Setting up freeview and freesat in Ireland

here is a good vid of a guy setting up a como receiver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXpWbWY9ncg

 

looks good, but there is no ethernet connection that I can see on it

 

No Mickah, none, is that Important ?
What would be the advantage of LAN.

 

if you wanted to connect to a router and Card Share, there is a tonne of posts on sharing, but not allowed to directly discuss it, you will find them using the search function

 

DTT is Terresterial and has nothing to do with cable. Essentially uses antenna as demonstrated in the hilarious video posted ("And thats the end of it")

This box conforms to the Irish DTT specifications that were outlined about a year ago after the trials and is capable of all of the fancy interactive stuff planned for Irish DTT. Best to install DTT channels first (Which will include the likes of RTE News as well as the "Test Spaces" (If broadcasting) reserved for other channels like RTE 3) then connect satellite to get the others - that way you'll have all the decent Irish and English channels before the plethora of rubbish ones.

On a similar note, If you have this box (or a box like it), you do NOT need an Mpeg-4 specific TV. The Mpeg-4 TV's are basically like UK TV's with built in freeview. It just eliminates the need for a digibox and gets the basics directly into the TV but, if you'd be after stuff like the Sports & movies or just the extra channels that aren't on Freesat like Dave, Comedy central, Discovery and the like, you're probably better off just getting a box and at the moment, the MVision is currently king. (And no, I dont work for them).

Bear in mind too that Irish DTT will only have the basics free - They will be doing a package similar to the basic NTL Digital for €9.99 with Sports & movies to be add on packages (That was the plan last year anyway - haven't checked recently as the company that were going with it pulled out last year). I'm sure DTT will get going someday - they still have two years before the EU deadline :S

Ultimately, with this box, you will have all the Irish channels on DTT and all the non premium English one's like BBCs, ITVs, C4, C5, More 4, E4, Film 4 etc... As for Interactive stuff on Freesat, as I said earlier, many of these can be tuned in as seperate channels anyway (I have mine labled BBC Sport 1, BBC Sport 2 etc...)

As for LAN input, no joy there i'm afraid. Recommend the Dreambox DM800 PVR if you are thinking what I think you're thinking

 

Mickah, NightsJOD, Great stuff I am educated really appreciate your time on this. I'm ordering the Mvision from a store in Kildare Got a really great price 180 delivered (PM me for voucher code anyone buying).

Prob just stick with the ACER TV we have until I spot a ridiculous bargain thanks to the combo doing all the tuning.

And I will not be looking for any Illegal content so this box will serve me well.

Thanks all who contributed.
Mark

 

Glad to hear you got sorted.

Just another bit of info.
DTT Channels(At the moment):
RTE 1
RTE 2
TV3
TG4
RTE News Channel
RTE Radio 1
RTE 2FM
RTE Lyric FM
RTE Radio Na Gaeltachta

Freesat(FTA) Channels:

For a full list please see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_channels_on_Freesat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free-to-air_channels_in_the_UK

Hopefully this list is correct.
Entertainment

101 BBC One
102 BBC Two
103 ITV1

ITV HD :available via the 'red button' on your remote)

104 Channel 4
105 Five
106 BBC Three
107 BBC Four
108 BBC HD - High Definition
110 BBC ALBA Scotland - Gaelic
113 ITV2
114 ITV2 +1
115 ITV3
116 ITV3 +1
117 ITV4
118 ITV4 +1
120 S4C Digidol (Wales)
121 Channel 4 + 1
122 E4
123 E4 +1
124 More4
125 More4 +1
135 Zone Romantica
136 Zone Reality
137 Zone Thriller
138 Zone Horror
139 Zone Horror + 1
140 BET Black Entertainment TV
141 BET + 1

News

200 BBC News
201 BBC Parliament
202 S4C2 (Wales)
203 Al Jazeera English
204 Euronews
205 France 24
206 Russia Today
207 CNN
208 Bloomberg Television
209 NHK World TV

Movies

300 Film4
301 Film4 +1
302 True Movies
303 True Movies 2
304 Movies4Men
306 Movies4Men2
308 Simply Movies

Lifestyle

402 Wedding TV
406 Information TV
411 Overseas Property
450 Men and Motors
451 Audi Channel Motoring

Music

500 Chart Show TV
501 The Vault
502 Scuzz

504 B4U Music
509 Zee Music
513 9XM
514 Clubland TV

Kids

600 CBBC
601 CBeebies
602 CITV
603 POP
604 POPGirl
605 Tiny POP
606 Kix!

Specialist / Education
650 Teachers TV
662 9X
690 Inspiration TV
691 Daystar TV

Shopping

800 QVC
801 price-drop tv
802 bid tv
803 Pitch TV
804 Pitch World
805 Gems TV
806 TV Shop
807 Shop on TV
809 JML
810 JML Cookshop
811 Thane
813 Best Direct
816 Ideal World

851 Netplay TV Gaming channel
852 Smart Live TV Gaming channel
861 Gala TV Gaming channel

950 - 971 - Other BBC Regions

 

I've read through this thread but I'm a bit confused still.
I'm in Waterford and have NTL Digital. I'd like to be able to access the BBC red button, theres some great stuff available with the F1 season coming up.

So is there a box I can buy that'll let me access the interactive stuff through NTL Digital ?

 

you can get the interactive channels as free channels on satelite. they are called stream1, stream2 upto stream6 i think. all you need is a cheapo fta receiver and sat dish