FTA Éire Card / ITV-Ch4

nokia6150

Just heard from a good friend at Sky, that a FTA Card is supposed to be available for Éire Customers.

Also that a deal to bring ITV & CH4 is just about to be sealed for November?????

This means (from the Sky person) that RTÉ 1, Net 2, TV3 & TG4, with the addition of BBC 1 & 2; and ITV & CH4 will be available to Éire Customers on the FTA Éire.

The numbers for cards and ITV are available from the website below.....

[snip]Pull the other one. Cloud.[/snip]

Mountjoy Mugger

Oi!

Read the rules. No pimping!

Ballydung

This means (from the Sky person) that RTÉ 1, Net 2, TV3 & TG4, with the addition of BBC 1 & 2; and ITV & CH4 will be available to Éire Customers on the FTA Éire.

Can anybody confirm this ??
If true does this mean that I could order one get it delivered to Irish address and get it sent over to England put in box and be able to watch RTE N2 etc ???
Does this coincide with Republic getting CH4 UTV so then N.Ireland get RTE etc

Mark_irl

bbc , utv and ch4 free to air in Ireland, how stupid do you think we are ?

sceptre

Originally posted by Mark_irl
bbc , utv and ch4 free to air in Ireland, how stupid do you think we are ?

Could be the Good Friday agreement kicking into effect (there is provision for all people on both sides of the border to get all TV services available on either side)

Tarabuses

I sent an e-mail to sky4ireland and received the following response:

<sky4ireland@yahoo.com>:
64.157.4.82 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (sky4ireland@yahoo.com) - mta422.mail.yahoo.com

Could the FTA message be a similar fantasy?

Lennoxschips

Sounds too good to be true...

You could see why Sky would want to do it though. If you could get the Irish and the British channels for free, then loads of people would go out and buy Sky boxes and dump their cable/mmds subscriptions. I'm sure Sky wouldn't mind if that would happen.

pbirney

Has anyone tried calling the phone no. quoted on the webpage? (208 3424)

/Paul.

carrolls

The situation is:

1: No FTV Irish card will ever be released.
2: UTV (Cut down version) and Channel 4 (Full version) will be available on the Family Pack or higher sometime between the third Monday in August and very early November.
3: Interactive on Channel 4 won't be available till June.

Aquos76

I called the number which was on the website and i got a message played back to me saying Dublin 012083424. Then it said something about the line is now closed if you want to call 1850 715 900 during the programme. This sounds like a RTE radio phone number

What is this guy trying to prove, Firstly an email address that does not exist and then this phone number.

To my knowledge there are only 18 FTV Irish card in this country and all bar one of these belong to RTE,the other one TV3 have. Also, correct me if I am wrong but does some of our monthly sub go to the BBC for allowing us to recieve BBC1/2.
So if this is the case why all of a sudden would we be able to recieve these two channels free of charge because I for one also pay NTL for carriage of these channels. So I tend to agree with Carrolls on this one that there will never be a FTV Irish card.

One thing is also for sure is that when we do recieve UTV/CH4 we will be facing another price increase next September.

DMC

Looks like utter rubbish, and it is.

Locked.