TV3 to go on SkyDigital

TinMan

I mailed info@TV3.ie last week asking whether they plan to go on to SkyDigital and here is the response I got.

Hi,
We are in negotiations with Sky at present, however, a date for launch has
not yet been confirmed.
Best regards,
TV3

Uncle Grueber

Yep, it's old news, but it's true. Sooner rather than later.

dmeehan

Uncle G, any predictions about this one.
Your last one was spot on

Uncle Grueber

I'm guessing it'll be at the same time as RTÉ. It's RTÉ who were holding up TV3.

dmeehan

how come?

Uncle Grueber

Can't say.

dmeehan

ah go on
ya will ya will ya will ya will ya will

Uncle Grueber

It's to do with using RTÉ's facilities.

dmeehan

what, like transmission facilities (as opposed to canteen facilities, sorry i couldnt resist)

Uncle Grueber

Yep, the first one. Although the latter would be beneficial too.

byte

Well I figured TV3 would want to use RTÉ facilities since their terrestrial coverage is by RTÉ. I doubt if TV3 have finances for their own satellite dish. Do they have any room for one even:rolleyes:

Uncle Grueber

And its expensive enough to upgrade to MPEG encoding hardware as it is...

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by TinMan
Hi,
We are in negotiations with Sky at present, however, a date for launch has
not yet been confirmed.
Best regards,
TV3

i got the exact same email from them a while back

dmeehan

i thought that tv3 already broadcast in digital, they just re-analogise (is that a word?) the digital stream for the terrestial analog broadcasting?

can anyone confirm?

suppafly

So you reckon TV3 will be on Sky digital in april when Rte comes on? Also does anyone know any of the codes to get other channels? I had HTV there on sky digital for a while cuz I got the code of off a friend but now its gone again?

DMC

The studios were built with digital in mind, as was TG4.

They are fully equiped, but it would be more cost effective to do as they do with the transmitter network; get RTÉ to do it for them.

carrolls

All UK terrestial channels have been removed from the "Other channels" option.
See the post
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37102

I think it was possibly Marconi, that told me on this forum quite a while back, that tv are linked digitally by cable with montrose and that tv3's signal is sent from there in digital to the network.
This was in answer to a question I asked a while back in Dig terr.
Sometimes when watcfhing RTE and quite a few times with TV3 from Mount Leinster,the picture has broken up into pixels or frozen,like a Sky dig picture if the dish was too small/badly aligned and in heavy Rain.
This was the "give-away" sign that it originated digitally.
mm

Forgot to say, i guess if thats the case, then TV3 can go on Sky at the same time as RTE,assuming BCI clearance and agreement with Sky etc.
mm

carrolls

TV3 and RTE transfer their signals digitally through leased microwave links situated in all the major Irish cities (And of course.the Broadcasting houses themselves).
The signals are then digitally uplinked to the transmitters on the mountains, converted to analogue, modulated, and then broadcast.
This has been the case since 1983.

dmeehan

1983, jaysus, and they still havent sorted out dtt yet
tsk tsk

carrolls

Sending digital pictures and sound over a microwave link is not exactly rocket science.
It is when compression, encryption and multiplexing(Sky Digital) are used that things get complicated.