Insert inane "UTV and Channel 4 coming soon to Sky Digital" comment here.

potoole · 03-12-2002 01:06PM

Yes, they are on the STB and the ordinary Analogue service. I have a feeling though that NTL are broadcasting a different version of BBC2(at least once anyway) than their analogue service. I was horrified on the day the new series of The Office started to switch to BBC2 only to be greeted by some chat show I'd never seen before. This was on the STB. When I turned to the analogue version though, there was David Brent in all his glory. Panic over

Thanks LFC, The Digital version of BBC2 NI is slightly different from the analogue one. They learned their lesson after 1 week of replacing "the office" with some local talk show, so we got to see the rest of the series.

watty · 03-12-2002 04:23PM

If they had their networks all upgraded to digital there wouldn't be multiroom viewing. Analog MMDS will be first to go.

Multiroom might stay longer for basic analog pack. But Chorus and NTL digital services is Just like Sky or Freeview, Multiroom, if you all watch the same channel.

A friend of mine has "mulitroom" equvialent of Family Pack at 60 Euro a month. At Current Sky prices you could have two Digiboxes for that and when "mirror" sub comes in, three digiboxes.

Different channels in different rooms without a separate set-top box for each TV is reaching its sellby date.

In UK they seem serious about getting rid of Analog, which means even for Off Air, you will need multiple Set-top boxes or TVs with "digital" tuners instead of analog ones (Actually all digital systems: Sat, Cable, DTT, MMDS use an analog tuner followed by a DSP chip which is like multiple modems (QAM decoder), followed by demultiplex/error correction then MPEG2 decoder).

gonker · 05-12-2002 08:25PM

I was in Portlaoise shopping centre today and there was a sky tv stand and the woman asked me would I be interested in sky. I couldnt resist pretending that I hadnt got it and asked if UTV and C4 would be on soon. Her Reply "Oh yes they are testing at the moment so should be on very soon". Gee I havent seen any news of tests! Anybody out there or is it another pack of lies from sky (surely not);) :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
gonk

Tom · 06-12-2002 09:49AM

They had a SKy Stand in the canteen in work yesterday and I asked the same question. Firstly I was told that UTV was already on 103. I disputed this and was told that it is there and I should just keep searching through all the channels until I found it!?!?!?!
Again I disputed this and was told that they would be on by Christmas. Strangely I don't believe this....

On another subject, I asked about SKY+ and second subscriptions and was told that they would be here in February.

robert muldoon · 06-12-2002 06:48PM

Is there not already a thread open on this whole subject and can it be merged, Moderator?

seano · 06-12-2002 07:20PM

You .T.V is on 229.so if you call sky looking for UTV they will say it is already there ,and in this case they are not spoofing.

cupthehand · 08-12-2002 11:36AM

Originally posted by seano
You .T.V is on 229.so if you call sky looking for UTV they will say it is already there ,and in this case they are not spoofing.

Ah surely one of the greatest channels of all time....:D
Seriously though i am very onfident of having UTV and Channel 4 for Christmas.......Christmas 2003 :rolleyes:

robert muldoon · 08-12-2002 10:44PM

Originally posted by cupthehand
Ah surely one of the greatest channels of all time....:D
Seriously though i am very onfident of having UTV and Channel 4 for Christmas.......Christmas 2003 :rolleyes:

And whats makes you so confident??

Ozzie · 08-12-2002 11:12PM

A friend of mine just got sky... he was assured by the reputable(!) installer that UTV and C4 would be on Sky in January with a huge promotional campaign. Similarly, the mirror subscription would be here at the same time for about €10 a month.

I'm not sure, but if it's true I'm a V. happy chap!!!!

Anyone else hear this????????????????

JDxtra · 09-12-2002 01:49PM

Agghhh, this has being going on for years! Rumours, rumours, rumours...! I'm just so tired of hearing about C4 and UTV "coming soon".

This is so old news! A film crew from Sky's backchat programme (the old one with the guy from "The Word") actually came to my work place here in Dublin to film my question for them for channel 999 (which was the customer channel at the time)...

Q. Why can't Irish subscribers get the UK channels such as UTV, C4?

At the time it was filmed (Novemeber 2000) I was told that it was looking likely that it would happen in the very near future.

And this was 2 years ago, yes 2 years! (Eventhough they filmed me, Sky never actually screened my question!).

Now, can we give it a rest please! I'm tired....

Mossy Monk · 09-12-2002 10:21PM

Originally posted by jdempsey
Now, can we give it a rest please!

don't read the thread

byte · 09-12-2002 11:17PM

It's a pity to hear rumours of January launch! I really did want Channel Four for Crimbo! :rolleyes:

Thank God for FTV cards!:D

channelsurfer · 10-12-2002 09:21PM

i would not hold my breath waiting for utv c4 to come onto sky it looks as if carlton and granada are too mean to pay for the irish rights to certain event s (champions league etc) and figure that the return ffrom the extra subs money they would receive would not outweigh the cost of adding utv to the sky line up ( i know utv is seperate from granada) but dont forget as long as granada are shareholders in tv3 they will be in no rush to allow utv on to compete and take advertsing away from them.

