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year. RTĂ said that the combined offering was designed to be the most cost-effective solution for viewers and broadcasters, to offer for the first time 100% coverage of free-to-air public service television services in the
Republic of Ireland and to provide full national back-up coverage on satellite in the event of an emergency or catastrophic failure of the DTT system.
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satellites at 28° East was not considered an option due to its large footprint covering the UK, France and many other countries. Irish broadcasters acquire rights on the basis that programming is broadcast to Irish audiences (i.e. some 4.5 million people) and not to approx 100 million people within
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Oireachtas committee the proposed RTĂ NL operated Saorsat is expected to be a copy of Saorview. As of 28 May 2011 the test loop used the same total bitrate as the
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terrestrial DTT mux. A dual feed dish (with Ku and Ka LNBFs) or a separate second boxed
Cassegrain "dish" is required with a Diseqc switch and HD DVB-S2 tuner to have Freesat and Saorsat on the same set-box or IDTV receiver.
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switches or a multi-switch. On a multi-switch the Saorsat LNB needs to be connected to vertical 0 kHz port only. The other 3 input ports are left unused.
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