Digital TV – pay or free-to-air?

There are at last some promising signs that RTE’s Digital Terrestrial Television service (DTT) will finally come about, even though the proposed commercial arm of the project has fallen flat on its face following the decision of the third and last-remaining consortium, Easy TV, to pull out. But if you still want to cut household costs but still have decent free to air multi-channel TV, you can do what some folk have been doing for a few years now: buy a satellite dish to receive the UK Freesat service (or cancel Sky and use your Sky dish) combined with a analogue or DTT-ready TV aerial set-up to get the Irish channels.  As with many things that sound too good to be true, there are some snags to bear in mind.  See Irish Independent article here