    comongethappy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭comongethappy


    My sky box wouldn't show the FTA channels without the card inserted.

    So I purchased a card on Adverts, to allow this.

    Example:
    http://touch.adverts.ie/satellite/sky-uk-white-freesat-viewing-card-hd/4867776


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    #33
    deelite
    Registered Users Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭deelite


    I have an old UPC box could I get FTA on that?


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    #34
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,765 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    deelite wrote: »
    I have an old UPC box could I get FTA on that?

    No.


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    #35
    Spike78
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Spike78


    I would appreciate some advise. I returned to ireland from the uk last year, I have been using my uk sky card which I have continued to pay my subscription on. I now want to cancel the subscription however this will mean loosing rte as it is not fta in uk. The tv I have has built in freeview from the uk.
    What is my best option to get rte ie. can I get a saor view box and connect to tv along with the fta uk from sky using a splitter of some sort.


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    #36
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Spike78 wrote: »
    I would appreciate some advise. I returned to ireland from the uk last year, I have been using my uk sky card which I have continued to pay my subscription on. I now want to cancel the subscription however this will mean loosing rte as it is not fta in uk. The tv I have has built in freeview from the uk.
    What is my best option to get rte ie. can I get a saor view box and connect to tv along with the fta uk from sky using a splitter of some sort.
    RTE is not FTA in GB, it is free to air in Northern Ireland.

    It's down to the cost of rights issues. For BBC/C4/ITN the extra costs of paying for the overspill for the 15% that don't pay already pay for UK TV is less than the encryption. There's no way RTE couldn't pay the right holders going the other way.

    If you are on the west coast of Wales you might get some overspill , if you have a big enough TV aerial , high enough.


    RTE also broadcast by satellite - SaorSat.
    BUT it's KA band where they reuse frequencies in small spot beams. The one that covers the Island of Ireland means you will get perfect reception in parts of West Wales and 5 miles down the road you will get nothing. It's great example of the digital cliff.


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    #37
    Spike78
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Spike78


    Thanks for reply.
    In essence my problem is I have fta from uk already, what is the most frugal system to add the rte stations. I want to keep the fta from the uk as my wife watches some of the regional stations.


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    #38
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Spike78 wrote: »
    Thanks for reply.
    In essence my problem is I have fta from uk already, what is the most frugal system to add the rte stations. I want to keep the fta from the uk as my wife watches some of the regional stations.

    Pick up a cheap saorview box for RTE unless your tv can already pick up saorview.The best option is a combo box which has both satellite & terrestrial channels and negates the need for 2 boxes and extra remotes.


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    #39
    dwasol
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭dwasol


    if I get a saorview television which allows me to watch the Irish channels & I plug the Sky FTA box into the back of the television I then have all irish & UK terrestrial channels?


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    #40
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,765 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Basically yeah - you'll have the 4 Irish channels + 3E and a FTA box will get you the main UK channels. There's a small number they get on DTT that aren't free on satellite but nothing worth worrying over.


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    #41
    green123
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭green123


    dwasol wrote: »
    if I get a saorview television which allows me to watch the Irish channels & I plug the Sky FTA box into the back of the television I then have all irish & UK terrestrial channels?

    you will still need either an indoor or an outdoor aerial to pick up saorview.
    and a satellite dish to pick up fta channels


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