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Receiving RTE in the UK
« Thread Started on Nov 15, 2005, 9:48pm »
I live in England and receive Sky Digital (lapsed subscription). I have set the correct parameters for RTE and now have a blue screen (scrambled reception) for RTE1, RTE2, TV3 and TnaG. I am told I will not be able to decode these channels without an Irish Sky Card. I asked a satellite dealer in Ireland about this and he says I cannot obtain an Irish Sky Card without first taking out a full subscription to a Sky family package, as there is no equivalent to free-to-air in the Republic. Is this correct? Is there any other way I can either obtain an Irish Sky Card or decode the RTE channels in the UK?
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Re: Receiving RTE in the UK
« Reply #1 on Nov 17, 2005, 3:01pm »
The dealer you spoke to in Ireland should have said that there was no equivalent to Freesat in the Republic - Freeview is terrestrial. The only way you can get RTE and the other Irish terrestrials is to obtain an Irish Sky card via an address in the Republic, or a UK card for Northern Ireland (which will not give you TV3) via an address in the North.
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Re: Receiving RTE in the UK
« Reply #2 on Nov 19, 2005, 12:52pm »
Picking up on Ken's point - this sounds a little bizarre - but if I de-activated my UK card, took it to the Republic and left it overnight in someone's Sky box to re-activate it, then brought it back to UK - would it decode the RTE channels ???? !!!!
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Re: Receiving RTE in the UK
« Reply #3 on Nov 20, 2005, 11:20pm »
No, afraid not!!!

The card has its ID embedded and this is addressed rather than the country in which the receiver resides. Anyway how would the receiver "know" where it was?

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Re: Receiving RTE in the UK
« Reply #4 on Nov 20, 2005, 11:34pm »
Thanks Ken.............looks as if cheapest method is to obtain a Sky Card from Northern Ireland
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Re: Receiving RTE in the UK
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I live in England and receive Sky Digital (lapsed subscription). I have set the correct parameters for RTE and now have a blue screen (scrambled reception) for RTE1, RTE2, TV3 and TnaG. I am told I will not be able to decode these channels without an Irish Sky Card. I asked a satellite dealer in Ireland about this and he says I cannot obtain an Irish Sky Card without first taking out a full subscription to a Sky family package, as there is no equivalent to free-to-air in the Republic. Is this correct? Is there any other way I can either obtain an Irish Sky Card or decode the RTE channels in the UK?

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Re: Receiving RTE in the UK
« Reply #6 on May 7, 2008, 8:32pm »
Hi.
I have the exact same problem in reverse. In Ireland we do not/cannot get a "freeview" card. (ch4,5 etc) even though the ariel on my house will pick up ch4 perfectly. However, I have bought a freeview card on e-bay which delivers ch4 and all the ch5's (although today ch4 has gone FTA). My sky subscription gives me all the UK channels plus RTE1,2 TV3 and TG4. however they are strictly by subscription to a sky package and limited to Ireland. You would need to get somebody to subscribe to the basic sky package in ireland (exactly the same as the Uk package) then take both card and box to the UK (after a while due to phone connections). It will work perfectly for you then. Another option would be for somebody in Ireland to get a multiroom package and then take the extra box to the UK.
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Re: Receiving RTE in the UK
« Reply #7 on May 8, 2008, 2:29pm »
Multiroom will not work in two locations, both receivers have to be connected to same phone line. This is checked by Sky, if after a couple of months both boxes do not call back from same number, they charge for two subs.
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