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Statutory requirement to maintain Aertel to be removed

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
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    I would guess tho that a lot more people use aertel and longwave than use Saorsat



  • #33
    emaherx
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120453839#Comment_120453839

    But Saorsat has another function as it acts as a backup to the terrestrial transmitters in case of failure to their primary uplinks. What's left of Aertel is of very little use or interest to the vast majority of people.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120442656#Comment_120442656

    I doubt many share this opinion though, vastly better access to both news and weather on a smartphone or almost any other web enabled device. Aertel was annoying to use even back when it was a full service in the analogue days.



  • #34
    Montage of Feck
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    Was completely unaware that the old teletext still exists nevermind that anybody actually uses it.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Is it just news and TV listings that's left now on aertel? Is it true that its TV guide only lists Bog 1 & Bog 2 now like it were 1983?



  • #36
    cml387
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    I wonder if some people would have wanted RTE to keep the old 405 line system working because they "like my old Bush TV".



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  • #37
    letovo3275
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120494334#Comment_120494334

    🤣 agreed

    RTE are a bit rubbish at noticing these technical problems for sure but what are you going to do with a broadcaster that keeps cutting off the end credits of films with "The End" for no reason.

    at a guess I'd say the present version of the old Aertel teletext service is some project they gave to keep a trainee busy and its just lucky it still works at all.



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