Saor View,Irelands Freeview TV

[quiggers59]

Hi ABer's The Irish equivalent of Freeview is Saorview,which gives access to the 4 Irish channels.If a Saorview TV was connected to a Sky Dish in UK would it pick up the Irish channels.At present you can take a Sky viewing card and watch RTE in UK,but just thought this would be an option not to give money to Murdoch and is gang.

[Buenchico]

Sorry, it doesn't work like that!

Since Saorview is the equivalent of Freeview (and not Freesat) it's a terrestrial system. That means that it requires a conventional TV aerial (not a dish) to be pointed at a nearby land-based transmitter (not a satellite). The signals used by terrestrial TV services are on completely different frequencies to those used by satellite TV; the receiving equipment for one system is not compatible with the other.

Any satellite receiver attached to a dish pointing to '28 degrees east' (which is the collective location for a group of satellites) can receive all of these stations, free of charge:
http://en.wikipedia.o...channels_at_28%C2%B0E
That's because none of those broadcasters encrypt their signals. However you'll see that RTÉ isn't in the list; that's because the transmissions are encrypted and can only be decoded by a suitable box with a valid viewing card (requiring a subscription) inserted.

Chris