Saorview retune before 4th March 2020

Digifriendly

The Cush wrote: »

It only covers the existing broadcasting band and from March 4th will be further reduced, UHF21 - UHF 48.

IIRC the original UHF band from the early 1960's Stockholm Agreement was up to UHF82.

Does existing UHF band not still include C60 as Com 8 from Divis is on it at present?
Also from March 4 Com 7 and Com 8 from Divis will both be in the 50's.

The Cush

Digifriendly wrote: »

Does existing UHF band not still include C60 as Com 8 from Divis is on it at present?
Also from March 4 Com 7 and Com 8 from Divis will both be in the 50's.

South of the border UHF60 wasn't allocated to any of the existing sites but could be used in a 6 mux service which of course never happened, it effectively became a guard band between broadcasting and 4G services. Different for the UK because of the greater requirement for broadcasting.

Interim Com 7 and 8 mux will be gone within the next 2 years.

Digifriendly

The Cush wrote: »

South of the border UHF60 wasn't allocated to any of the existing sites but could be used in a 6 mux service which of course never happened, it effectively became a guard band between broadcasting and 4G services. Different for the UK because of the greater requirement for broadcasting.

Interim Com 7 and 8 mux will be gone within the next 2 years.

Sorry as I thought UK and ROI were totally in synch re DTT broadcasting frequency band.
I think removal of Com 7/8 are very likely but not totally certain. There is still some debate that I have seen re their future on Digital Spy.

sliabh 1956

I have re-tuned my windows media centre a few times but I still keep getting the same message about Viewer Advisory I am in the Mahera transmitter region any advice would be grateful. I am beginning to miss programmes i have set to record as the progamme due to record is gone from the menu

Elvis Hammond

copper04 wrote: »

I have retuned both in normal and full range but still getting advisory message. The new ch's are suppose to be 46 and 48 but after retune they are showing no transmisson on my TV.
I saw a suggestion to do a retune with the aerial disconnected to delete existing ch's. Did that but still same advisory message on all ch's except TNG...

By 'normal and full', do you mean you tried manual scan of a single frequency, as well as an auto scan of the full TV band?

Channel 48 was already in use at Maghera. ('TNG' is on it.) Can't see why you wouldn't get ch. 46.

The Cush

Digifriendly wrote: »

Sorry as I thought UK and ROI were totally in synch re DTT broadcasting frequency band.
I think removal of Com 7/8 are very likely but not totally certain. There is still some debate that I have seen re their future on Digital Spy.

The UK and Ireland are in sync as regards the regular broadcasting band 21-48 but the UK has decided to temporarily place the interim muxes in the 700MHz (5G) duplex gap. This piece of spectrum will eventually be auctioned for SDL most likely. While used for broadcasting the interim muxes cannot interfere with the primary licenced mobile services adjacent.

The Cush

sliabh 1956 wrote: »

I have re-tuned my windows media centre a few times but I still keep getting the same message about Viewer Advisory I am in the Mahera transmitter region any advice would be grateful. I am beginning to miss programmes i have set to record as the progamme due to record is gone from the menu

This as far as I can see is an issue with non-Saorview certified receivers as they don't reject the duplicate services carried on the old frequency and are causing issues. These issues should disappear on March 4th next when the old frequencies are switched off.

Sneachta

The Cush wrote: »

A lot of these cheap receivers have a similar tuning menu structure, is it in anyway like this 4IFE SV-400 or this Blazer HD 705

Thanks for your help. I can get to the Terrestrial Scan but it doesn't give an opton for Ireland. Choosing the UK finds no channels. Choosing Poland does a scan but when it finishes the channels still aren't showing the epg for Irish channels.

Sneachta

The Cush wrote: »

This as far as I can see is an issue with non-Saorview certified receivers as they don't reject the duplicate services carried on the old frequency and are causing issues. These issues should disappear on March 4th next when the old frequencies are switched off.

Does this apply to combo boxes also?

The Cush

Sneachta wrote: »

I can get to the Terrestrial Scan but it doesn't give an opton for Ireland. Choosing the UK finds no channels. Choosing Poland does a scan but when it finishes the channels still aren't showing the epg for Irish channels.

I'm surprised there isn't an Ireland option or similar considering that box is on sale thru https://www.satworld.ie/blazer-hd400.html