Magnet WebTV, Watch Free Irish TV Channels live

Watch RTE 1, RTE2, TV3, 3e and TG4 on the internet for free live: https://www.magnetwebtv.ie register now and get a coupon for a free pizza from the Pizza hut either online or over the phone.

I imagine this would be good for students that are living in apartments and don't want to pay for TV licenses.

All you need is a 1MB connection ( So I suppose in rural areas even Mobile broadband could work OR on the go)

Nemeses

I think you have to be a Magnet customer to avail of this service

Nemeses

Nemeses wrote: »

I think you have to be a Magnet customer to avail of this service

Well unless Magnet and Vodafone partnered there's no ties. In fact I'm watching Judge Judy right now on my computer. All you need is a 1MB connection and adobe flash.

Spear

Nemeses wrote: »

I think you have to be a Magnet customer to avail of this service

It works on my UPC connection, but a different Irish IP is blocked. There's some form of geo-blocking in place, probably just a whitelist of the main ISPs in Ireland.

Nemeses

Interesting. I tried it on another connection (Irish Fixed Wifi) and told me that I wasn't able to view because I wasn't a Magnet BB customer. I am a magnet customer at home.
Interesting.. I'll try it here at work

Update : Fricking awesome! I was clearly wrong. works here no bother. must be this fixed wifi so. ah well

JTMan

Great to see.

This is the first step towards true internet TV. I hope Magnet expand their packages soon.

There should be no problems with any Irish ISPs. BBC and channel 4 and other English channels require the Magnet broadband and €3.99 a month but the Irish channels are all free. Makes me proud to live in Ireland! I'd like to see a iOS application! Android is ok because it has flash anyway!

vandriver

Watching now on my HTC desire.Good find.

vandriver

vandriver wrote: »

Watching now on my HTC desire.Good find.

1. Is it smooth?
2. Does the sound work?

I'd see this used for students that don't want TV licences and have Laptops and watching Good TV on the go

vandriver

Tested on wifi and 3 signal. Works really well. The sound is clear and the picture is smooth with only very slight stuttering every so often.

watty

Good for using up your cap,

I'll stick to a USB DTT stick on Laptop and get 6 TV channels +10 Radio. With DVD quality, and part time HD.

watty

watty wrote: »

Good for using up your cap,

I'll stick to a USB DTT stick on Laptop and get 6 TV channels +10 Radio. With DVD quality, and part time HD.

I dunno, I have a 270GB DSL cap and I can monitor it, also remember it's SD and the requirement is quite low, 1 MBPs! Remember that youtube needs about 2 megabytes to stream 360P at a medium bit-rate.

Hehe as a nerd that loves Pizza boo ya!

MASTER...of the bra

Like Watty said, most of the country don't have the option to avail of this because of the crap broadband packages/providers here.

Ten years from now I doubt much will have changed either.

Out of curiosity watty, where can I get USB DTT stick and what are the 6 channels you get? (3e by any chance?) Saves me spending hours looking it up.:o

watty

Loads of Places. Windows 7 needs no software. If using XP/Vista you need stick with good supplied software.

Yes 3e is FTA on Saorview. PayTV otherwise. http://www.saortv.info/channels/

USB DTT sticks
About €9 to €15 online for single Tuner (€20 to €35 in Maplin, PC World etc).
About €28 to €32 for dual tuner online (need for PVR when 2nd Mux starts).
Review of Dual Tuner (suitable for PVR) http://www.techtir.ie/reviews/mobidtv-dual-usb-dtt.
Make sure what you buy for windows (XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Win7, no earlier versions) has a BDA driver, and if not for Windows 7, that it has full application with bundled Codec. Some makes the Application has MHEG5, which is really needed. Windows 7 has MHEG5 and MPEG4 built in. DVB-T or DVB-T2 works. HD and MPEG4 is purely your PC, not the stick.

You need a better aerial than one with it unless you can see the mast
UHF is what is needed: http://www.techtir.ie/radio-tv/uhf-aerials

If using Linux or Apple see http://www.techtir.ie/node/1003625

If you have a PC with PCI slots and somewhere for a Dish, then you can have HD Satellite PVR at 1/10th of price of a good "Freesat HD" PVR.

With a PC and the size of drives now and a Dual Tuner USB Stick, even when Irish DTT is 9 or 10 channels you could record all channels continuously (About 48Mbps data rate) on rotating 1 week basis, and simply browse the last 7 days, never need to schedule recordings and mark what you want to keep. Potentially true instant HD quality VOD!.

charlie1966

Deleted User wrote: »

I imagine this would be good for students that are living in apartments and don't want to pay for TV licenses.

I believe the law was changed recently to take into account watching TV on a computer screen. I never thought students gave much thought into paying for a TV license.

