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Bye bye Freesat and Saorview in urban Ireland
I got the dish and aerial disconnected today.
With Apple 4K TV devices and smart phones, the Freesat and Saorview were hardly used mostly in the last 12 months.
Apple tv devices gives me the RTÉ Player, virgin media tv player, tg4 player & channel four on demand.
I also have Eir TV to record BBC tv channels.
Bye bye Freesat and Saorview.
The disconnection costs me 120euros
With Apple 4K TV devices and smart phones, the Freesat and Saorview were hardly used mostly in the last 12 months.
Apple tv devices gives me the RTÉ Player, virgin media tv player, tg4 player & channel four on demand.
I also have Eir TV to record BBC tv channels.
Bye bye Freesat and Saorview.
The disconnection costs me 120euros
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My broadband & mobile are with the same company, Wi-Fi mobile data would step in if the home broadband goes down for my Apple 4K TV devices.
Freesat and Saorview hardly used as it is an expense in the future.
You do what's best for you, but I'm not sure why the need to pay someone to disconnect anything when you can just unplug your old TV boxes and carry on with your new kit.
There are 700,000 sky satellites in the republic of Ireland.
There are over 300,000 satellites and aerials in the republic of Ireland.
They all need to be taken down now before installers are gone.
I was one of the first persons in May 2003 to get an dish/aerial for Freesat/aerial in Ireland.
I am one of the early persons to realise that Freesat and Saorview are over now.
RTÉ Player, virgin media tv player, tg4 player & channel four on demand are available for free in the republic of Ireland on many legal streaming devices or the Irish version of freely.
And you are completely wrong about everything - and rather gullible to pay 120 Euros to have your dish and aerial taken down, did it take him four hours?.
Explain to me what I am wrong about?
70 minutes to take down the dish/aerial, cables from the inside/outside.
30 Minutes to clean up some dust.
Freesat/Saorview are finished in Ireland as over 90% have fibre broadband now.
Disconnect now in Ireland, it is over .......
less choice.
Most of the BBC TV/ITV/Channel4/channel5 programmes end up on the RTE Player, Virgin TV Player, TG4 Player & channel 4 on demand for free streaming.
Freesat's new technology is hit & miss now.
Pulled the chord!
But do they need taking down, and why does the availability of installers matter?
Plenty of infrastructure remains in place long after it's stopped being actively used. If the day ever came when my aerial (or dish when TV via streaming fully takes over) became sufficiently rusty it appeared to be a hazard, I'd just get a set of ladders and remove them myself. In the meantime they're doing no harm staying where they are, and I don't have to trouble myself or worse pay someone to remove them.
Looking at post #6 a million homes are staying with aerials and satellite but if it makes the o/p happy...
Good luck to you if you can uninstall.
Most of the persons can't uninstall in Ireland. The time is now to disconnect freesat/Saorview in Ireland.
I got an scrap dealer that took away the dish/aerial/cables for free this morning.
All I'd have to do is unscrew the four bolts holding the bracket to the wall and the aerial or dish would come free to be passed down. If for some reason I wanted the cable run gone too, then I'd just remove the cable clips holding it in place with the claw of a hammer.
You're making it sound like removing them is in some way difficult. Provided you can climb a ladder and use a screwdriver and a hammer, it's easy.
I've never had an aerial on my house as it's within a few miles of a main transmitter with line-of-sight, a set-top type aerial has always sufficed for all terrestrial channels. I haven't had one connected nor watched anything via DTT for many years, though.
My parents recently had some work done on the roof and had their long disused rooftop television aerial removed at the same time, more from the point of view of "just in case". With the number of wind storms coming through every year these days, it'd only be a matter of time before it became damaged and may have ended up damaging the roof on its way down.
Can't see this happening in UK, plus how would they enforce. My dish is low down at back of house on garden side. How would they know. Are they planning to send round inspectors to check that dishes and aerials have been removed (mine is in loft so no one would know it's there).
In what way are Freesat and Saorview "an expense in the future"?
If you're already paying someone to be up there, and they don't mind doing you a quick favour by removing it, then sure, why not? But I wouldn't actively chose to pay someone to go up and do it when there's no urgency about it.
I never mentioned laws.
In a few years, the installers will be gone.
When the freesat signal goes, do you think there will reunions of ex satellite installers to take down the dishes in Ireland!
As others have said, I'd keep them for back up as long as they're not already about to fall down.
Sorry you have lost me at this bit. What cost saving have you achieved here?
You mention cordcutting in your other post but that is a term used for getting rid of Pay TV subscriptions.
As others have said, unless the dish and aerial were actually faulty and/or unsafe I would have left as is. Maybe unplugged the box/leads if it really bothered me.
"Dishes and aerials will be illegal next year gov, I'll take yours down for €120, it will be double that next year when all the installers have gone".
This is exactly what happened, there was someone up there (not sure what for, I don't live there!) and it was just a quick extra job while they were on the roof.
I still have old technology on my own house - I've had a fibre-optic internet connection for a while now, but there's still a completely redundant copper phone line which will most likely never get used again. I'd assume at some point these will get removed, if only for the value of all the copper attached to everyone's house!
Maybe not as the cost of removing the cable and recovering the copper will not be worth it. They won't be allowed to pile the cable up and set fire to the insulation like the low life do.
The installer was telling me, are you sure you want me to uninstall.
When Freesat is gone in the future, it could be 2030 or 2026 or sooner with advances in technology
If the home broadband goes down, my mobile broadband data will be my back up for my streaming devices