Digital television in Ireland
- Digital television in Ireland
In the Republic of Ireland, digital television is operated by a number of services including Sky Ireland which is operated by the BSkyB additional satellite and cable services include (available nationwide), UPC's digital-cable service, SCTV, Smart Vision and Magnet Networks. A free-to-air digital terrestrial and satellite service that will be operated by Boxer TV will launch in Autumn 2009.
Terrestrial
Cable
Digital cable (DVB-C) is provided by three of the firms involved in cable in Ireland. It is deployed on the entirety of the Casey Cablevision network, is available to the majority of the UPC cable network (formerly NTL Ireland and Chorus) The uptake rate of digital in enabled areas increasing rapidly, and many homes continue to use analogue cable to feed second televisions, video recorders, and as a back-up service in case of failure of Digital STBs. The remaining, mainly small, cable firms do not provide any digital
Mobile
O2 Ireland and 3 Ireland have commenced trials of DVB-H.Vodafone Ireland and 3 Ireland already have significant digital video content distributed over their 3G and 3.5G (HSDPA) networks
MMDS
SCTV Digital provides an advanced digital television service to Cork City and parts of County Cork. It is licenced to operate all over Munster and will be doing so within the next year. Operating at 11.7 GHz to 12.5 GHz, it delivers approximately 75 digital television channels and video on demand services from "Sky By Wire".Fact|date=May 2007UPC Digital provides a cable-like service over an all digital MMDS network reaching over 80% of the country. This network operates at 2.5 GHz.
atellite
Digital satellite is the only form of subscriber satellite transmission available in the country and is provided by Sky Digital (and Sky+ HD). The British Freesat service is also available in the country, as are FTA satellite channels from several other European countries.Additional info link : www.satellite-ireland.com
IPTV
Two companies provide digital television via IPTV; Magnet Entertainment and Smart Vision (from Smart Telecom).
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