UHD on the way in Spain and up and running in France

…and yet we don't even have proper SD for many channels on Saorview. Embarrassing. I don't even know why they continue to advertise Saorview on TV. Make it less rubbish and you won't need to advertise!

Anyways, Saorview is looking like it's dead - it'll be leapfrogged by IPTV (free, pay, and illegal). Saorview over DVB-I is years away. To make anyway headway, it's needed now.

Will never happen. Saorview "exists" - it doesn't proactively attempt to improve. Usuual "not my job" mentality.

VM jave invested in their app. instead. It's a HD stream here (although not as good as pay TV streaming services).

2RN in my opinion has just forgotten about Saorview or are actively killing it off....
It feels like some transition year pupils are left to mind it. 2RN must just expect that most viewers are on SKY or Virgin.

a few examples...

The picture quality one RTE One & RTE2 has reduced over the last 12months. Especially noticeable on sport.

The channel list "channel" (EPG 30) is embarrassing. A 10 year old on a commodore 64 could create a better looking image than they created. Remove it or improve it or at least add a radio station to background.

The saorview channel (EPG 29) is now a static image the last few months. Just remove/hide the channel from EPG.

The audio description is setup incorrectly on challenge.

They played around with HBB teletext for a while before abandoning testing & then pulled the plug on even MHEG5 text.

The MHEG5 on the radio stations could be updated from current logo & show name. Add the current song title at the very least as you would see on any RDS enabled FM radio. It could even list last 10 songs etc. Follow BBC example & dim the colours to reduce power needed to display the image.

They could add red/blue button option to RTE One +1, RTE2 +1 & RTE NEWS as short cut to launch the live HD stream of current channel from RTE Player.

All of the above possible improvements are not major expensive projects. If or when they roll out DVB-I or possibly DVB-T2/HEVC, hard to see it being a massive improvement. It could be another Saorview+ & Saorview Connect. Great potential but just half arsed implementation and then abandoned.

2RN know most viewers are on other platforms, only 12% use saorview as their main source. only 37% of homes have it

Agree 100%. As an experiment, I have an indoor aerial connected to my bedroom TV and can pick up Saorview from Three Rock. The aerial was able to pick up the MUX which includes RTE1 TV about 50% of the time but since about a year ago, I can only pick up the stations on that MUX 10% of the time.

Nothing at my end has changed - the TV, the aerial and where all the gear is located are the same so I can only assume that they have reduced power on the transmitter. The second Three Rock MUX (which includes RTE2 TV) is there all the time.

The forum has occasional reports of one Mux going missing or being intermittent. While the other one is usually described as "perfect". But they rarely take the trouble to examine their signal readings. And their first assumption is that something has changed at the transmitter end. On a marginal signal, one frequency could be OK for the aerial, but the other one liable to fail.

A perfect picture could be coming from a 100% signal, or a 50% signal. But at 45% nothing. Saorview recommend using an external aerial, and that should solve the issue in most cases.

It might be an issue with the firestick, we have no issue with it on 3 brands of tv and a Now stick, it does have issues on occasion but no more than with Netflix, YouTube or others apps we use.