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Wed Jul 5 18:15:18 IST 2006

(Genesis) and you would not be in a position to divulge 'Sensitive 
Internal Company Information', so once again I throw the gauntlet down to 
you and ask again prove to us what you offer.

Cheers
Robert

(BTW. Eircom XDSL should be in full swing nationwide by Q3 2001)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronan Kirby <ronan at kirby.ie>
To: cork at linux.ie
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 18:15:59 +0000
Subject: [CLUG] [OT] Chorus Digital

> Folks,
> 
> Sorry for the off topic post, but I thought this might interest some
> people:
> 
> Got Chorus Digital installed this morning. They use a Sagem ITD 4000
> digital decoder
> http://www.sagem.com/en/produits-en/terminaux-num-en/tv-itd4000-en.htm
> 
> It has about 106 channels, but once they programme your smart card you
> will obviously only have what you pay for. The quality etc you would
> expect, but it seems there are still a lot of outages due to continuing
> roll out of the service.
> 
> The decoder has 2 scart sockets, one for your TV and one for the Video.
> Its fairly limit in what you can do in it's menus, but all the operator
> settings are there. There is an RS232 port on the back, but I've yet to
> ascertain what can be done from there *grin*. There is also an RJ11
> port
> on the back, which is used to order Pay-Per-View events, and for the
> Internet service.
> 
> The Internet service is not "always on". From what I can tell it
> requests via the phone line, and sends back to you via the MMDS. I
> didn't get it myself, as it meant using Chorus for my phone lines.
> Also,
> you can't use it for your PC / LAN, its TV Browsing only. But seemingly
> they will have a fully bi-directional via MMDS phone service soon, at
> which point it will have a new decoder box, and possibly an interface
> for your PC.
> 
> TV wise its fine. The odd channel has a little pixelisation. Full
> stereo
> sound etc (how refreshing!).
> 
> I'll send any more relevant info I find on the box, as I get it.
> 
> - Ronan
> 
> 
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