New RTE TV Aerial - 250 price?

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Birroc

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Hi,
Built a new house. Got a price of 250 for the following;

supply and fit aerial to provides RTE, TV3, TG4.

is that a bit expensive?

what are my other options (dont want NTL/Sky) - I hear these free-to-air satellites are good ?
 
Where are you located ? Is it a remote area requiring a tall aerial ? Otherwise 250 is crazy money just for the Irish stations.

I have a small aerial on my spare TV and get RTE/TV3/TG4. It cost a tenner.

You can even get a decent aerial in Argos. Certainly spend no more than 50. Get one with a small booster built in. Eventually RTE will not be broadacsting on the analog system, so those aerials will not work unless you have a digital receiver with your TV.
RTE are supposed to launch digital terrestial TV service in the nxt couple of years, but with cutbacks thats probably delayed.

Free-to-air Sat receivers/aerials are fine but you will not get Irish channels now.
 
I got a quote for €250 when I moved into my new house so I just went with Sky
 
Got an aerial put in the attic and a free to air dish and box supplied and fitted for €220 last year. The aerial supplies all the rooms in our house.
 
Birroc said:
Hi,
Built a new house. Got a price of 250 for the following;

supply and fit aerial to provides RTE, TV3, TG4.

is that a bit expensive?

what are my other options (dont want NTL/Sky) - I hear these free-to-air satellites are good ?
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Crazy prices...

There are sat systems on www.Satellite.ie
 
Birroc said:
We watch very little TV (none for the past 2 months) and we dont plan to watch anymore than the Irish 4.
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We need to know what part of the country you are in, to know if a rabbits ears etc will work. I use a beam in the attic pointed at the 3 Rock for local TV and a Sky Dish and expired UK card for 'all' the free 'mainland' channels. Paid for its self several times over at this stage.
 

Galway (west of Corrib). Our area is very bad for TV signals. Definitely need a booster.
 
UHF/VHF reception will be gone by 2012 so freesat probably the best way to go
 
You can get a nice small digital aerial, smaller than a receiver box that will get you the irish channels. The only thing is that it needs to be plugged into a socket.

It costs around 40 euro from Maplin.

I find those big aerials pretty ugly !

They look like something from below - if you were to buy one just make sure that it does support the irish stations
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spfeno said:
UHF/VHF reception will be gone by 2012 so freesat probably the best way to go
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The analogue transmission will at some point cease to exist but will be replaced by the new DTT service. In fact most of the transmitters in Ireland have either been upgraded in the last few months or in the process of being upgraded in advance of official launch later in the year.

This digital service is transmitted on UHF so your UHF aerial will not go to waste. I would however recommend that you go with a good quality aerial, not one of those cheap as chips contract aerials.

I also think it would be folly if you don't take the opportunity to throw up a satellite dish at this point and get it aligned. If at some point you're interested in looking at the freesat channels you can pick up a cheap receiver.

Price depends on aerial quality, if amplifiers are used etc.. but 250 sounds a little excessive
 
Post is a bit late but why not make your own aerial. Look it up on you tube. You could make one for about 5 euro. It will work.

or buy one for about 35 euro and put it in your attic/loft. It does not need to be on the roof. Alternatively. Use rabbit ears
 

The OP lives in a remote area with poor TV reception. What evidence have you that a piece of wire will be good enough ?
 
What evidence do you have to make you think I was talking about using a piece of wire.
 
huskerdu said:
The OP lives in a remote area with poor TV reception. What evidence have you that a piece of wire will be good enough ?
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Well I live in a remote area and get all 4 Irish stations with nothing more than a coat hanger in the attic.
 
To the OP - we were in the same position a couple of years ago with the same price offered. We went for free to air instead - same price + plenty more stations. A no-brainer.
 
CrazyWater said:
Well I live in a remote area and get all 4 Irish stations with nothing more than a coat hanger in the attic.
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It isn't the being remote that's the issue, it's the distance and line of sight to the transmitter.
 
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