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freeview uk in south dublin

  • 02-04-2009 03:59PM
    #1
    timetunnel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭


    i live out by leopardstown,
    i see a lot of tv aerial up on houses,
    can anybody tell me if they can pickup a signal for freeview uk.
    from wales or the north of ireland.
    thanks
    timetunnel


Comments

  • #2
    Emerson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Emerson


    Do yourself a favour and get a FTA satellite box. M Vision HD-200 is what I have and it does MPEG4 DTT and Sat combined so you get all channels on one EPG.

    Freeview from UK does/will share frequencies with Irish DTT/Analogue transmissions so you can never rely on it.
    Add to that, very low power compared to UK analogue it's not worth much.


  • #3
    timetunnel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭timetunnel


    have all the satellite stuff,
    the selection of channel on feeview uk are better than freesat,
    i suppose over time freesat will get the same selection.
    have you seen freeview uk working on any tv in dublin.
    i just like messing around with stuff.
    have done it with satellite. thought i might try it with freeview


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,785 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    UK freeview/dtt is not possible from leopordstown from wales.

    It might be possible on one or two fine high pressure days in the summer for 5 or 10 minutes in the evening or something but I'm sure you arent putting up an aerial for that off chance.

    As for from NI-same holds true unless by a quirk of location,perfect analogue Divis is getting through to you which in leopardstown is highly unlikely [it might happen higher up around the blue note or somewhere like that].
    Best advice is to stick with satelite.


  • #5
    Digifriendly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,169 ✭✭✭Digifriendly


    timetunnel wrote: »
    have all the satellite stuff,
    the selection of channel on feeview uk are better than freesat,
    i suppose over time freesat will get the same selection.
    have you seen freeview uk working on any tv in dublin.
    i just like messing around with stuff.
    have done it with satellite. thought i might try it with freeview

    If you've all the satellite stuff I presume you mean FTA and then you're only missing a few channels that are on Freeview e.g Dave, Sky sports News, Fiver, Five US . As you say over time Freesat will increase it's channels and if you wait long enough Five's associates will probably go FTA so I would just wait if I were you. I have both Freeview and FSFS and I watch the latter much more than the former.


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