RTE Player in Gran Canaria.

Xenophile

Watched both of today's games on RTE Player in Gran Canaria. No problem with the football, froze about five times during the hurling.

Equipment used, Internet Explorer 8..........Windows XP.........Movistar Modem...download speed 22.74 on Land Line.

Overall very Happy, especially as it was free today!

howiya

A lad I follow on twitter tweeted to RTE during the game about his difficulties watching the game and they replied. Seemed proactive but whether it resolved the difficulties I'm not sure…

I'd imagine while the free trial is going they'll be looking to resolve any issues people are having. Its normally when you're a paying customer that people don't care what you think.

Might be worth sending them an email

munchkin_utd

problems too for the hurling with ipad (ipad rte player app obviously) but rte did put a second lower quality stream up on the player which was far more stable

there shouldnt be this problem for the replay as it'll likely not be shown if the precident of the Tyrone Down replay is anything to go by.

Just for reference, heres the games to be televised that weekend.

Saturday 7 June Leinster Hurling Quarter-Final Kilkenny v Offaly 1900 SKY
Sunday 8 June Connacht Football Semi-Final Roscommon v Mayo 1400 RTÉ
Sunday 8 June Leinster Football Quarter-Final Dublin v Laois 1600 RTÉ

petronius

Wonder if sometime soon in the future you will have to put in your Licence fee number (or broadcasting fee tax number) to watch the RTE player - the way you have to use a SKY ID for some content on their sites?

munchkin_utd

petronius wrote: »

Wonder if sometime soon in the future you will have to put in your Licence fee number (or broadcasting fee tax number) to watch the RTE player - the way you have to use a SKY ID for some content on their sites?

no. Not a chance.
That will never happen as the captive market of exiles abroad would just get a licence number from their mum/ dad/ brother in ireland and avoid paying whatever fee would otherwise be owed.

And more fundamentally, RTE has not got the rights for GAA abroad so they couldnt offer this even if they wanted to in the first place .

BTW, an irish sky account will not work abroad so having a sky id is no help anyhow to watch sky outside of ireland/ uk region.

petronius

Sky may complain those pesky ex-pats are watching the matches without paying mr murdochs company.
RTE should be mandated to make it easier and free to air(online and via satellite) for irish abroad to get irish content such as GAA matches. We are (as in the case of the gathering) touching up ex-pats to return as tourists, or investing in Ireland, building the connection with the diaspora and providing them with the service would be beneficial and fare.

munchkin_utd

petronius wrote: »

Sky may complain those pesky ex-pats are watching the matches without paying mr murdochs company.
RTE should be mandated to make it easier and free to air(online and via satellite) for irish abroad to get irish content such as GAA matches. We are (as in the case of the gathering) touching up ex-pats to return as tourists, or investing in Ireland, building the connection with the diaspora and providing them with the service would be beneficial and fare.

you obviously have missed the fact that there is a new GAA streaming service called GAA go, ran in conjuction with RTE, which does just that.

Its not cheap, €110 for the season or €10/€14 euro per game, but with this paid solution they should have the cash to buy what streaming capacity is needed - which the old free RTE player simply didn't have.
http://gaago.rte.ie/

nice_guy80

I'm sure plenty of pubs in the canaries would have the games on