"Irish digital ready"

Hannibal

Does anybody know what this means when buying a tv as in what free channels it can receive and from where?

I've an aerial that picks up Saorview and I've a dish there that would pick up freesat, "digital ready" says it can pick up 60 channels but is non specific after that.

Thanks

Harry Palmr

Almost certainly means it's got an inbuilt MPEG 4 tuner for digital terrestrial channels - saorview. Nothing more though if you were in the right place you could pick up freeview overspill from Northern Ireland and maybe Wales - perhaps that is what the 60 channels is cheekily referring to.

Any telly with a scart or HMDI can show a satellite channel via an appropriate set top box.

The Cush

Not Saorview certified but capable of displaying the Saorview channels received via the aerial.

Hannibal

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Almost certainly means it's got an inbuilt MPEG 4 tuner for digital terrestrial channels - saorview. Nothing more though if you were in the right place you could pick up freeview overspill from Northern Ireland and maybe Wales - perhaps that is what the 60 channels is cheekily referring to.

Any telly with a scart or HMDI can show a satellite channel via an appropriate set top box.

Yeah I know about the set top box, I've one there. I was just wondering what the selling tactic with digital ready meant as it's non specific. Some tv's have dual tuners inbuilt where you can pull both Saorview and Freesat.

The Cush

Hannibal wrote: »

I was just wondering what the selling tactic with digital ready meant as it's non specific.

My answer above applies, some manufacturers chose not to go through the Saorview receiver approval process for whatever reason but have the necessary tuner/decoder on board to receive and decode the Saorview channels. The term has been used since the transition to DTT.

icdg

Moved to terrestrial