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MUX 2 launch date ?

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    #392
    Souriau
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭Souriau


    CH Mux 2 fired up again
    same singal strengh as Mux 1
    Nothing transmitted atm


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    #393
    jamescc
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭jamescc


    nothing from three rock


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    #394
    glimmerman123
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭glimmerman123


    Mux 2 from Maghera not fired up either.


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    #395
    warlikedave
    Registered Users Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭warlikedave


    nothing from mount leinster


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    #396
    jamescc
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭jamescc


    58 is back on again . the test screen is back up


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    #397
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    jamescc wrote: »
    58 is back on again . the test screen is back up

    Good find. The FuBK card is gone, replaced with a 4:3 PM5544. There's also some other new cards on there. My TV is also picking up a data service on channel 300 named SSU.


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    #398
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,262 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Yes, mux 2 coming in from Kippure...

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #399
    glimmerman123
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭glimmerman123


    No mux 2 from Maghera yet.


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    #400
    Souriau
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭Souriau


    Nothing from Cairn Hill


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    #401
    pa990
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭pa990


    Nothing from Spur Hill
    or Mullaghanish (but i have a very poor reception from their anyway)


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    #402
    aerial man
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭aerial man


    ninja900 wrote: »
    Yes, mux 2 coming in from Kippure...

    We're getting the 2nd mux from kippure aswell. Have they shown anything on it or is it just the test cards with the RTENL?


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    #403
    marclt
    Registered Users Posts: 844 ✭✭✭marclt


    Anything from Mt. Leinster?


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    #404
    aerial man
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭aerial man


    marclt wrote: »
    Anything from Mt. Leinster?

    When I checked on Sunday, there wasn't however I don't think there will be until the swtichover, however I'll check over the weekend when I'm home


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    #405
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    I doubt any Mux2 until either Oireachtas TV launches or a 2nd channel goes HD format. At the minute a 2nd mux isn't needed and would double transmission cost.


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    #406
    aerial man
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭aerial man


    watty wrote: »
    I doubt any Mux2 until either Oireachtas TV launches or a 2nd channel goes HD format. At the minute a 2nd mux isn't needed and would double transmission cost.

    When would you think there might be a second HD channel? I presume TG4 and TV3 are strongly considering it at the moment?


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    #407
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    EVENTUALLY....
    RTE1, TG4 and TV3 will be HD format. As to how much decent HD content is another story.

    Don't hold your breath. But it will happen.
    3D is less likely as it makes HD be 1/2 the quality or else needs nearly twice the spectrum. It's not actually 3D but Stereoscopic 2D, doesn't even work for 20% of people and makes many more uncomfortable after prolonged viewing. Current "3D" is an overpriced gimmick.


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    #408
    aerial man
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭aerial man


    watty wrote: »
    doesn't even work for 20% of people and makes many more uncomfortable after prolonged viewing. Current "3D" is an overpriced gimmick.

    I'd agree, personally i find it uncomfortable. I'd prefer decent HD, most people who have "3D" that I've worked for, never use it after the first or second DVD. It 's more of a passing phase until real 3D comes about.

    Regarding the Oireachtas TV and switching on MUX2, could they use the first MUX or is the bandwidth near its maximum?


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    #409
    zg3409
    Registered Users Posts: 6,613 ✭✭✭zg3409


    aerial man wrote: »
    Oireachtas TV and switching on MUX2, could they use the first MUX or is the bandwidth near its maximum?

    According to RTENL the current Mux is basically full. If anything needs to be added they need to go with the second Mux. The good news then is that they can instantly have a few more channels HD.

    The only catch is RTE has only one studio with HD capable cameras at the moment and as of today they cannot feed HD from that studio to the transmission network. This will be fixed soon as they are upgrading their internal studio to studio switching system.

    Their initial plan was to move to an entire new building but that never happened. There is a massive logisitical problem upgrading studios that are in use daily and installing new cabling in a building that is 110% full of cables installed since the 1960s.


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    #410
    Machinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Machinehead


    Mux 2 ch. 55 now fired up from Maghera. Usual test services but now has a "data" channel labeled "SSU" ch. no. 800, which I haven't seen before.
    Mulla still silent on ch. 24.


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    #411
    twinklerunner
    Registered Users Posts: 902 ✭✭✭twinklerunner


    Machinehead wrote: »
    Mux 2 ch. 55 now fired up from Maghera. Usual test services but now has a "data" channel labeled "SSU" ch. no. 800, which I haven't seen before.
    Mulla still silent on ch. 24.

    That SSU Channel is doubling up with RTÉ1 on my TV here, from Kippure.


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    #412
    MBSnr
    Registered Users Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭MBSnr


    Machinehead wrote: »
    Mux 2 ch. 55 now fired up from Maghera. Usual test services but now has a "data" channel labeled "SSU" ch. no. 800, which I haven't seen before.
    Mulla still silent on ch. 24.

    Are you seeing Ch 55 at a lower power level? Ch 48 is around 70% but Ch 55 is only about 40% for me.

    EDIT: Scrub that. My other TV has same % levels on both ch's, so I must be getting greater signal loss for that freq. over the combined sat/DTT cable.


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    #413
    Machinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Machinehead


    I know that Mux2 testing has been going on at the main Tx sites for some time now, but in view of the ASO in a few months, I don't recall any Mux2 activity being repoted at any of the smaller lower powered sites particularly in my area in Kerry.
    Has anyone seen the proposed Mux2 channel/frequency allocation for these smaller sites?


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    #414
    The Cush
    Registered Users Posts: 15,512 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Machinehead wrote: »
    Has anyone seen the proposed Mux2 channel/frequency allocation for these smaller sites?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056427289


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    #415
    Machinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Machinehead


    Strange they left Mux 2 ch 55 from Maghera on all weekend with no content.
    Another thing is I have my TV set to auto screen format & all Saorview channels automatically switch to 16:9 but test service 4 auto switches to 4:3 when selected. I would have thought 4:3 was banished with today's tech.


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    #416
    glimmerman123
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭glimmerman123


    Machinehead wrote: »
    Strange they left Mux 2 ch 55 from Maghera on all weekend with no content.
    Another thing is I have my TV set to auto screen format & all Saorview channels automatically switch to 16:9 but test service 4 auto switches to 4:3 when selected. I would have thought 4:3 was banished with today's tech.
    Yes I was expecting Mux 2 to be switched off around 4pm Friday last. Still on now from Maghera.


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    #417
    glimmerman123
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭glimmerman123


    Mux 2 from Maghera now switched off. Went off around 2pm.


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    #418
    jamescc
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭jamescc


    stil on from 3 rock


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    #419
    thomasking22008
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭thomasking22008


    When there mux 2 launch for 7 new channel ? And what channe will be on future ?


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    #420
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Oireachtas TV is the only extra channel on the horizon.
    Maybe 2014 TG4 or TV3 will have HD. Any additional channel going HD need the 2nd Mux activated.

    There will not be seven new channels. Probably not inside next 10 years.


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    #421
    The Cush
    Registered Users Posts: 15,512 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Mux 2 testing from Mullaghanish with testcards


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