Comments on: Digital Terrestrial Television

By: Niall

Niall — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:23:36 +0000

I suspect we will be charged for this ‘Free’ Service if a transmitter is being used!!

But,why bother everyone is using digital boxes and dishes etc!!

Just bought a LG with freeview unfortunately can’t use the freeview service here in this country, why oh why are we always the last to do things!!!!

By: FRLinux

FRLinux — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:20:43 +0000

You know what the best part is ? Hertzian signals are going to be phased out by European directive anyway in 2011. Most Countries have already made the switch including France which did it very successfully last year. They rolled out the service in 2005 and one year later, i’ve never seen so much publicity and interest from anyone to actually get TNT (this is how it’s called in France).

That being said, they did add 10 free channels to the list you can *only* get via TNT, and this was a very good thing.

Now with True HD coming out of your door (hopefully in your local reseller’s shop by december), trials of TNT-HD already begun in France (well in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, the 3 biggest cities). But that show they took the train at the right time.

We’ve been already quite late (and still are quite behind) concerning broadband in this country, and this is not nice to see that they’re getting behind on Digital TV too.

Steph

By: Mares

Mares — Sat, 27 May 2006 17:36:10 +0000

As a complete and total layperson in this regard it seems ludicrous to me that they aren’t just using Freeview, it’s easy, accessible and simple to explain/understand, surely exactly what they are looking for and RTE can still be the biggest tv provider.

By: conall

conall — Sat, 27 May 2006 15:18:51 +0000

3 cheers for bureaucracy

>/sarcasm<