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Hi there,
I have a freeview box in Northern Ireland. When I scan my box I pick up holders for the RTE services on Channel 1, 2, 3, etc - with sound but no pictures.
But I want the UK freeview to be stored 1, 2, 3 after the re-scan.
How can I achieve this to ignore the RTE channels?!
Thanks!
I have a freeview box in Northern Ireland. When I scan my box I pick up holders for the RTE services on Channel 1, 2, 3, etc - with sound but no pictures.
But I want the UK freeview to be stored 1, 2, 3 after the re-scan.
How can I achieve this to ignore the RTE channels?!
Thanks!
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Where do you live - e.g. postcode of nearest public building. NI has only very low powered digital signals until late 2012.
Lars
If you can't get Freeview according to that postcode checker, and the Freeview channels don't appear in the 800s, then you'll basically have to live without Freeview until NI's DSO in late 2012 I believe.
If it turns out you are supposed to be able to get it but can't, perhaps your aerial is pointing more towards Ireland than towards the transmitter in NI?
If you do want to be able to receive the picture for the RTÉ channels, you'll need a receiver designed for receiving HD channels (doesn't need to be Freeview HD, ie DVB-T2, but it needs to be able to decode MPEG4).
I can't find the manual details... any idea how I can get it? I'm recieving Freeview from the Limavady transmitter.
But I went and found the values you need for you:
Mux 1 (some BBC channels): 67
Mux 2 (Some ITV/C4/C5 channels): 58
Mux A (Misc commercial things, including more ITV and Channel 5 channels): 53
Mux B (More BBC channels, as well as encrypted Sky Sports channels): 57
Mux C (Misc commercial things, including some Sky and UKTV channels): 60
Mux D (Misc commercial things, including more UKTV channels and one or two ITV and C4 channels): 63
So, to recap - try a complete factory reset on the TV, then tune each one of these in turn, until you (hopefully!) have all the channels.
If it still doesn't work, try bringing your HD-FOX around and plugging it into their aerial, to see if the fault is the aerial or the TV. If you can't get a decent signal on your HD-FOX in their house, I would check their aerial; ensure it's pointing in the right way, and check cabling, etc., especially if they have a poor analogue signal.
First of all, the box is MPeg 2 only which is why you're only receiving sound and no picture from the Saorview channels (RTE 1 RTE 2 etc.). To view these you need a box that will receive MPeg 4 transmissions, which these days means a Freeview HD box.
Secondly, in the menu settings you should be able to change the country setting. It must be set to "Ireland" and not the "UK" which is why you're getting some Freeview channels in the 800's.
Where did you buy the box ? If it was bought in the ROI then a factory reset might not work.
There are no FVHD boxes that allow this and you need an HD box to receive all of the Saorview channels as they use MPEG4 encoding. Single mux manual tuning will enable what is needed, ie getting the UK channels in their correct locations. Most FVHD boxes (but not the Harvard clones) allow deletion of a channel.
In NI all new boxes/IDTV's should be FreeviewHD approved (DVB-T2) as
The Picnic concept was and is a mistake !
Lars
Picnic equipment was never allowed in th UK by Ofcom - Indeed picnic was explicitly disallowed,
Yes NI is part of the UK - what else should it be?
It is part of the 'Good Friday agreement' that culture should freely cross the border. The two governments have signed the MOU and later agreed on the mini-mux in NI to provide coverage for RTE/TG4 where ROI spill-over cannot be received.
The Freeview HD standard covers both the UK signals and the ROI signals and the RTE/TG4 mini-mux. FreeviewHD is the only standard it makes any sence to buy in all of the UK and even more so in NI.
Lars
Won't it be better to buy a Saorview box for the Irish channels and a Freeview or Freeview HD box for the English channels in NI, because the two systems are not compatible,
with a Freeview HD box you cannot access the Text and Interactive Services from the Republic of Ireland because they do not use the MHEG5 standard
and the UK do not use the Republic of Ireland Interactive system, I would suggest that the two boxes are needed to get both the Irish channels and the English channels,
unless you just want the NI Mini Mux that carries the Irish channels, but not the full Saorview range of channels and services
No, Saorview does not use MHEG5 they use something else
Yes it does use MHEG-5. Currently used for RTÉ Aertel Digital (DTT teletext) and on screen captions for the RTÉjr and RTÉ1 +1 channels when they are off-air.
Thanks for that