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Sale of Channel 5
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But you'd want a Freesat HD box
A) for the other FTA HD channels
C) non-HD boxes are obsolete
D) Does anyone need Channel 5 in HD?
E) Some Freesat HD boxes support non-Freesat Diseqc (i.e. for Saorsat which is DVB-S2 only)
F) More non-Freesat channels in the future will be DVB-S2 even if not HD.
H) HDMI may be handier.
Sorry I didn't make clear why a Freesat HD box. Of course a non-HD box is very cheap, but none do DVB-S2.0 -
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But you'd want a Freesat HD box
A) for the other FTA HD channels
C) non-HD boxes are obsolete
D) Does anyone need Channel 5 in HD?
E) Some Freesat HD boxes support non-Freesat Diseqc (i.e. for Saorsat which is DVB-S2 only)
F) More non-Freesat channels in the future will be DVB-S2 even if not HD.
H) HDMI may be handier.
Sorry I didn't make clear why a Freesat HD box. Of course a non-HD box is very cheap, but none do DVB-S2.
Your post (and the thread as it happens) was specific to Channel 5.
But if you're branching it out it is/was a strange response to somebody who has Sky. You see the pay channels (sports, movies, others) are not possible on a Freesat box. Yet the version of Channel 5 you're alluding to is possible on a Sky box. So why would anyone be giving up their Skybox to buy the rather expensive box you recommend just to have it recordable via the EPG?
A strange response.
Your point D is patronising in the extreme too.0 -
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I totally agree with Watty
Which is your right - however as you say yourself....most irish people
....don't agree with him.leave watty alone
That made me smile
I'll repeat, I think
have a better idea of what they themselves want from their TV sets than either yourself or Watty (with all due respect).most irish people0 -
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I think most Irish people don't even know what Channel 5 is, I never really understood why Channel 6 took that name over Channel 5, it would have been different if it was Channel 4.
They took the name Channel 6 because it was the 6th Irish channel (Setanta Sports was the 5th)
It was actually nothing to do with UK TV.0 -
radiowaves wrote: »They took the name Channel 6 because it was the 6th Irish channel (Setanta Sports was the 5th)
It was actually nothing to do with UK TV.
Channel 5 came after many Sat UK channels, Sky One, Sky News, Sky Sports, Sky Two .... and don't forget TV5.
And it was Ireland's 7th channel if you include City Channel, 8th if you include Bubble Hits.0 -
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In fairness, if Channel 6 had called itself Channel 5, there would have been confusion alright. Heck, before Sky Digital, many in Ireland got Channel 5 thru their old satellite receivers with a Videocrpyt decoder (that's all you needed).
Also, with TV listings etc. there may have been more confusion with two C5's being listed in some publications.
Whilst that is a fair point it has absolutely no bearing on why they called themselves Channel 6
They called themselves Channel 6 because they were the sixth national Irish channel. No criteria made them the fifth. Any criteria that might do instead makes Setanta the fifth.
The Channel 5 UK example given earlier was different - that was the 5th terrestrial channel in the UK. Other channels mentioned that arrived before them were digital only.
As I said, why use a number in the name at all if a channel in the UK was a consideration. Any other name would've done.
I really don't know where this idea came from that the UK Channel 5 was a consideration. Does anyone really believe that the execs at the channel were so moronic that they could only think in numbers and as Channel 5 was used already it then had to be Channel 6? That they couldn't come up with any other name that didn't involve using a number?0 -
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I suspect they would not have called themselves Channel 5 anyway due to the UK station - it would have caused some confusion at any rate as Irish newspapers do list the UK station in their TV listings despite its lack of availablity south of the Border. TV5 would also have been out. None of us here are (as far as we know) the original backers of Channel 6 so we can but speculate.
For their first few years they were a pay-TV channel - they only became available free to air when they joined Saorview.
Again, I will ask the question, do you all seriously believe that they HAD to have a number in their name? Really??
So when they themselves realised that if they used the number 5 they might be confused with Channel 5 in the UK that the only alternative they could come up with was the next number down the line? Come on guys!!
So why not use a different word then? How about dropping the word channel and using a totally different word altogether in conjunction with the number 5? The channel's bigwigs couldn't consider this? They were that dumb?Their biggest reason may have been the 106 slot they were allocated on UPC, which was the only platform they were on when they launched.
There's a reason why they went onto 106 on cable; the name didn't come after placement (their working name was Six at the licence application stage).
Setanta Sports is Ireland's fifth channel - I'm not sure what part of that people aren't getting. At their launch they made quite a big noise calling themselves Ireland's fifth channel. Any reasons that could be argued against them not being considered Ireland's fifth channel apply equally to Channel 6 
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You can't call any of these channel the 5th service. The BAI don't issue PSB licence like Channel 5, there is only a Channel 3 and that ended up being the Forth Channel.
Setanta is a Pay TV Network
Channel Six wanted to be more than just an Entertainment Channel
If there is a 5th PSB channel its going to be UTV Ireland.
You're using a pretty specific set of parameters there
Setanta (and certainly not Channel 6) didn't call themselves the fifth PSB channel.
But Setanta, as they claimed, were the fifth Irish television channel. And judging by the name Channel 6 called themselves the 6th. That is indisputable fact.
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