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RTE/BBC on Skygo?

  • 26-06-2015 2:57pm
    #1
    APM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    Is RTE or BBC available on Skygo nowadays? Can't seem to find any recent threads on this.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    ftakeith
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭ftakeith


    APM wrote: »
    Hi all,
    Is RTE or BBC available on Skygo nowadays? Can't seem to find any recent threads on this.

    Thanks

    bbctv not available in ireland

    rtetv is not available on skygo


  • #3
    Slippin Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,033 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    Better off using the rte player.


  • #4
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    AFAIK BBC is not available on Sky Go even within the UK.

    Channel 4 is only UK terrestrial available to Irish Sky Go viewers.


  • #5
    homingbird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭homingbird


    Kodi is better you should try it.


  • #6
    ei9go
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭ei9go


    Install "Live Tv" into windows 8.1 and you can watch all BBC channels and even a couple of the Freeview channels not available on Freesat. Yesterday, Quest dave & Really


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  • #7
    aphex™
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭aphex™


    They don't even have Sky 1 on it AFAIK.
    Pathetic.


  • #8
    Avada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭Avada


    aphex™ wrote: »
    They don't even have Sky 1 on it AFAIK.
    Pathetic.

    Yes they do


  • #9
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    aphex™ wrote: »
    They don't even have Sky 1 on it AFAIK.
    Pathetic.

    Have you actually used Sky Go?


  • #10
    Gerry Wicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,568 ✭✭✭Gerry Wicklow


    filmon.tv you can watch almost all UK free TV, not geo locked either AFAIK


  • #11
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    We might not talk about sites that are streaming without the BBC's permission. I know some people think it is different because it is an FTA channel but it really isn't


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  • #12
    ei9go
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭ei9go


    Sorry, I assumed that the Live TV app was not steaming without permission because it looks and works so well and with excellent picture quality.

    In passing, I was using a Three Ireland myfi in the UK recently using their roam like home service.

    I tried to connect to the BBC iPlayer and was told that I was outside the UK even though I was not and RTE seemed happy that I was in Ireland and would play any TV.


  • #13
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    ei9go wrote: »
    I was using a Three Ireland myfi in the UK recently using their roam like home service.

    I tried to connect to the BBC iPlayer and was told that I was outside the UK even though I was not and RTE seemed happy that I was in Ireland and would play any TV.

    Because Internet Geoblock is nothing to do with PHYSICALLY where you are, but who is the manager (ISP) of the IP address you access the server with.

    Clue in name. Three Ireland, roam like home.

    Nothing odd about it at all.


  • #14
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,636 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    What's the official situation with film on? Are BBC in the know ( and happy) about it?


  • #15
    ftakeith
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭ftakeith


    colmtheperson wrote: »
    What's the official situation with film on? Are BBC in the know ( and happy) about it?

    film on is illegal and the bbc are not happy


  • #16
    B17G
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭B17G


    Sky Go monthly ticket service has finished it seems. Is this in the UK only or has it ended in the RoI too?

    http://help.sky.com/articles/watch-sky-online-without-a-subscription?country=ie


  • #17
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,556 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    B17G wrote: »
    Sky Go monthly ticket service has finished it seems. Is this in the UK only or has it ended in the RoI too?

    http://help.sky.com/articles/watch-sky-online-without-a-subscription?country=ie
    See this thread in the Sky "talk to" forum


  • #18
    B17G
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭B17G


    Cheers. The OP appears to be in a bit of a pickle going by the Sky reps reply to him. Why won't Sky launch NOW TV here? Theres a Sky Sports only option starting next month on it in the UK for £31.99 per month. Already a movies option currently available for £9.99 a month. RoI subscribers really do get the sh*tty end of the stick as regards value for money compared to the UK.


  • #19
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,556 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    B17G wrote: »
    RoI subscribers really do get the sh*tty end of the stick as regards value for money compared to the UK.
    Couldn't agree more :mad:


  • #20
    B17G
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭B17G


    muffler wrote: »
    Couldn't agree more :mad:

    Yip. As regards losing the Sky Go monthly ticket option, if you read the NOW TV FAQs the advice is to switch to NOW TV to continuing viewing. An option denied to RoI viewers. Why won't they launch it here I wonder?

    http://help.nowtv.com/article/Sky-Go-Monthly-Ticket-to-NOW-TV-FAQs


  • #21
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    My view FWIW is that they don't think they need to. In the UK, the percentage of pay-TV "refuseniks" is far higher (helped by the fact that Freeview is a better alternative to pay-TV in the UK than Saorview is here). Now TV is designed as a "gateway" service to get people who don't want to commit to a twelve month contract to taste what pay TV has to offer. Contrast this with here where pay-TV has a 70% take up (rising to over 90% in parts of Dublin). Sky don't need Now TV in Ireland to convince people of the merits of pay TV. Rather, their battle is to convince cable customers who are already paying to give their money to Sky instead. I am not sure why cable is not an option for that OP: there would be relatively few appartment blocks where there is neither cable nor Communal Sky.


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  • #22
    B17G
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭B17G


    I'm wondering though with the better availability of high speed broadband would many see Now Tv as a gateway option? The new Sky Sports only no contract plan will be launching next month for £31.99 per month as opposed to £45.50 pm and a 12 month contract via a dish. It's a considerable saving. The movies option is available at £9.99 pm.


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