RTE off air?

looksee

Is it just us or has RTE television gone off air for anyone else today?

Mr Cumulonimbus

If you are receiving Saorview from Clermont Carn (Louth) you need to retune to UHF channel 52. If its Mount Leinster (Carlow) it's 23.

bodonnell

Mother in law has lost all saorview channels on her lg tv with built in tuner, & on a small dvbt receiver plugged into a scart. She lives in Raheen area of Limerick & was receiving every thing fine up until a few days ago. Tried retuning but neither is receiving any signal. Anyone else in area with problems

dave98

Im in the grange and all working fine

watty

Woodcock hill (serving Limerick) is fine.

Tim the Enchanter

In waterford and have lost saorview from today.

danjo-xx

+1 re above post.


edit: ooops thought that said they hadn't lost it.

ok here in city (Waterford) near supervalue, so far anyway.

MarkK

If you have lost Saorview you need to retune your Saorview box or Saorview TV.
Two of the main transmitters have changed frequency and you need to retune to pick up this change.

Tim the Enchanter

MarkK wrote: »

If you have lost Saorview you need to retune your Saorview box or Saorview TV.
Two of the main transmitters have changed frequency and you need to retune to pick up this change.

Would it not be a good idea to give those people in areas affected by these changes prior warning, or does our licence fee not cover that!!

testicle

Tim the Enchanter wrote: »

Would it not be a good idea to give those people in areas affected by these changes prior warning, or does our licence fee not cover that!!

Personal phone call is it?

MarkK

Tim the Enchanter wrote: »

Would it not be a good idea to give those people in areas affected by these changes prior warning, or does our licence fee not cover that!!

They did advertise the change.

Sam Russell

Tim the Enchanter wrote: »

Would it not be a good idea to give those people in areas affected by these changes prior warning, or does our licence fee not cover that!!

They are running adverts on TV at the moment. CC and Mount Leinster - retune.

Tim the Enchanter

Tim the Enchanter wrote: »

Would it not be a good idea to give those people in areas affected by these changes prior warning, or does our licence fee not cover that!!

Unfortunately due to the nature of digital transmission it's not possible to display on-screen captions. Every transmitter receives the same multiplexed feed, for a caption to be displayed they'd have to demux the feed at the TX site, decode the MPEG-4 video, insert the caption, re-encode the video and remux the stream. Which isn't really doable.

toby2111

Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »

you need to retune to UHF channel 52.

How exactly do I retune to UHF channel 52?My Dad is having the same problems and I just told him to go into the Menu option,installation and press retune.Will that be OK?

boiledsweets

just got the key in the door,to find the same thing rte isnt on,dunno whats happening,internets fine though so might just kick the feet back on the net with some coffee and chocolate no dinner day today!!

prettygurrly

boiledsweets wrote: »

no dinner day today!!

you trying to save money?!!

Tim the Enchanter

testicle wrote: »

Personal phone call is it?

Well done!!! Print media maybe?? I watch rte mostly in the evening and have not once seen the advert. But then again rte wont tie up prime evening advertising slots with worth while information.

looksee

Once I established that it was a matter of retuning, even though I am totally hopeless with tvs etc, I didn't have any problem retuning the tv, it did itself! All sorted.

Tim the Enchanter

Karsini wrote: »

Unfortunately due to the nature of digital transmission it's not possible to display on-screen captions. Every transmitter receives the same multiplexed feed, for a caption to be displayed they'd have to demux the feed at the TX site, decode the MPEG-4 video, insert the caption, re-encode the video and remux the stream. Which isn't really doable.

Too much jargon! So although dtv is the only way to go, in one sense its gone backwards!

ZeRoY

Weird, Samsung TV did not need re-tune but the SV-201 did. Are they gonna randomely do that every so often?

boiledsweets

prettygurrly wrote: »

you trying to save money?!!

No just a pig out day,i have one once a week,its just a matter of picking a day to have it!