I do know a few people that have good broadband and crap terrestrial reception. This could work for them.
Is this going to be a long term service from Magnet?

watty

Deleted User wrote: »

I dunno, I have a 270GB DSL cap and I can monitor it, also remember it's SD and the requirement is quite low, 1 MBPs! Remember that youtube needs about 2 megabytes to stream 360P at a medium bit-rate.

Hehe as a nerd that loves Pizza boo ya!

1Mbps? Rubbish quality/frame rate then. For RTE1 & RTE2, then RTE's own site may be as good.
We use 512k bps for personal media player encoding, 3.5" and 4.3" screens. More than a 7" screen and this will look rubbish compared to a real TV broadcast, which are all migrating to HD.

This is nearly just a stunt. Unless there is massive infrastructure and Fibre to Home/Kerb, then TV on Web is about 1/4 the quality of 1936 405 Line TV, just coloured. Better than a Baird Televisor though.

This isn't remotely like proper TV viewing.

jom1133

Can't seem to even sign up for this - tried to register but nothing happens and haven't received email confirmationo... unalbe to log in etc...

watty

watty wrote: »

1Mbps? Rubbish quality/frame rate then. For RTE1 & RTE2, then RTE's own site may be as good.
We use 512k bps for personal media player encoding, 3.5" and 4.3" screens. More than a 7" screen and this will look rubbish compared to a real TV broadcast, which are all migrating to HD.

This is nearly just a stunt. Unless there is massive infrastructure and Fibre to Home/Kerb, then TV on Web is about 1/4 the quality of 1936 405 Line TV, just coloured. Better than a Baird Televisor though.

This isn't remotely like proper TV viewing.

You should just check out the quality yourself. I mean some people don't care about infranstrucutres and fibre and kerbs and just want to watch Border Control

charlie1966

charlie1966 wrote: »

I believe the law was changed recently to take into account watching TV on a computer screen. I never thought students gave much thought into paying for a TV license.

Google chrome ignoto mode. :cool:

Mountjoy Mugger

"Showing results for "chrome incognito mode". Search instead for "chrome ignoto mode""

Mountjoy Mugger

Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »

"Showing results for "chrome incognito mode". Search instead for "chrome ignoto mode""

Chortal dude, I use safari.

adrian.s

jom1133 wrote: »

Can't seem to even sign up for this - tried to register but nothing happens and haven't received email confirmationo... unalbe to log in etc...

Hi There,

There's an issue with the registration page on the current version of the site if you're coming from particular versions of IE (7 in particular). We'll be putting a fix up for it later this afternoon.

Could you let me know what browser you are using to access it?

Many Thanks
Adrian.

Gruser

changing channel doesnt seem to work in chrome. works fine in ie7

watty

Deleted User wrote: »

You should just check out the quality yourself. I mean some people don't care about infranstrucutres and fibre and kerbs and just want to watch Border Control

Don't make assumptions




IMO this is a stunt to gather User info for marketing. They already have fibre and TV feeds for their real TV customers.

Some people are just easily satisfied.

How many are reading the Terms and Conditions?

How many have tried RTE's own web player or Free Digital TV via an aerial?

watty

watty wrote: »

Don't make assumptions




IMO this is a stunt to gather User info for marketing. They already have fibre and TV feeds for their real TV customers.

Some people are just easily satisfied.

How many are reading the Terms and Conditions?

How many have tried RTE's own web player or Free Digital TV via an aerial?

The only terms and conditions is about the pizza. Link me up! Also why use RTE's web player / TV3 as you have to wait for the program to air on TV before using it, and not all programs are available for catchup: For e.g RTE showed Eastwick at night and never archived those episodes and your on a bus home or something (that was a bad example). I already have digital TV ( expect it's not a fancy one where you get billions of channels and record it. I just use iTunes TV HD)

Edit: Yea sue me Fig 3.3 on T&C

3. Acceptable Use
You agree that any use by You of the Webtv Site shall be in accordance with the following conditions:
3.1 You will not copy, record, download, reproduce, republish, frame, broadcast, transmit any of the Service in any manner whatsoever.
3.2 You will not do anything that affects the operation or security of the Webtv Site or causes unreasonable inconvenience or offence or disruption to our staff or users.
3.3. Magnet Networks reserves the right to alter, edit, modify, remove or shut down all or part of the Webtv Website or its contents without notice.

Your my hero....

Still, I think this will be fine. Magnet has enough coin and it's not like RTE player is giving us HD here.

watty

You are stunningly missing the point.

Kentaree

Gruser wrote: »

changing channel doesnt seem to work in chrome. works fine in ie7

I ran into this issue too, turned out the by Adblock not liking something on the site. I turned it off for the site and I could change channels again

PogMoThoin

Yay, free marketing with something thats already free

Gruser

Kentaree wrote: »

I ran into this issue too, turned out the by Adblock not liking something on the site. I turned it off for the site and I could change channels again

lovely thats it sorted thanks

Nollog

charlie1966 wrote: »

I believe the law was changed recently to take into account watching TV on a computer screen. I never thought students gave much thought into paying for a TV license.

