How to Get the Irish DTT & Freesat Channels on a Solitary Satellite Receiver

By Claudia 5 months ago

As the official launch of the new Digital Terrestrial Tv (DTT) assistance nears in October 2010 it is well timed to outline what is desired to swap more than to the new Irish Digital Tv set technique along with the Freesat channels.

Element 1: DTT Solutions & Boxes

RTENL, who are liable for the creating the new DTT community, have finally moved to provide some clarity to the new procedure by officially christening it ‘Saorview’ – an Irish equal of the United kingdom ‘Freeview’. Presently no receivers that I know of on the current market have the Saorview sticker but this will occur in time. The essential prerequisites of the procedure will be that it will be

  • MPEG2/4: In which the DTT will all be MPEG4, the box will be backward compatible with MPEG2
  • MHEG5 software program: Which will aid Interactive products and services on the bins

Two of the vital reasons there are currently reasonably couple of boxes on the marketplace which suit Irish needs are:

  • Eire is a somewhat compact marketplace – which is off placing from an R&D invest point of view
  • Most other EU nations around the world e.g. United kingdom are making use of MPEG2. Some small (& quite nicely bankrupt) countries this kind of are Greece and Portugal are using / trialling MPEG4 boxes but not in Majors numbers.

Currently the primary (& likely the ideal) receiver on the current market is the Triax TR110. This is just one of the most well-liked Conventional definition DTT receivers, the 7 Day EPG functions perfectly, it has an RF out to make it possible for you to loop the output of the receiver to other rooms, additionally a loop by means of for the analogue Channels. Alternatively you acquire this receiver as aspect of a Kit.

Channels available: RTE 1, RTE2, Television set3 (test card), TG4, RTE Information

Part 2: Satellite receivers

A problem with the TR110 receiver is that you however require a independent satellite system

which will let you acquire all the Freesat channels such as BBC 1,2,3,4, ITV, Channel 4, sky information and many others.

Downside: this implies, 2 boxes, 2 remote controls, additionally you have no Hd or PVR (to enable you pause or rewind live Tv set) services.

Section 3: Solitary Box Solution – Combo Satellite & DTT receivers

A neat answer comes in the variety of the Edision Argus 2in1 combo satellite & DTT receiver. This box seriously has it all:

  • it has both equally Satellite Dish and DTT inputs on the back of the box this means all the channels show up on a one channel line up.
  • The box can manage both of those Hd and Normal definition transmissions
  • and the addition of a 250GB challenging travel lets you pause and document Television.
  • Also it will come with the all important IP port

The moment you have a Satellite Dish and UHF Tv set Aerial set up, you can use the edision argus 2in1 combo receiver to look at both equally Irish DTT and Freesat satellite Television.

One insignificant gripe is that it is not attainable to glance at the Satellite channels while recording at the Irish channels & vice versa. But you can document one particular DTT channel whilst hunting at another DTT channel. The 7 Day EPG functions well on the DTT side, but so fantastic on the Satellite.

When compared to its competitor solutions from Potent, Mvision or Triax it is substantially more affordable, has extra options and most importantly particularly trustworthy, with return rates of considerably less than 1%.

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