I wonder is now a good time to buy a DVD recorder or Hard Disk DVD Recorder, with this on the horizon...
Not to mention HDTV.
I wonder will RTE use the same digital terrestrial broadcast system as Freeview in the UK? This would make commercial sense as people could then buy IDTVs and HDD/DVDs with built in Freeview tuners as are becoming very popular in England.
It would be CRAZY to have a different system for a small backwater country - it would perpetuate the higher-cost market in the same way that the use of UHF+VHF frequencies requiring dual tuners makes TVs and DVD recorders more expensive in Ireland.