4oD back in Ireland!

ibarelycare

Just got this email:

Dear ,

Thank you for your email regarding 4oD.

As someone who contacted us to register your disappointment that the 4oD
service was no longer available in the Republic of Ireland, we thought we'd
let you know that from today, you'll once again be able to access all the
great Channel 4 programming on 4oD.

For more details please go to: www.channel4.com/4od

We hope you enjoy using the service.

If you require further information, feel free to email me back or visit
http://help.channel4.com/catch-up

Regards,

Mark King
Channel 4 Customer Support

Woohoo!

Tupins

I got the same one - woo hoo!

As I say to my husband - sometimes it's really worth it to complain

calum

Another happy recipient of the email here

dMaN24

Thanks! I've missed it.
(But i never thought of even expressing my like you did, shame on me.)

ScumLord

Excellent news!

Reginald P. DuM

This is indeed wonderful news. Boredom banishing TV on demand. Superwb!

davej

Great news

Watching Jon Stewart right now

What's the story with itunes downloads? Can you download and watch episodes offline?

davej

binga

I got that email yesterday too. Happy days!!

Skid

That's brilliant news, I always liked 4OD, It's even better now you can watch directly on the website. Fair play to Channel 4 for sorting it out.

Mossy Monk

Mr.S wrote: »

Next up..BBC!

If C4 can do it, surley BBC can aswell?

Licence fee payers in the UK would be annoyed, and rightly too imo. If RTÉ opened up the RTÉ Player worldwide for free I would be annoyed

Kinky Slinky

Nice

adamski8

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Licence fee payers in the UK would be annoyed, and rightly too imo. If RTÉ opened up the RTÉ Player worldwide for free I would be annoyed

why?
i remember being abroad one time and wanting to watch an ireland match and going to internet cafe to watch it online to discover i couldnt and seeing as tv's there didnt have rte(obvioulsy) it was very dissapointing. pretty annoying for people paying for their license and not being able to see it just because they arent in ireland at the time.

DublinWriter

The missus will be impressed.

I don't know how they've got around the whole rights issues though.

Mossy Monk

adamski8 wrote: »

why?
i remember being abroad one time and wanting to watch an ireland match and going to internet cafe to watch it online to discover i couldnt and seeing as tv's there didnt have rte(obvioulsy) it was very dissapointing. pretty annoying for people paying for their license and not being able to see it just because they arent in ireland at the time.

They will only have the rights to show it within Ireland. That's why you could not watch a match abroad.

smackyB

Hey ppls, just in case people had given up on the prospect of it ever returning, head on over to channel4.com - 4OD now works!

Wook

excellent !!!

Wook

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Licence fee payers in the UK would be annoyed, and rightly too imo. If RTÉ opened up the RTÉ Player worldwide for free I would be annoyed

As if RTE would have anything the other countries want...

smackyB

thanks for moving my thread mod, didn't see the older thread

Ed_

Wook wrote: »

As if RTE would have anything the other countries want...

Have a look around this website and you will see that there has been questions about its availability.

adamski8

Mossy Monk wrote: »

They will only have the rights to show it within Ireland. That's why you could not watch a match abroad.

yeah i realise that but was just wondering why you would be annoyed if rte online was available anywhere in the world?

prioryc

I love having 4oD great selection of stuff....any chance we could get the beeb to open up to us too? there excuse has been one that 4oD have proven to be bull....anyway Kudos to channel 4 and there great programme's

calum

prioryc wrote: »

I love having 4oD great selection of stuff....any chance we could get the beeb to open up to us too? there excuse has been one that 4oD have proven to be bull....

How so? BBC's 'excuse' is that their content should only be available to the BBC licence payers who subsidise it, and you can only buy a BBC licence in the UK, therefore BBC iPlayer is only available in the UK. None of that is applicable to Channel 4.

prioryc

calum wrote: »

How so? BBC's 'excuse' is that their content should only be available to the BBC licence payers who subsidise it, and you can only buy a BBC licence in the UK, therefore BBC iPlayer is only available in the UK. None of that is applicable to Channel 4.

calum wrote: »

How so? BBC's 'excuse' is that their content should only be available to the BBC licence payers who subsidise it, and you can only buy a BBC licence in the UK, therefore BBC iPlayer is only available in the UK. None of that is applicable to Channel 4.

Bandwidth was the excuse used that i read,and besides that we've enjoyed getting BBC 1,2 for fourty years or so & 3,4 cbbc,cbeebies,News,all digital radio channels,have access to BBC news online & radio for the last 5 or more and yet i don't have a "BBC licence" for that but i still get it and i don't hear people who have subsidized it or the BBC up in arms over that.

My point is like channel 4 have shown & embraced we already get C4 and all its other related channels like the bbc but with 4oD too and yet with no bandwidth or any other little issues if they cant show it then its not available 4oD simple as that so no point in holding back the online content on Beeb in my opinion if theres a market for it with a possible revenue too i.e paid for a HD i player or just free it with free low band etc etc..just a thought

Minstrel27

prioryc wrote: »

we've enjoyed getting BBC 1,2 for fourty years or so & 3,4 cbbc,cbeebies,News,all digital radio channels,have access to BBC news online & radio for the last 5 or more and yet i don't have a "BBC licence" for that but i still get it and i don't hear people who have subsidized it or the BBC up in arms over that.

You receive those channels because of your geographical location. The BBC aren't intentionally providing them to you. Sky and cable made deals with BBC Worldwide to include some BBC channels on their EPG's but this does not mean that their content is being aimed at you.

If you would like to see UK licence payers give out about Johnny foreigner watching their channels for free take a trip over to Digital Spy.

prioryc

Yawn ...i was just saying it would be nice... go start an argument somewhere else if your so bothered over it.:rolleyes:

Minstrel27

Yawn yourself. I was not starting an arguement. Bothered is what I read in post number 24 of this thread.

ScumLord

Minstrel27 wrote: »

If you would like to see UK licence payers give out about Johnny foreigner watching their channels for free take a trip over to Digital Spy.

They owe us! 800 years, potato famine and so on.

upsilon

is 4OD working for anyone? It was working until about 2 weeks ago, now I got the old "service is not avilable is your area" I am with digiweb.

scopper

Not working for me either. Seems they have gone back to old ways sadly.

clarke1991

follow the link http://www.youtube.com/user/4oDComedy?feature=chclk

ScumLord

Some of the American shows won't play (I'd assume there's a license clash with RTE and TV3) but all the channel 4 stuff works fine for me, I'm watching it right now.

See they're on about a HD service too, I tried it but didn't really see any difference?

calum

4od.com has been working fine for me (and still is today), with Vodafone as my ISP...

upsilon

yet it should work see here
I have tryed some c4 own prog like secret millionaire to make sure it is not a question of right. not working.

Dman001

Most of the content works for me, but there are some US shows that won't work like How I Met Your Mother will work but Southland won't.

Minstrel27

upsilon wrote: »

yet it should work see here
I have tryed some c4 own prog like secret millionaire to make sure it is not a question of right. not working.

Secret Millionaire works for me.

SoupyNorman

This is FANTASTIC!!!

yurmothrintites

My social life is going to be non existent after 4OD on Youtube. It's got so many programmes!