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Irish TV on internet

frany · 2006-12-20 00:58:16

Hello, Can I watch Irish TV on internet anywhere? One of my friend got a flat in Dublin but there is no TV. So she wants to watch TV on internet but I can't find it. I will appreciate you if there is anyone to know this. cheers.

20-12-2006 12:58am

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frany

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Hello, Can I watch Irish TV on internet anywhere?
One of my friend got a flat in Dublin but there is no TV.
So she wants to watch TV on internet but I can't find it.
I will appreciate you if there is anyone to know this. cheers.

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#2 20-12-2006 1:08am

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As far as I know, you can watch TG4 at www.tg4.tv

I don't think RTÉ do a web feed, and there's no (*legal*) feed of other Irish or UK stations that I know of.

Buy a television... or check out <MOD EDIT: No discussing illegal streaming>

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#3 20-12-2006 9:26am

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You can't watch TV on internet anyway but for more than a few minutes on a PC. The quality and resolution is FAR, FAR worse than any 2" mobile phone.

If she is south side inside M50, then a TV with a basic set top aerial with give four channels.

NOT the VHF Rabbits ears or the magic electronic aerials, but the kind that has a broad alumimum strip near one end and about 4 half sized "knitting needles" all on a plastic boom on the stand. Usually about 3 to 5 rods as a reflector at the end near the broad aerial strip where coax cable comes from.

See http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055031195

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#4 20-12-2006 3:52pm

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I appreciate all of your good answers. Thanks very much.

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#5 20-12-2006 3:55pm

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If you know someone with a slingbox you can connect to their slingbox to watch TV over the net. Only way I know of.

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#6 20-12-2006 9:50pm

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Hobbes wrote:

If you know someone with a slingbox you can connect to their slingbox to watch TV over the net. Only way I know of.

As she only wants Irish TV though, it would probably be cheaper to buy an aerial and telly (or TV tuner card) than buy a Slingbox

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#7 21-12-2006 8:34am

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Hobbes wrote:

If you know someone with a slingbox you can connect to their slingbox to watch TV over the net. Only way I know of.

Totally impracticable. Using the entirety of someones upload Broadband and need broadband at each end and have about 1/4 the quality of off air TV and have to have PC TV tuner dedicated at other end.

If you can get a signal, then TV aerial, cable or sat dish is better quality, cheaper and more enviromentally friendly.

Off Air TV is about 1/10,000th of running cost of Slingbox and available to maybe 8x as many people, instantly. Slingbox and similar things are yuppie toys.

Really the issue is not TV orver net, but TV receptiom. IPTV is a red herring... in this context.

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#8 17-06-2012 6:58am

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here you can watch all Irish tv online

http://www.aertv.ie/

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#9 17-06-2012 11:26am

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Yes 6 years later you can!!!!!!!!

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#10 17-06-2012 9:07pm

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Closed.

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#11 18-06-2012 3:38pm

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Perfect example of how technology has changed!!!

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