Last I heard, RTE's claims were thrown out.

Quality was pretty bad when I did a quick look, but then it's free...

Klingon Hamlet

"Login failed. Bad credentials" keeps coming up.

Tried multiple password resets. Argh:(

rampantglory

hope they get it sorted to work on the ps3 browser soon

adrian.s

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

"Login failed. Bad credentials" keeps coming up.

Tried multiple password resets. Argh:(

Hi There,

If you dm over your username on the system, I'll take a look to see what's going on.

I work for the company that operates this service for Magnet.

Regards,
Adrian Skehill.

Calom Technologies.

LEIN

I'm already receiving the spam emails asking me to move to magnet.

watty

Also The Irish Internet seems to have slowed since this service started. I wonder how much extra data it is at peak viewing times?

PogMoThoin

Damo9090 wrote: »

I'm already receiving the spam emails asking me to move to magnet.

Yes, this is all about getting your email address and permission from you to allow them send spam

LEIN

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Yes, this is all about getting your email address and permission from you to allow them send spam

Gathered that.

My email spam filter has been assigned a new email address.

rampantglory

why is bbc three never working???

and when is it coming to the ps3?

MinnyMinor

is watching tv heavy on download allowance/

watty

yes, the better the quality the heavier it is.

If lots do it, it makes Internet slower for everyone as Irish Infrastructure is poor.

MASTER...of the bra

MinnyMinor wrote: »

is watching tv heavy on download allowance/

Not really, I watched a program on RTE Player the other night, 50mins only used 150MB. The fuzzy bits you see every now and then are due to compression so as to load quicker and it uses less allowance as a result aswell.

MASTER...of the bra

watty wrote: »

yes, the better the quality the heavier it is.

If lots do it, it makes Internet slower for everyone as Irish Infrastructure is poor.

This is true. There handy when you miss something. I wouldn't use it myself otherwise.

watty

This is one to get out the Popcorn and Watch?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=71040140

adrian.s

rampantglory wrote: »

why is bbc three never working???

and when is it coming to the ps3?

Hi rampantglory, sorry for delay in getting back to you on this.

I hope your bbc3 problem is sorted, ping me (or submit a query on the site when you see it and it should get sorted out very quickly).

Now, on the PS3 support, we're moving in that direction. Early next week we will be pushing a new version of the site which will start to expose out the API to allow different types of client to access the content. This version will be aimed at Apple devices such as iPad and iPhone so you will be able to access the site using those to start, with the possibility of apps later on.

We're then going to take a look to see how we can best support the PS3 as a device and what would be involved. I'll keep you posted on this.

Warm Regards,
Adrian.

Calom Technologies.

rampantglory

Thanks for ur reply Adrian ,
I look forward to magnet tv on my other devices
cheers

WOOT!!! SORRY I NEED TO BE IN BED!! BUT MAGNETWEBTV WORKS ON THE IPHONE AND IPAD + IT'S AIRPLAY ENABLED FOR APPLETV.... It seems though you developed 2 APIS! One for the iPad and one for iPhone as the iPhone has a widescreen video where as the iPad plays in 4:3

http://yfrog.com/h4trnwj


http://yfrog.com/hsg2xtcj

http://yfrog.com/h4phtvmj

Dazza

Deleted User wrote: »

WOOT!!! SORRY I NEED TO BE IN BED!! BUT MAGNETWEBTV WORKS ON THE IPHONE AND IPAD + IT'S AIRPLAY ENABLED FOR APPLETV.... It seems though you developed 2 APIS! One for the iPad and one for iPhone as the iPhone has a widescreen video where as the iPad plays in 4:3

http://yfrog.com/h4trnwj



http://yfrog.com/hsg2xtcj

http://yfrog.com/h4phtvmj

So you need apple tv to make this work on ipad?

Darragh12

Darragh12 wrote: »

So you need apple tv to make this work on ipad?

No. You can stream the TV to your AppleTV

edanto

This is great. I watched a good 40 minutes of the Ireland-England game on my mobile on Saturday as I travelled into town on the Luas. For a live broadcast, the quality over 3G was fantastic.

Hopefully this lives on!

donalfo

What a shame, it worked well until they placed their own ad at the start, iPhone does not recognize the format of the ad so it doesn't show live tv any more. I sent a message and they said that it would be sorted that day. That was a week ago. Hopefully it'll be sorted, it was a good service while it lasted.

Thor

donalfo wrote: »

What a shame, it worked well until they placed their own ad at the start, iPhone does not recognize the format of the ad so it doesn't show live tv any more. I sent a message and they said that it would be sorted that day. That was a week ago. Hopefully it'll be sorted, it was a good service while it lasted.

I just tried it there on my iPhone and it's working fine.

The ad played first, Then i was able to play any channel.