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Saorview is Ireland's national DTT service. The Irish word saor means "free"; thus it is a partial calque of Freeview, the name of the DTT service of the United Kingdom. Saorview is available from 64 DTT transmitters covering 98% of the population as of the end of Q3 2012.
Saorsat (/ ˈ s ɛər s æ t / SAIR-sat; a portmanteau of the Irish word Saor, meaning “free”, and a shortening of the word “satellite”, therefore making it a partial calque of the United Kingdom's Freesat) is a free-to-air satellite service in Ireland.
By 2012, SAORVIEW offered 98% coverage for all channels. This was a significant improvement in free-to-air television coverage. [21] Similar services such as Saorview available in the United Kingdom (i.e. Freeview) and other parts of Europe are not compatible with Ireland's DTT service. [22]
All HD channels in Ireland broadcast at 1080i. There are currently two channels available to Saorsat viewers, three channels available to Saorview viewers, one-hundred-and-eleven channels available to Sky Ireland viewers and sixty-six channels available to Virgin Media Ireland viewers on their respective EPGs.
Ireland currently uses the DVB-T standard with MPEG-4 compression. MHEG-5 is also used for epg and interactive services. The Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007 assigned one multiplex to RTÉ to ensure the continued availability of the four former free-to-air services in Ireland – that is, RTÉ 1, RTÉ 2, TG4 and TV3. RTÉ then established and ...
Sky News Ireland - this was an Irish version of Sky News, carried to Ireland on Sky Digital, and by most cable companies. It ceased broadcasting in November 2006 due to low audience figures. It ceased broadcasting in November 2006 due to low audience figures.
Virgin Media Ireland confirmed it would launch a new channel in August 2022, at a Virgin Media Showcase event. The channel is currently available on Saorview , Virgin Media and Sky . The channel made it to Virgin Media Play on the 2nd of September, 2024, following the rebrand.
This was done to make it straightforward for citizens on both sides of the border, [87] referring citizens to both Saorview's website [88] and the Department's Digital Switchover Website. [89] On 24 October 2012, all analogue television transmission in Ireland ended, leaving Saorview as the primary source of broadcast television in Ireland.