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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.
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.
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]
Analogue television transmissions from this site ended on 24 October 2012, and the national DTT service, Saorview, is now broadcast from Mullaghanish at an ERP of 200 kW, making this the most powerful television transmitter in all of Ireland, a distinction formerly attributed to the Cairn Hill (analogue) transmitter in County Longford.
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.
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 ...
An official licence was granted for the satellite service in 1997 at which time digital broadcasts began making this the first digital television channel in Ireland beating RTÉ by years. During the UHF years while the station was not airing its own content they would broadcast a relay of UK Channel 5 .
A national standard set-top box specification has been set which incorporates a common operating system created by Inview. All boxes will require this specification to view the channels and access value-added services such as interactive news, programme recording, internet applications, and video on demand.