Use my UK Purchased TV in Ireland

kroger

Is it possible to have my tv converted to recieve irish tv as I am moving back there in a couple of months To The South Sligo area.
Is it possible to obtain a VHF to UHF convertor

David C

What part of Ireland are you moving to?
If you are going to be in Dublin, three rock mountain is all UHF..
This will be viewable on a UK tv..
You won't be able to use it to view NTL analogue channels or RTE One & Network 2 on some transmitters, such as Kippure in Wicklow.

DMC

As David C says, some of the clearest signals to recieve RTÉ 1 and Network 2 and to get Cable TV in this country, they operate on VHF Band I and III, which cannot be recieved on a standard UK TV.

So no cable, but in most parts of the country, you should be able to receieve all 4 Irish terrestrial channels on UHF without any change to your TV. Sky Digital would not be a problem either.

Tazz T

I bought a Irish video and tuned this in and then was able to use the telly.

DMC

Yep, that would work too. Get an Irish video and use the tuner in that to watch channels on VHF.

You can also purchase a gadget that will take in vhf cable and output all the channels it receives onto UHF.
Cannot remember what it's called but a flatmate of mine back in student days had it and it worked a treat for his UK telly as all the cable channels were "re transmitted" so when it was plugged into the UK telly you could tune them all in.
It wasn't a video sender as such as it only sent the "new" Uhf signals via a co-ax cable to the tv.

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Saruman

Hmm just out of curiosity does that go both ways? If someone brought an Irish TV over there would they be limited like this or could they watch anything they want over there with an Irish TV?

ShaneOC

Irish TV's work perfectly in the UK.

All UK channels are broadcast on UHF frequencies.

Irish channels are on VHF and UHF frequencies so Irish TV's have tuners capable of receiving both.

So what way does analog cable transmit in GB?
VHF? I know some areas have(pity them) decoders like Chorus-so not VHF and surely not UHF as the possibilities of interference would be endless??
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byte

Originally posted by madman
You can also purchase a gadget that will take in vhf cable and output all the channels it receives onto UHF.
Cannot remember what it's called but a flatmate of mine back in student days had it and it worked a treat for his UK telly as all the cable channels were "re transmitted" so when it was plugged into the UK telly you could tune them all in.
It wasn't a video sender as such as it only sent the "new" Uhf signals via a co-ax cable to the tv.

mm

I have seen the gadgets. Depending on manufacturer they're called Televerters or Cableverters. These are basic though and although I have seen them handle 2 VHF channels no probs, they don't cope as well with many VHF channels like on cable as the channels start cross-modulating. There's probably a much better, expensive converter though.

icdg

Originally posted by madman
So what way does analog cable transmit in GB?
VHF? I know some areas have(pity them) decoders like Chorus-so not VHF and surely not UHF as the possibilities of interference would be endless??
mm

In a word, yes. All cable companies in the UK supply decoders, they are not tuned in via the ordinary tuners as in Ireland. Mind you, analogue cable in the UK is getting rarer, as viewers covert to digital TV, NTL Home Digital and Telewest (first cousin of Chorus) Active Digital.

Analogue cable systems in the UK typically have around 50 channels, most were built with fibre-optic networks in mind, unlike the old co-axial networks we are still on in Ireland.

byte

50 on analogue? Goodness! Donegal Town has a maximum 15 channels including Sky Sports 1 and Sky Premier. How many channels are on analog in Dublin city?

icdg

Really a discussion for the Cable/MMDS/Broadband forum...but anyway, twenty-four.

Like I said, in the UK the system is built using fibre-optics.