Digital TV Dies
Our show for May 19th, 2010After two-year tender process has exhausted all of the potential operators, has Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) in Ireland died this week? We think not.
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May 20th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
In your pod cast of today you be-maoned the death-before-birth of Digital Terrestrial TV in this country (other than that which RTE is leaglly obliged to provide). You then mentioned that there’s DTT in Sweden. What you did not mention was that in Sweden, the service is heavily subsdised by the State in order to keep it running. Countries, bigger and richer than Ireland have pulled out of commercial DTT over the years - even the country we compare ourselves against most - the UK - has done so.
Yes, we must go digital. But let’s keep a bit of balance in the argument. Let’s not kill ourselves with shame. We are not alone!!
Best wishes
Seamus Bonner
Dublin
May 21st, 2010 at 9:40 am
Surely its time to look at setting-up a system which will cable channels into every home in the land. So, ask yourself what cable enters every home in the land…..ESB!! It also has fibre backhaul and already uses the system internally, whereby data is carried on the power lines.
Joe Cahill
Waterford
May 24th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
What’s the commercial arguement for DTT?
The major urban areas have cable so they don’t need it. People outside of that have the Sky option if they want premium content otherwise they can get free multi channel from a cheap free-to-air satellite kit and a small rooftop aerial (A Nordig 2.0 box is expensive too!). The people that are left over when you exclude the ones above won’t amount to many and they have, by their inaction, indicated that a lot of them are not that interested anyway.
I can understand the technical advantages but can’t see how anyone could make it pay.
May 24th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
This is exactly the point I made on my digital radio blog … what’s in it for the operator of commercial DTT?
Using combined free DTT from RTE for the main Irish channels and the cheap Freesat satellite option why would anyone in their right mind want to pay for DTT?
Perhaps the answer lies in the Freeview business model in the UK. Anyone know how that works?