One for the Irish

[bettyswollocks]

Digital TV guy`s , the big switch over

I have an Sharp Aquos LCD TV with a Sony Freewview HDMI DVD rewriter with 120gb harddrive ,

i get RTE sound no picture through Digital ,

Question - will i get picture when the switchover is done or do i need a mpeg4/mheg5 Box ????

[Ross_K]

Standard definition UK freeview uses MPEG2 so it won't work with saorview.

A high definition UK freeview box should work though - they handle MPEG4 don't they?

[bettyswollocks]

Thats what i thought with my Sony Freeview Hdmi box

[jmkent]

Jumping on the band wagon a little....

What are the differences between the MPEG2, MPEG4 and MHEG5???

We've had Freeview in the South West for years, fully switched some 2yrs or more ago now I think, and our TVs are showing the Freeview signal as being 576i (which I know is to do with the horizontal rate) but it is also showing it as MHEG5 - what is this?

[bettyswollocks]

In laymans terms because i don`t know any other , its to do with decoding different signals ,
here we`ve had uk digital for a few years through freeview , but to pick up RTE (irish) you need mpeg4 or mheg5 , this is with your digital box or if you buy a new TV you can get one with this ,
we have another way to get all channels Digital and Sky for £10 a month but i can`t talk about that here

[risky1]

I bought a Lcd tv for the Kitchen before christmas and it has a saorview decoder built-in...I'm getting (In Digital) RTE1,RTE 2(Hd)TV3,TG4,RTE 1(+1)RTE news, E3,RTE Jnr and a load of RTE Radio Stations..

I'd say if you picked up a saorvew box/Mp4 box it should do the trick.

Some info on here...
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...php?p=74937650
Ron.

[bettyswollocks]

Thanks Ron , but this is the funny thing , everyone says buy a FreeviewHD box and it`ll pick up the signal , well i have one but RTE audio only is it a case of waiting to switchover to see ??
Although RTE is Digital at the minute is it not???

[risky1]

Originally Posted by bettyswollocks

Although RTE is Digital at the minute is it not???

RTE is both transmitted in digital and analogue atm...but from Sep this year the analogue signal will cease.

I'm not sure why your only getting sound but no picture...

We are using our old analogue aerial atm which picks up the digital channels.
Afaik once you have a good TV3 reception on analogue then it should pull in the digital channels...not sure what ye can pickup aerial wise..?

More info here... Digital Television - Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

[bettyswollocks]

yeah i get all RTE channels through analogue , i`ll keep messing around with this until i get it or Fluck it up

[risky1]

Originally Posted by bettyswollocks

yeah i get all RTE channels through analogue , i`ll keep messing around with this until i get it or Fluck it up

If you can get TV3 atm then you should have no problem picking up the
digitals...
Btw...Don't go falling off the roof trying to tune in your aerial...