RTE PLAYER OPEN FOR INTERNATIONAL ACCESS

posullivan

Hi
have been playing around with RTE player tonight which seems to work for those outside of ireland
This seems to have changed since last i tried from the UK in end of November.The range is limited to mostly news based programmes as i was playing with the ROI version at home in ireland over Christmas and the full range of RTE programmes is on there. However there are still a few gems in there like oilean, summer of 69,and the late late show as well.
It is a lot more user friendly to access them this way than before when you had to go through the rte news section and go through each progamme individually.
I thought it might be a fluke but the FAQ has been changed to mention that it is now is open for international access.
Have a look and see what you think
http://www.rte.ie/player/#
I have also checked the TV3 player with a limited programme range which also seems to work at least for me here in the north of england,please try it and see if it works further afield
http://www.tv3.ie/
Of course this adds to the considerable amount of programming internationally from TG4 for all the irish abroad
http://www.tg4.ie/bearla/scei/beo.asp
Not sure if the info about RTE PLAYER going international has been "in the wild " yet but apologies if it has.
Have posted this on digitalspy as well, sorry but this is a big thing to all UK based Irish since the RTE International TV channel seems to be stillborn, at least someone in RTE is taking the "diaspora" seriously.
Cheers
Paul

peejay1986

This is brilliant! I'm at Uni in Chester (UK) and have had to use torrents for any irish shows.

Thanks for letting me know

Mossy Monk

Handy. I can now watch the news at work

Greenman

peejay1986 wrote: »

This is brilliant! I'm at Uni in Chester (UK) and have had to use torrents for any irish shows.

Thanks for letting me know

+1 +1 +1 Thanks very much.:):):)

Kensington

The Geo-blocking was lifted last Monday.

FREEBBC

Yayyyy wahooooo!

I hope BBC iPlayer would do the same to you.

patrickmooney

Naturally it's strictly limited. Over in wales at the moment and getting news etc.

Elmo

patrickmooney wrote: »

Naturally it's strictly limited. Over in wales at the moment and getting news etc.

Can you get RAW?

It a pity Equity are being stupid about Fair City.

exaisle

Elmo wrote: »

It a pity Equity are being stupid about Fair City.

...especially seeing as there's no acting in it.... ;-)

munchkin_utd

exaisle wrote: »

...especially seeing as there's no acting in it.... ;-)

Is that the reason that a load of the shows are blocked then? Do the actors get commission per viewership or whats the story?

And what about other things like documentaries or the house fixer uper programmes? Theres no actors in them and they are also blocked.

Elmo

munchkin_utd wrote: »

Is that the reason that a load of the shows are blocked then? Do the actors get commission per viewership or whats the story?

And what about other things like documentaries or the house fixer uper programmes? Theres no actors in them and they are also blocked.

Some of the shows will not be cleared due to rights reasons such as music used and clips from other shows.

Fair City is not on the player at all because equity have an issue with it.

Minstrel27

Elmo wrote: »

Can you get RAW?

Here is an idea of what is currently on it. A print screen of as much as my monitor would allow. The programming line up is very limited

Latchy

Funny enough I had only mentioned to somebody last week about not being able to ( bar the news ) view RTE programmes online so I for one am happy to see we now can with Real Player .

mjsmyth

@Minstrel27

Thats really not indicitive of all the shows on the RTE Player. The A to Z list gives a complete run down...

Minstrel27

That is all they show on the front page of the international version though.

Minstrel27

Having looked through the A-Z just now and there is hardly anything there either.

Greenman

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Having looked through the A-Z just now and there is hardly anything there either.

How right you are.:(

Why they never went for a Premium one ie the expats pay say €9.99 a month via PayPal and you get what licence payers get. A winwin situation.:)

But alas Montrose lets the expats down again.:(

declans

Get full access via www.overplay.net , with this service you can also access bbc iplayer hulu.com etc etc

Elmo

declans wrote: »

Get full access via www.overplay.net , with this service you can also access bbc iplayer hulu.com etc etc

Emmm don't think you can mention illegal site here. Shhh. Are they illegal?

Why they never went for a Premium one ie the expats pay say €9.99 a month via PayPal and you get what licence payers get. A winwin situation

Because they would have to by some kind of rights for the ex-Pats for imports, they possible couldn't afford worldwide pay rights even with a subscription fee.

declans

Elmo wrote: »

Emmm don't think you can mention illegal site here. Shhh. Are they illegal?

What sort of idiot are you , How could a VPN Provider be illegal , They provide the connections its upto the end user what they use them for.

Elmo

declans wrote: »

What sort of idiot are you , How could a VPN Provider be illegal , They provide the connections its upto the end user what they use them for.

I hadn't actually looked at your links before I posted. Hence the question at the end of my previous post.

But it does bring up other questions. Is the VPN provider paying rights to TV channels/Rights holders to allow people on their Virtual networks to view foreign TV.

And I know that for a long time in the States cable companies had the same argument. "We just provide the connection not really up to us what people do with the connection".

Pangea

Is the sunday game on it for you international guys?

Minstrel27

Pangea wrote: »

Is the sunday game on it for you international guys?

I spotted the Sunday Sport programme on it so I see no reason for The Sunday Game to appear when it starts again. IIRC, last year the Sunday Game was online for island of Ireland up until Wednesday. Then it was available worldwide.

solarchick

does anybody else hav problems with rte player??, i find it really frustrating and slow most of the time. i have good fast broadband which is fast for every other site but rte player. is there some trick im missing out on?!! hope somebody can help!:D

Elmo

solarchick wrote: »

does anybody else hav problems with rte player??, i find it really frustrating and slow most of the time. i have good fast broadband which is fast for every other site but rte player. is there some trick im missing out on?!! hope somebody can help!:D

You could try another Web Browser, which Web Browser are you currently using Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc?

solarchick

im using internet explorer most of the time but i tried google chrome aswell and its still the same.. it only seems to be in the past month or two it used to work fine, is there some setting that i need to enable or something.. its a pity u cant download the videos on it..instead of that round thing in the middle of the screen taking ages to load..u cant enjoy any show with that

Elmo

solarchick wrote: »

im using internet explorer most of the time but i tried google chrome aswell and its still the same.. it only seems to be in the past month or two it used to work fine, is there some setting that i need to enable or something.. its a pity u cant download the videos on it..instead of that round thing in the middle of the screen taking ages to load..u cant enjoy any show with that

Strange I just watched a show on the Player, no interruptions or logos appearing .

Have you tried deleting you Internet History and Cashe?