Saorview Updates - 2023

Removing the +1 TV and the radio channels is a mistake, they cost buttons to run but it's all about making tangible, externally visible cuts when what really needs to change is how RTE operates behind the scenes.

I totally agree. They should be kept on the air

I will

Yeah, it'll save nothing significant, but it's RTE being seen to be doing "something" while pretending that when the new and improved, actually functioning RTE Player comes along Real Soon Now, nobody will be missing out on anything.

I'm trying to watch 'crime' at the moment, on the player.

It doesn't show you which episode is playing. I had to stop about 40 minutes in and resumed later, I had to go and locate it on the time dial, where I had stopped watching. I honestly thought it was a joke, to stop it off, had to endure 6 ads each time I tuned it back on.

What a load of crap. Must be designed and run by the same people that designed the RTB website and that do the paperwork there. an absolute disaster.

I'd assume they will move down as will GOLD. It will be interesting to see if any of the commercial stations will take a place on the platform.

Also "If" all the digital radio stations close, RTÉ still need to get permission from the Minister etc etc. It's kind of an "existential" decision to RTÉ.

Why would they? They've shown zero interest in it up to now and it's not a capacity issue.

What does briste mean?

Thanks. My Irish is remedial I'm afraid to say.

Euronews was audio only during the night last night on all channels. Just blank screens.

If may have been a Euronews fault though as the ticker and bit on the side was visible on the RTE news channel but the main part was blank.

I didn't see it myself, just noticed a spike on the graph.

Not too sure what you mean, but it was the overnight coverage on RTE 1, RTE 2, RTE 1+1 and RTE News I think. The news channel had the ticker with the headlines but the Euronews part was blank like the others.

Getting rid of sky this month as only use netflix and other sources for watching channels. However my elderly parents and in laws wont be able work those as technologically challenged so looking for a saorview solution for them when they are here minding kids etc.Have two smart tvs LG and philips bout 5 years old and wondering are these saorview ready and what would be my cheapest solution for connec ting one of these. there is a point for aerial connection but dont have any aerial. Sky will be leaving me their dish but guessing that wont be any use to me for getting saorview if i connected a saorview box to it.

You will get satellite channels from the dish, I am guessing both TVs also have a sat receiver installed. I suspect that they are all saorview ready.

You will need to get an aerial and reception depends on where you are in the country or where the TV is e.g.

I live in Athlone and would have to have a loft aerial or outdoor aerial to pick up Soarview (though I don't think this should be the case but I have tried indoor with no luck).

My aunt lives in Kildare close to Maynooth but out in the country, she only needed an indoor aerial to pick up Saorview.

At my parents home in North County Dublin the upstairs bedroom picks up Soarview no problem with an indoor aerial.

But I suspect outdoor or loft aerial would be a better option as you won't have many issues with them.

Find a cheap indoor aerial to test on the TVs IMO.

Yes , the retune get everything back

Or keep the dish, install an aerial and a combiner onto the satellite cable at the dish end and a splitter at the TV end. Then you have all the free to air channels from both the UK and Ireland.

And on 31 this time. The duplicate radios on Mux 1 have also been removed.

Will Sky take up the two remaining slots on 9 & 10 in future to allow Sky Arts & Sky Mix to join Saorview in the near future?

Interestingly, the four SD test cards on the 2RN-2 multiplex each appear to have their own video & audio streams, rather than have four services display the same single test card video & audio.

Looking at digitalbitrate.com, it seems these four services are taking up combined space of 3.5 to 4 Mbps that prior to this were null packets. Certainly enough for two more SD services to be broadcast on the multiplex, based on the transmission parameters of other SD services.

It'll never happen unless they're forced to. They won't pay for it, they don't even want to pay for what they have at the moment.