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As other EU countries look on, smartphone and tablet users in Sweden, who don't own a TV, will have to pay the country's national TV license from today

TV transmitters in Northern Ireland have started broadcasting Freeview ahead of the digital switch over. Some channels are available in the Republic.

Most of the population of Ireland has not upgraded to DTT, Saorview, but this might be a good thing as modern devices can view Saorview & Freeview together.

In exactly 100 days Ireland's television network will no longer be broadcast in analogue form, instead replaced by digital, marking the most significant change in Ireland's broadcast history since the coming of colour television in 1969.

Technology adapts and evolves but like other forms of evolution that means that some will die away. So, what technologies will no longer be with us in a few years?

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 has been set as the official date of completion of the switchover to Digital TV in Ireland. On that date analogue TV signals across the island of Ireland will be no longer be broadcast.

Saorview, RTÉ's free-to-air digital TV service launched in Ireland at the end of May. And over the past number of months readers have been asking us about it, so here are the most common Saorview questions and their answers.

The government's plans to tax online TV viewers with a "Universal Household Charge" is not supported by Irish TV viewers, according to a survey by broadband provider Magnet Networks.

RTE began testing its High Definition digital service in Dublin this week. The HD test broadcast is currently showing footage...