MarkK

ZeRoY wrote: »

Weird, Samsung TV did not need re-tune but the SV-201 did. Are they gonna randomely do that every so often?

The change you were retuning to pick up was actually done on the 24th of October. So if you have tuned in the Samsung TV since then, it would have picked up the new frequency automatically.

In the UK they have a retune every few months, Saorview will probably have fewer retunes as we have fewer channels.

STB

Doesnt this thread belong in the after hours forum.

These guys are not interested in the answer (already given in the thread already).

RTFM. Its a glossy thing that came with the TV/box.

toby2111

Anyone know how to retune a Ferguson Ariva 150 combi box?I did a multi satellite scan but still can't get the Irish channels.

toby2111

toby2111 wrote: »

Anyone know how to retune a Ferguson Ariva 150 combi box?I did a multi satellite scan but still can't get the Irish channels.

You'd need to do a terrestrial scan rather than a satellite scan.

jjf1974

toby2111 wrote: »

Anyone know how to retune a Ferguson Ariva 150 combi box?I did a multi satellite scan but still can't get the Irish channels.

You have to do a terrestrial scan either manual or automatic

toby2111

Ok thanks, will i lose the satellite channels if i do a terrestrial scan?

jjf1974

toby2111 wrote: »

Ok thanks, will i lose the satellite channels if i do a terrestrial scan?

No they are already stored.

Tim the Enchanter

STB wrote: »

Doesnt this thread belong in the after hours forum.

These guys are not interested in the answer (already given in the thread already).

RTFM. Its a glossy thing that came with the TV/box.

Remind us never to look for advice here again so! Point is why should we need to come here to find the answers. btw manuals arent always glossy and they dont inform of regional frequency changes.. Like the user name!!

MustangMick

toby2111 wrote: »

Ok thanks, will i lose the satellite channels if i do a terrestrial scan?

No, the automatic Terrestrial scan puts the updated channels at the end of the Menu. Just move them back to their previous locations in your Favourites menu. Takes a few minutes, Yellow Button / OK button frenzy.....

Now as for my Panasonic G10B that could be a different kettle of fish. Will have a go once missus has finished her telly viewing tonight.

Mick

miochain

I have a Samsung led tv. Tuned into saorview no problem a few weeks ago. Now my transmitter has changed to channel 52. When I auto tune or manual tune to ch 52 I get no channels. Any ideas?

larchill

Manually re-tuned to channel 52 Clermont Cairn this evening. Was on channel 53 before that. This obviously went off today. I see they've upped the power - Signal & Quality now @ 100% (was 30/40% & 80% previously).

marclt

They could just send a MHEG caption to all transmitters stating that if you're in the SE or NE you will need to retune.

It's been happening here in the UK for various retunes happening at the moment.

Bit late for any adverts now, if people haven't done it and have lost channels!

Karsini wrote: »

Unfortunately due to the nature of digital transmission it's not possible to display on-screen captions. Every transmitter receives the same multiplexed feed, for a caption to be displayed they'd have to demux the feed at the TX site, decode the MPEG-4 video, insert the caption, re-encode the video and remux the stream. Which isn't really doable.

marclt

Tim the Enchanter wrote: »

Remind us never to look for advice here again so! Point is why should we need to come here to find the answers. btw manuals arent always glossy and they dont inform of regional frequency changes.. Like the user name!!

All legitimate questions are welcomed... !

Peter Rhea

miochain wrote: »

I have a Samsung led tv. Tuned into saorview no problem a few weeks ago. Now my transmitter has changed to channel 52. When I auto tune or manual tune to ch 52 I get no channels. Any ideas?

So, a full scan of all channels finds nothing? And you were receiving Saorview from Clermont Carn on channel 53, until today?

