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What do you think will happen after October 24th ?

Nick Guats · 2012-01-22 20:23:00

I predict a few thousand older folk with blank screens and lots of calls to Joe Duffy from people saying its a disgrace Joe i didn't know this analogue switch off would effect me

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#52 27-01-2012 6:05pm

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Machinehead wrote: »

Don't know if this has been posted yet.

Link: http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2012/01/26/saorsat-to-launch-in-february/

I posted it yesterday over in the Saorsat thread - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76732192#post76732192

The document they refer is probably the latest RTÉNL-Saorview FAQ rev.6, they expect it to be formally live in Feb or Mar.

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#53 27-01-2012 8:14pm

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tlaavtech wrote: »

Almost certain that you will get the scrolling message before the 24th, and old fashioned white noise after.

A lot of modern TVs do not display snow/noise at all (in absense of a signal) - they go to a blue or black mute.
Sometimes faults in transmission amplifiers (non-linearity affecting Sync Pulse level) can result in the picture mute coming on on TVs with this 'feature' even though there is a flawed but watchable picture!
This actually was happening last weekend on RTE2 analogue (Ch59) via Crosshaven relay in County Cork - which covers a large percentage of Cork Harbour/Cobh/Carrigaline. The RTE2 picture was horizontally 'shaky'/prone to vertical rolling/darker than normal and sound muting going on and off. Much more annoying was for viewers with TVs with picture muting - every few second the picture was muted. It is often possible to turn off the picture muting in a menu (on A JVC CRT I tried -the option is called 'Blue Back' under 'Features' in the menu. ).
The Crosshaven problem was fixed on Monday AFAIK.

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