Charles Slane · 11-12-2002 02:29AM

Isn't it a shame that anyone can start a thread with Channel 4 or UTV/ITV in the title without so much as a question mark, and get everyone on the board slavering with anticipation ?

I've been reading this forum for a few years now and the amount of misinformation that's casually posted has been amazing.

Last October we had the promises of UTV/Channel 4 on the Irish sub and widescreen Sky One/News, neither of which came to pass.

I know we all hear different rumours from time to time, but they should be posted as such (rumours !) and not falsely raise people's hopes without any real grounds.

Meanwhile I may go and start a thread titled "UTV/Channel 4 in March" and watch the replies mount up.

(And for all we know at the moment, I may just be right !)

DMC · 11-12-2002 08:29AM

And you are right Charles, its pure nonsense. Only an offical press release from Sky and Channel 4 & UTV will I sit up and take notice.

I kept this thread seperate til now, just_in_case, a fresh thread...... but now......

Thread merged.

carrolls · 11-12-2002 12:03PM

Yeah somebody should start a campaign to stop this happening.

Charles Slane · 11-12-2002 12:46PM

Originally posted by carrolls
Yeah somebody should start a campaign to stop this happening.

.:D .:D .:D .:D

To be honest, the campaign thread has probably had it's day as well. It was a nice idea at the time, but people get tired pretty quickly of getting the same old replies from Sky and the BBC time after time

DMC · 11-12-2002 01:03PM

As much as it pains me, I agree Charles.... Time to unstick the 2nd most viewed thread on boards.... it was number 1 until the UTVip thread on IrelandOffline passed it out.... Irony of Ironies.....

ShaneOC · 11-12-2002 01:20PM

Maybe we should try and combine the two. I believe that a UTVip representative actually came on board and was able to answer peoples queries. It is a pity that the same thing did not happen with the campaign thread.

I still believe that well written letters do get a response. The more of them that are sent the better. It may not do any good, but it will not hurt.

I would leave the sticky as it probably prevents loads of threads being opened asking about the channels that we are missing.

robert muldoon · 12-12-2002 12:47PM

Originally posted by carrolls
My friend in Montrose has informed me that BSkyB (Or whoever controls the EPG) have been given the go-ahead to switch on UTV and Channel 4 in the Republic some time in October. Probably the third Monday in October. She has never been wrong about these things before, so I think its for real.

What ever happened to your friend in Montrose- What is she saying now??

carrolls · 12-12-2002 03:15PM

Hitler had plans to invade Britain.
Al Gore had plans for the White House.
What do they say about the best laid plans?
Why wern't UTV and Channel 4 switched on?
The people concerned just changed their minds.
What can I say?
24 hours is a long time in broadcasting.

13-12-2002 12:21PM

Actually, if they were talking about it in Montrose, it was never going to happen....
In that TV3/Granada must have been talking about it aswell to Sky and throwing spanners in the works.

mm

jabarrett35 · 16-12-2002 04:43PM

Hi I noticed today while looking at ch4 active BB game that they have the price of a call for the Republic of Ireland. Could this be an indication that Ch4 is planning to launch on the Irish EPG?Because CH4 active is not availabel on E4 on the Irish EPG at present or it was not last night.

trekster · 16-12-2002 09:34PM

Thats because the BB game is also available through sky active games and has been since the irish games service launched. so not a sign

jkehoe · 22-12-2002 08:48PM

The new SKY magazine (Irish edition) says that American Pop Idol is going to be on ITV2 in January......Does this mean that we are getting ITV2 in Ireland ?....is this progress ?

_Kaiser_ · 22-12-2002 08:59PM

That'd be nice (if it arrived with the rest of em

) but more likely it's just something that appeared in the UK mag and made it into ours as well - similarly to how the "Irish" editions of the UK papers still contain loads of UK ads and offers - still, I'd be happy to be wrong on this one

Merry Xmas all....

22-12-2002 10:39PM

And if you go page 38 of this months magazine, they mention UTV and I thought that was purged on their print programme as a swear word:rolleyes:
mm

Paddy20 · 28-12-2002 04:09PM

Personally, I am just lost for words on the whole issue?...
IMHO even UTV and CH4 are the real "viewer" losers which can not help their - essential - advertising revenue incomes - or ratings, IDIOTS!.

Yours,

Paddy20

captainpat · 30-12-2002 02:54AM

As UTVip have been so open and straight in their dealings with the Republic customers on Boards.ie, could some of their subscribers for Internet services quiz them on what their TV cousins are doing on this? :rolleyes:

DMC · 30-12-2002 11:10AM

Folks, read back a few pages.... Its down to internal ITV politics!

UTV has not appeared on Sky in the ROI, as TV3 has a lot of UTV's networked programming from ITV and TV3 is owned by Granada, the biggest shareholder in ITV. If UTV was on Sky down here, revenue would be down for TV3, and Granada cant be having any of that! :rolleyes:

Insert inane "UTV and Channel 4 coming soon to Sky Digital" comment here.

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