Just seen announced that the Sky News channel will be added to Saorview. Be interesting to see will any more broadcasters follow in the coming months/years!
A lot of dense people on twitter are saying WHY ARE SAORVIEW GIVING US SKY NEWS, NOT FRANCE 24,EURONEWS or CNN ! Facepalm
I'd actually prefer any of those on HD.
But beggers can't be choosers.
Hopefully the PQ will be corrected, and there will be more channels top follow.
Comparing to what I see on youtube it seems to be zoomed in a little, so there's an 'inch' or 2 missing around the circumference.
and there will be more channels top follow
Couple of problems with that - they will only do it if the advertising pays for it and they make money on top plus plus surely cross border licencing comes into effect as well. The more channels eating in to the adertising revenue is gonna affect the Irish stations. I see Sky News is running some Irish ads but mainly Sky promo ads
Not sure how it works with Sky at the mo - maybe someone else is more in the know?
Would love to see more channels on Saorview, the likes of C4 are very receptive to the Irish audience allowing online playback (with Irish ads) unlike the BBC where its a big no no
Picture quality is abysmal. It is the worst on all of Saorview and that is some achievement.
It's definitely better than virgin media channels... SD is a pity though...
Still same when I checked earlier. It could be much better, a simple tweak is all that's needed. Very annoying to watch it on a larger screen.
I wonder if their systems are all setup for SD channels at the lower resolution - and this higher resolution has messed something up.
ITV and BBC only offer content to UK licence holders. Which is why Freesat / Freeview isn't offered here except as unavoidable overspill remember they used to encrypt it.
C4 doesn't get license fee monies even though it's owned by the UK Govt. So they've no such problems.
MUX 2 Bitrates 24Mb/s Sky News is magenta in the chart at the bottom ( Via 2RN see also mux 1 )
I've looked at it again, this might sound a contradiction in terms, but the picture quality, leaving out the text, is actually not bad, definitely better than Virgin channels. However, text and scrolling ticker bars are a big part of a news channel. Of course full HD is the answer, but Sky will keep HD for subscribers and Virgin are just cheap skates who won't pay up for HD, I am surprised though at TG4, being state subsidised and part funded by RTE, that they aren't in HD on Saorview.
I know it's because those channels haven't paid to be carried, but given RTÉ's involvement in Euronews and the strong Irish connection to France 24, it would make sense for them to be included in some way.
I've been watching the YouTube feed on my TV for a while, and the Saorview feed is strikingly low-res on the same screen.
Has anyone heard back from 2RN/Saorview?
I've heard nothing back at all.
Black / Green screen here on channel 23 Sky News .. not a great start, problems after 3 days broadcasting on Saorview ..
It's back.
Working fine here
The picture now seems to be improved / less pixelated looking than it was on first launch. Looks like they may have done something this evening? Anyone else notice this improved picture?
Looks just as bad to me
They've fixed the picture size tho, don't know when they did that, so its not cut off at the top etc
Maybe worth asking Sky directly…
In my experience, the likes of 2rn/Saorview/RTE tend not to reply to queries from the general public.
They did reply to me on a couple of occasions, once with a DAB issue and another with an unexpected outage on a relay.
Call them on the telephone. Difficult to not reply to someone when they're on the telephone.
Only learnt today about sky News being on Saorview after my brother tuned into it today.
Nice to see it on Saorview.
But i can only feel that it is 10 years too late.
Just wondering are Sky using there Freeview NI feed for Saorview .
They have an ROI feed already that they're using (AFAIK) - this would be the feed used on sky in Ireland already...
Yes, Having Sky news on board 10 years ago would have been a great selling point for Saorview when comparing it to the then outgoing 3 or 4 channel land analogue service.
Great to a have a news channel on in the morning, even if it is sky; it's very annoying that both France 24 and Euronews, replaced by Infomercials and radio one, bought go off the air on saorview just as most people would be waking up.
If you are streaming a firestick is great for these news channels and you can even get Sky News in full HD free.
I’d say the main issue is Sky News’ graphic and ident package is very much designed for HD only. That scan line they included in the recent refresh is extremely annoying though. It always makes me feel like there’s something wrong with the TV as you get this analogue style line moving down the graphics all the time. It looks ok in HD and awful in SD.
I just noticed the other day I can press the microphone button on my Fire Stick remote and just say Sky News, it will turn on the tv and start streaming it from the app with no other input.
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