IPTV, Saorview, Satellite Instalation
Price for services
| New Dish Installation | 130 € |
| LNB Replacement | 70 € |
| Dish Adjustment | 50 € |
| Any Roof Jobs | + 150 € |
| Saorview Installation | 100 € |
| Satellite Box | from 75 € |
| Saorview Box | from 75 € |
| Combo Box | from 120€ |
| Not specified jobs | 25 € per hour + price of parts |
| IPTV BOX | Depends from Supplier From 70€ |
| IPTV | from 15€ per month (depends from supplier (NOW TV, Eircom, Vodafone, etc...)) |
Saorview
What is Saorview?
Saorview is Ireland's new Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) service. It’s a new Digital TV signal that will replace the old analogue TV service that you received through a TV Aerial (roof top or bunny's ears). In Ireland, this will be known as Saorview. It will still be received through a TV Aerial (UHF type) but the pictures will be much clearer and eventally all channels will be broadcast in HD.
What equipment do I need to get Saorview?
Saorview will be available to 97% of Irish households from May 2011 if you want it. It is already live in the majority of locations in Ireland already. If you want Saorview you need to either buy a special SaorviewTV to get it, or buy a Saorview set-top box to use with your existing TV, plus an aerial (you existing TV Aerial might suffice but may need to be re aligned). There are other generic Digital Terrestrial TV boxes that will suffice for the job also. These are usually cheaper than the official Saorview receivers but they lack Mheg5 which means no Digital Teletext on HD Channels. But if this is not a big consideration of yours they can be a great low cost solution and some even come with PVR facilities and Media Players to play your films and music.
What channels will be available?
All Irish content so far, and all familiar names. At a minimum there will be RTE 1, RTE 2 (with HD), TV3, 3e, TG4, RTE 1 Plus (RTE 1 with one hour’s delay), a kids’ TV channel called RTE Junior and a rolling news channel called RTE News Now. Also all the RTE radio channels (ten of them, including the digital ones) and a fancier digital version of Aertel. More content may be added in time, including pay TV options for subscription channels. Only time will tell here.
Satellite Instalation (FTA, freesat and others)
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A Little bit of Theory
Free to Air (FTA)
- This is a Satellite Digital receiver and is used with a satellite dish
- It is Free to Air meaning it is used to pick up free satellite channels
- but can come with a card slot to allow it to be used for subscription services
- It is capable of working with any satellite (so long as the dish is large enough)
- Manufactured by a range of up to about 120 different companies
- Boxes can come in the following formats
- Standard definition receivers: No hard drive
- High Definition Receivers: Option to add on external hard drive
- HD+ Receiver: Twin feeds to allow you to record one channel & look at another
- HD Satellite & Combo receiver: a satellite feed & a Digital terrestrial feed
- Good Points ?
- It is non subscription
- It is very versatile in terms of channel line up and satellite
- huge range of different boxes
- generally cheaper than freesat
- Drawback
- Unlike freesat it does not automatically updates if their is a frequency change
- or a new channels becomes available
- getting spare remotes etc can be a problem
- Main channels include (on astra 2, but totally flexible):
- BBC 1,2,3,4,
- UTV, ITV 2,3,4,
- Channel 4, E4, More 4,
- 6 News Channels, 7 Childrens, 8 Movie channels.
FREESAT
Main points
- This is a Satellite Digital receiver
- Works a Satellite dish
- It meets the Freesat standards set out by ITV/BBC to work
- It will work anywhere in Ireland from a 60cm satellite dish
- It comes in range of types (and about 5 manufactures):
- Freesat SD: SD with no hard drive
- Freesat HD: HD with no hard drive
- Freesat+: twin feed, with hard drive, series link etc
- What makes Freesat special ?
- It is non subscription
- It has a standard channel line up (programme with a UK Post code)
- it automatically updates if their is a frequency change
- or a new channels becomes available
- easy to get spare remotes etc (there is 10 million freesat boxes out there)
- Drawbacks
- It is generally more expensive that free to air boxes
- It is not as flexible - i.e. you can't decide the order of the channels in freesat mode
- Only works off the Astra 2 (28 degrees E) satellite.
- Main channels include:
- BBC 1,2,3,4,
- UTV, ITV 2,3,4,
- Channel 4, E4, More 4,
- 6 News Channels, 7 Childrens, 8 Movie channels.