Where are you located?

dave98

Tim the Enchanter wrote: »

Would it not be a good idea to give those people in areas affected by these changes prior warning, or does our licence fee not cover that!!

its been advertised for 2 weeks on rte platform

miochain

Peter Rhea wrote: »

So, a full scan of all channels finds nothing? And you were receiving Saorview from Clermont Carn on channel 53, until today?

Where are you located?

Yes. Blackrock. Louth . Wondering if my amp has gone down. Power light is on. Bit of a coincidence.

miochain

miochain wrote: »

Yes. Blackrock. Louth . Wondering if my amp has gone down. Power light is on. Bit of a coincidence.

Amp... could it be that it's being overloaded?

miochain

Karsini wrote: »

Amp... could it be that it's being overloaded?

Normally weak signal here. I'll have to get my hands on another one.

formerly scottish paddy

miochain wrote: »

Normally weak signal here. I'll have to get my hands on another one.

Remember ch 52 a lot more powerful! (see post by larchill immediately after your first post here tonight) I would try it without an amp first.

Tim the Enchanter

dave98 wrote: »

its been advertised for 2 weeks on rte platform

On what channels and at what times. Look the simple fact is the analogue/digital change over was made 3 weeks ago. People thought that was it, as was widely advertised. Could they have not said something then? Then again the eu were paying that advertising bill. Now regional changes, well sure, lets just leave people figure that out themselves.

The Cush

Tim the Enchanter wrote: »

On what channels and at what times.

I've seen the advert posted above regularly on RTÉ1, before and after news programmes and during ad breaks on other programming and I'm not even in the affected coverage area. Also heard regularly on RTÉ Radio.

First posted here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81502537#post81502537

MustangMick

miochain wrote: »

Yes. Blackrock. Louth . Wondering if my amp has gone down. Power light is on. Bit of a coincidence.

Just up the road from you in Blackrock, shouldn't need an amp for Clermont Carn, UK Freeview signals a lot stronger than previous analogue one.

Mick

looksee

dave98 wrote: »

its been advertised for 2 weeks on rte platform

I had seen loads of ads for Saorview, but had not seen one for channels going off or changing.

miochain

formerly scottish paddy wrote: »

Remember ch 52 a lot more powerful! (see post by larchill immediately after your first post here tonight) I would try it without an amp first.

I have. No signal.

miochain

MustangMick wrote: »

Just up the road from you in Blackrock, shouldn't need an amp for Clermont Carn, UK Freeview signals a lot stronger than previous analogue one.

Mick

Where I am there has never been a good signal. Same for.my immediate neighbours. Its strange I know being so close to the transmitter.

MustangMick

miochain wrote: »

Where I am there has never been a good signal. Same for.my immediate neighbours. Its strange I know being so close to the transmitter.

No worries, up near the "Violet", mobile signals poor too, same up in Ard Na Mara.

Good luck
Mick

Brian017

I have a triax combo box. When I select terrestrial retune it finds no channels whatsoever. Any help?

The Cush

Brian017 wrote: »

I have a triax combo box. When I select terrestrial retune it finds no channels whatsoever. Any help?

What transmitter do you use?
What type of aerial do you have?

Brian017

The Cush wrote: »

What transmitter do you use?
What type of aerial do you have?

I think it's the Mt Leinster one. Its the ST-HD 537 model which is connected to an UHF aerial on the roof. I can recieve all the UK channels fine it's just the Irish ones. When I go to information both the signal strength and quality bars are at 0%

The Cush

Brian017 wrote: »

I think it's the Mt Leinster one. Its the ST-HD 537 model which is connected to an UHF aerial on the roof. I can recieve all the UK channels fine it's just the Irish ones. When I go to information both the signal strength and quality bars are at 0%

Could it be the wrong group aerial?

Up to yesterday and since DTT started broadcasting from Mt Leinster back in late 2008/early 2009 a Group B aerial was required for Saorview (or wideband aerial if analogue was required also). A wideband or Group A will be required now for Saorview.

When was the aerial installed and was it used for the analogue channels?