Re: Irish Channels on Sky Dig

LegacyUser

Tanya mentions the channel Setanta Sport as having hurling rights to the UK.As far as I know this channel is not widly available to the public.Its probably aimed at pubs and bookies with motorised sats.I cant remember where its broadcast but i think its on some hard to reach Intelsat or something.Its certainly not on Astra or Hotbird.And as Peewee says a large number of ppl seem 2 be getting sky.Anytime i walk in2 Dixons in Blanchardstown you always overhear more ppl buying sky.One thing that suprises me is the way that ppl just stroll in with no real intention of buying sky,see sky,say 2 themselves"hmmm,sky,think ill buy that."Just like that!I had 2 beg my Dad 2 get sky.I kinda rushed him in2 it as we had been thinking about getting it 4 a while,but when the free dish and box offer came i convinced him the 50 quid offer mightnt last 4ever.So basically that sealed the deal.Will the free dish and box offer still be there when sky analogue switches off?Its main purpose in the beginning was proabably 2 convert analogue subscribers but since there will be none by June will the offer last?In England the offers been around about 2 yrs so i think most ppl who want sky already have it.But Ireland is still attracting a large amt of subscribers.

LegacyUser

don't sentana made programmes for various broadcasters too. Tara are showing gaelic games in the UK this summer.

LegacyUser

Got an email from TV3 today stating simply the following:

There are no currant plans to broadcast on Sky Digital but it is under consideration.
Regards,
TV3

There u go. Maybe if TV3 got inundated with loadsa emails, fonecalls, etc they may react quicker. That goes for RTÉ and Channel Four aswell. I emailed C4 last week but got no reply as yet. C5 i doubt will ever be on.

LegacyUser

Dear Mr Gopher,

How long does it take to get SkyDigital installed? From when you order to when you can watch it.

Richard

LegacyUser

If I can jump in, do not go through an Eircom Store to get it done. Here in Dublin, their installers will not go higher on your house than the top of the ladder, and often that is only at halfway up a gable end, rather than at the apex. They'll never go near a chimney! And it is slower to organise, takes longer to get it installed, around 2 weeks. Dixons are more or less the same.

I had a friend of the family's to install it for me, 4 days after filling out the forms with my local friendly indepenent retailer. The viewing card came the very next next day, which was quicker than normal. And that was just 3 weeks before Christmas. In the midlands, it might be as quick than in a major population centre.

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LegacyUser

"Richard, when and why did you pull the site down?? One of the originals and one of the best TV sites around, gone..."

I feel I didn't have enough time to devote to it to do it justice. Also, much of the material contained within was already avaialble elsewhere. When I started, there were no other N Irish sites (and very few Irish sites full stop) devoted to TV and it was unique. Now it has been overtaken by other, better sites whose owners have more time to devote to them. Anyone (yourself included) who wants to use any, or all of the material contained within the site, e-mail me privately (see <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://tvzone.come.to/&quot; OLDREF="">tvzone.come.to</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> for address) and I will provide you with any of it you feel you can use.

I may put the unique bits of the site up again, but there will be no further updates past that.

LegacyUser

Thanks Richard, for the offer, but I am in the same boat as yourself, no time to devote to my site at all. (But most of it is still current, except for no update to the new look UTV) When new sites come along with bigger and better archives, it can be disheartening. The one good thing about "Teilifis", my Eurovision section is as complete as it can be, it's current and it's still unique to my site.

Thanks again, but I could be pawning off my site soon-ish as well.

Unless........ an Irish Version of Transdiffusion? A central archive of Irish TV material, that many users contribute to? Just an item for discussion, just to be thrown amoungst you all.....

LegacyUser

This is my first post here all so how ya doing!

Damo:
"Unless........ an Irish Version of Transdiffusion? A central archive of Irish TV material, that many users contribute to? Just an item for discussion, just to be thrown amoungst you all..... "

Not sure about the technical implications of that, and which webmasters would take the ringleader's roles, (I could do it if you liked!) but could be an idea for the future :-) not sure how TBS would react to it though!

LegacyUser

It depends on the installer Richard.Mine took 5 WEEKS TO COME![But they are a small independant retailer.]A friend of mine waited over 2 months.I would think that larger stores would install faster.[eg-currys,dixons]I ordered mine in september,when the free offer arrived and there was huge demand.Since its probably a bit quiter now it would probably take less time.

LegacyUser

Since its probably a bit quiter now it would probably take less time.

It might take ages very soon, once word gets around about the BBC! Maybe that's why they are not bringing BBC TWO onstream till next month (apart from the fact that it will be easier as BBC TWO ni will start then) to stagger take-up

LegacyUser

And theres also the fact that remaining analogue sky customers will have to convert now or will have no service within months[hardly have a service now anyway with the recent closure of History and UK Gold along with about 10 others.It seems the only good channels left are sky 1 and news,MTV and Discovery.And Bravo[if its still there].Oh yeah, and Paramount.

LegacyUser

"does any one know if . .

1. when rte goes dtt in 2002? will the analog service stop?"

No, not for a few more years beyond that, and even then only when there has been an acceptable uptake of digital TV.