Freeview & Saorview Channel Scan - December 2010

Reception of UK DTT (Freeview) and Republic of Ireland DTT (Saorview) services with a Metronic T2 Zapbox set top box. This was a recording taken on the evening of Tuesday 14th December 2010. When the STB is tuned for the first time, the Saorview broadcasts are placed in the 800's because the setting of the software is to place UK channels in their LCN's. In this video, I've moved the Saorview television services into the 60's and the radio services starting from 730. TV services are mostly between 1 and 99, the early 100's house MHEG text channels, the later 100's another couple of late-night chat channels. 301 is the BBC Red Button video stream for Freeview (Freeview only has one video stream compared to around six on satellite). Starting from 700 are radio channels. There's no HD services for Freeview here at present, they will be available when the digital switch over takes place here at some point in 2012. There is one HD channel on Saorview, RTÉ Two, though currently their HD output is all upscaled (they plan to have some genuine HD material first with some live sport early next year, then when a new playout system is installed at RTÉ to handle HD) on channel 62 in this video - look for the HD symbol in the on screen graphics. There is also a temporary SD service of RTÉ Two here on Channel 65 (on Saorview approved equipment its LCN is 7) which will run until 18th April 2011 which is being provided for viewers with MPEG4 receivers that cannot handle HD. To be honest, the picture quality for this temporary channel is quite rough. Reception for Freeview broadcasts is from the Brougher Mountain transmitter (E30, E34, E23, E26, E29 & E33) while Saorview comes from Truskmore (E53).