How to watch World Cup in HD

goose2005

Hi I think it would be useful to have a sticky showing people how to get ITV HD on Sky for the world cup (you don't need a HD subscription to get it, unlike Tv3)

Go to Services, Add Channel

Frequency 11.097
Polarisation: V
Symbol Rate 23
FEC 2/3
Standard DVB-S2
Modulation Scheme 8PSK

and press the yellow button.

peckerhead

You'll be able to make out every bead of sweat on Joe Schmidt's forehead! :pac:

Tomtom364

TV3 HD has appeared on my Eircom Evision recently and it is working away with no HD subscription paid for.

BoJack Horseman

Will TV3-HD be added to the Sky platform?

The 'SD' display is like YouTube at 240p.... It's not even as good as normal SD.

total former

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Will TV3-HD be added to the Sky platform?

It's already there, if you have the HD sub.

BoJack Horseman

total former wrote: »

It's already there, if you have the HD sub.

I don't.... Gawd damn it.

HD has been around for nearly 15 years..... Yet it's still a charged premium.

vienne86

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

I don't.... Gawd damn it.

HD has been around for nearly 15 years..... Yet it's still a charged premium.

Exactly - it is high tme they just gave it to everyone. I think it is fairly cheap on UPC, but on Sky it is something like a tenner a month - no way!

eclipsechaser

If you don't have a TV package at all, what are the online options?

Is TV3 available online with decent quality and reliability?

ITV also?

Zzippy

Mod Note: A polite reminder folks, no discussion please of illegal streams or illegal workarounds of geoblocking.

total former

eclipsechaser wrote: »

If you don't have a TV package at all, what are the online options?

Is TV3 available online with decent quality and reliability?

Yes, TV3 are streaming all games online. I have never used their player so can't really comment on the quality/reliability.

Digifriendly

goose2005 wrote: »

Hi I think it would be useful to have a sticky showing people how to get ITV HD on Sky for the world cup (you don't need a HD subscription to get it, unlike Tv3)

Go to Services, Add Channel

Frequency 11.097
Polarisation: V
Symbol Rate 23
FEC 2/3
Standard DVB-S2
Modulation Scheme 8PSK

and press the yellow button.

Only problem here is ITV4 which will cover some RWC matches live. It requires a HD subscription. If you manually add it it will be encrypted.

splashthecash

sorry whats the problem here? that ITV4 HD will be showing some games which does charge, as will ITV HD which doesn't? i dont get what you are saying...

Digifriendly

splashthecash wrote: »

sorry whats the problem here? that ITV4 HD will be showing some games which does charge, as will ITV HD which doesn't? i dont get what you are saying...

Yes exactly. ITV4HD will cover some games live which are not live on ITV HD. ITV4D requires a subscription and therefore can't be viewed in ROI.

adrian522

ITV4 doesn't have any of the more high profile games though. Most of the most important games and all the knockout games are on ITV.

http://www.itv.com/rugbyworldcup/fixtures

dub_skav

France Italy is the biggest game on ITV4.
I'd say that will be of particular interest to Irish fans too.

adrian522

Yeah, I'll probably watch it but it's not something I'll be paying a HD subscription for.

Sinbad_NI

If ITV's coverage is anything like last time it'll be worth getting the radio going for alternate commentary.

Losty Dublin

Tomtom364 wrote: »

TV3 HD has appeared on my Eircom Evision recently and it is working away with no HD subscription paid for.

Evision provide HD versions of many channels by default so there's no need to upgrade with them.

MJohnston

Anyone know if TV3's 3Player streams live in HD? I'm in the USA at the minute and can't check.

Diabhal Beag

Fairly certain the United game was in HD yesterday online.

errlloyd

goose2005 wrote: »

Hi I think it would be useful to have a sticky showing people how to get ITV HD on Sky for the world cup (you don't need a HD subscription to get it, unlike Tv3)

Go to Services, Add Channel

Frequency 11.097
Polarisation: V
Symbol Rate 23
FEC 2/3
Standard DVB-S2
Modulation Scheme 8PSK

and press the yellow button.

Sky Box only gives me the option of 22 or 27.5

Muahahaha

goose2005 wrote: »

Go to Services, Add Channel

Frequency 11.097
Polarisation: V
Symbol Rate 23
FEC 2/3
Standard DVB-S2
Modulation Scheme 8PSK

and press the yellow button.

I did all this and ITV HD came up. I stored that and then went to the 'Other Channels' menu in the Options menu but there is nothing there. My Sky box is fairly new, about 2 months. Have they prevented adding channels on the newer boxes or is there something else I could try?

InTheTrees

Just count ourselves lucky.

In the USA its $39.99 per match.

Fcuking insane.

SO I use a VPN.

Squidgy Black

Muahahaha wrote: »

I did all this and ITV HD came up. I stored that and then went to the 'Other Channels' menu in the Options menu but there is nothing there. My Sky box is fairly new, about 2 months. Have they prevented adding channels on the newer boxes or is there something else I could try?

Did you try storing all three of the ITV HD channels that come up?

They haven't blocked it on the newer boxes at all.

errlloyd

errlloyd wrote: »

Sky Box only gives me the option of 22 or 27.5

Anyone have an answer to how to get a 23 symbol rate if the box only offers 22 or 27.5

davo2001

Thanks. TV3s commentators are horrific!

Muahahaha

_Tyrrell_ wrote: »

Did you try storing all three of the ITV HD channels that come up?

They haven't blocked it on the newer boxes at all.

Just tried it again there and figured it out. What I was doing wrong was going to the 'Other Channels' section to try to find them. That came up blank which made me think there was nothing there but when I hit select then they all showed up. Stupid me perhaps but the software tricked me

Anyone know if you can add RTE+1 to a Sky box setup?