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Digital Switchover - UTV Region (DigitalUK)
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Well I feel like slapping myself in the face several times. Ive been renting this house since about April this year. I could never understand why the antenna was giving such a poor picture, but not being from Ireland, I didnt really mind that I didnt receive the Irish channels. Ive been using Freesat for the last 20 months since I moved here from Scotland.
All this talk about the digital switchover motivated me in the last few weeks to try and get it working. After posting late last night with photos of my aerial, I spent hours this morning retuning to no avail. I was still only receiving appallingly weak Irish analogue channels, RTE, TV3 and some other one that was so bad I couldnt make out the logo. I wasnt able to find anything on the built in freeview tuner.
Confused that every on the Kilkeel transmitter can get good pictures, I pulled every wire apart, there is a huge array of cables in the loft running all over the place. There is already a booster and all that kind of thing. I have the aerial pointing right at the transmitter, directly through the attic window. Still no picture, other than the usual 3 analogue stations.
I was moving the surround sound out of the way at the back of the TV and I kicked the skirting board by mistake...whats this? Another cable for the TV hiding behind it (the skirting board isnt actually fixed to the wall behind the TV). Why is there two tv cable I wondered to myself. I had simply used the cable that was already attached to the TV in the house when I moved in, to go into my own TV when it arrived from Spain (where Ive been living for 4 years). I plugged it in and suddenly RTE picture was perfect! OMG why was the wrong cable plugged into the original TV in the first place? Why was the proper cable hiding behind the skirting board????
I retuned and I found 19DTV channels, loads of radio channels and 6 analogue channels this time. Thats the first time Ive had any results on anything.
Anyway, the big question I am VERY confused about is this Saorview thing. I was under the impression that the Irish analogue signals would be turned off soon, the 24th I think and to continue to receive the Irish stations, households would need to buy a TV with Saorview built in, or buy a set-top-box. My TV was bought in Tenerife 2 years ago. Its a 60PK250 LG plasma. It has a built in freeview tuner. I get the distinct impression that Im actually receiving the Saorview service on it, because I have all the channels listed on the saorview site and its in my EPG and listed under the DTV section. I also have the UK channels on DTV too, not all that are available on Freeview, like I used to get n Scotland, but all the basic ones.
Im also receiving the analogue stations and they are listed under TV (not DTV) if I scroll through the channels. Ive attached a couple of screenshots to show the same show on the DTV and on the analogue service. If I am indeed receiving the Saorview channels, and it does indeed say MPEG on the info, then why are people having to buy Saorview boxes for tvs that have a freeview tuner built in?
Maybe Im missing something altogether, but it seems like something isnt quite right.
You can see all the channels my digital tuner is picking up, where they are in the EPG and that I dont have to switch between any Saorview/Freeview options to view them.
By the way, why am I picking up such a small number of Freeview channels? There are way way more than this, its pretty much the same service as Freesat.
By the way, the reason I was picking up such a poor signal for the Irish analogue services, is that the cable that was plugged into the TV was not connected to the aerial, it was just the wire in the cable itself that was picking up a weak signal! CRINGE!
Here is Jeremy Kyle on TV3, which is analogue.
and here is the same show being broadcast and picked up by the tvs digital tuner. Is this me receiving Saorview then?
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CRM Ireland wrote: »Well I feel like slapping myself in the face several times. Ive been renting this house since about April this year. I could never understand why the antenna was giving such a poor picture, but not being from Ireland, I didnt really mind that I didnt receive the Irish channels. Ive been using Freesat for the last 20 months since I moved here from Scotland.
All this talk about the digital switchover motivated me in the last few weeks to try and get it working. After posting late last night with photos of my aerial, I spent hours this morning retuning to no avail. I was still only receiving appallingly weak Irish analogue channels, RTE, TV3 and some other one that was so bad I couldnt make out the logo. I wasnt able to find anything on the built in freeview tuner.
Confused that every on the Kilkeel transmitter can get good pictures, I pulled every wire apart, there is a huge array of cables in the loft running all over the place. There is already a booster and all that kind of thing. I have the aerial pointing right at the transmitter, directly through the attic window. Still no picture, other than the usual 3 analogue stations.
I was moving the surround sound out of the way at the back of the TV and I kicked the skirting board by mistake...whats this? Another cable for the TV hiding behind it (the skirting board isnt actually fixed to the wall behind the TV). Why is there two tv cable I wondered to myself. I had simply used the cable that was already attached to the TV in the house when I moved in, to go into my own TV when it arrived from Spain (where Ive been living for 4 years). I plugged it in and suddenly RTE picture was perfect! OMG why was the wrong cable plugged into the original TV in the first place? Why was the proper cable hiding behind the skirting board????
I retuned and I found 19DTV channels, loads of radio channels and 6 analogue channels this time. Thats the first time Ive had any results on anything.
Anyway, the big question I am VERY confused about is this Saorview thing. I was under the impression that the Irish analogue signals would be turned off soon, the 24th I think and to continue to receive the Irish stations, households would need to buy a TV with Saorview built in, or buy a set-top-box. My TV was bought in Tenerife 2 years ago. Its a 60PK250 LG plasma. It has a built in freeview tuner. I get the distinct impression that Im actually receiving the Saorview service on it, because I have all the channels listed on the saorview site and its in my EPG and listed under the DTV section. I also have the UK channels on DTV too, not all that are available on Freeview, like I used to get n Scotland, but all the basic ones.
Im also receiving the analogue stations and they are listed under TV (not DTV) if I scroll through the channels. Ive attached a couple of screenshots to show the same show on the DTV and on the analogue service. If I am indeed receiving the Saorview channels, and it does indeed say MPEG on the info, then why are people having to buy Saorview boxes for tvs that have a freeview tuner built in?
Maybe Im missing something altogether, but it seems like something isnt quite right.
You can see all the channels my digital tuner is picking up, where they are in the EPG and that I dont have to switch between any Saorview/Freeview options to view them.
By the way, why am I picking up such a small number of Freeview channels? There are way way more than this, its pretty much the same service as Freesat.
By the way, the reason I was picking up such a poor signal for the Irish analogue services, is that the cable that was plugged into the TV was not connected to the aerial, it was just the wire in the cable itself that was picking up a weak signal! CRINGE!
Here is Jeremy Kyle on TV3, which is analogue.
and here is the same show being broadcast and picked up by the tvs digital tuner. Is this me receiving Saorview then?
Wonderful post! Persistence is indeed a virtue. You are receiving the BBCA stations probably from Kilkeel, the rest will follow on the 24th of October at Stage Two. Stand by to retune again: your TV set is Pan-European DVB-T by the looks of it....0 -
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I also did a rescan for a elderly man today who could not get any signal at all on Freeview and he now has 100% signal and quality.
Roll on the 24th
Well done. I wonder if you qualify to enter the TV3 competition
Competition if you have helpled someone make the switch to digital
With only 15 days to go until analogue switch off watch the Morning Show on TV3 tomorrow the 9th October, for a chance to win a SAORVIEW approved TV. TV3 are looking for stories from people who have helped a friend, relative or neighbour make the switch to digital TV.
From 9th September for 1 week, email TV3 digital@tv3.ie with your story.
http://www.goingdigital.ie/Info/News/Competition+if+you+have+helpled+someone+make+the+switch+to+digital.htm0 -
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