Watching RTE TV in the UK

Trotter

I might be moving for the UK for a little while later this year. Whats my options, or what do I need to do to be able to watch RTE TV in the UK? Can I do it using the regular cable companies or do I need to get satellite TV? If so, would any satellite package do or would it have to be the dear ones?

Cheers!

weehamster

Satellite is the only way. The mininuim you'll need is a Sky Family Package, €28 p/m and you'll need to get it while you're still living here as you require an Irish address.
When you move to the UK, take the Sky digibox with you and get an installer there to put in a new dish and cable.

julius

You can pick up a dish and LNB for next to nothing and positioning the disk is simple enough if there are others around as long as you have someone else monitoring the signal strength bars on the TV.

The great thing about Sky Digital is that you could watch RTE as far away as Greece if you have a 3 or 4 metre dish!!!

icdg

Thread moved to Broadcasting.

spockety

This is actually illegal, it involves defrauding Sky by providing false information on where you live, and circumventing measures put in place to protect RTE's content so that they can continue to get good deals on imported shows and sports rights..

Considering how quickly threads here get deleted about cable fraud, I'm surprised that this thread is allowed.

weehamster

spockety wrote:

This is actually illegal, it involves defrauding Sky by providing false information on where you live, and circumventing measures put in place to protect RTE's content so that they can continue to get good deals on imported shows and sports rights..

Considering how quickly threads here get deleted about cable fraud, I'm surprised that this thread is allowed.

Are you for real?

spockety

What do you mean am I for real?

I'm just pointing out that it is actually illegal, and that normally threads about how to circumvent access controls on cable are deleted instantly.

Are you for real?

Trotter

spockety wrote:

This is actually illegal, it involves defrauding Sky by providing false information on where you live, and circumventing measures put in place to protect RTE's content so that they can continue to get good deals on imported shows and sports rights..

Considering how quickly threads here get deleted about cable fraud, I'm surprised that this thread is allowed.

How about if I dont cancel the direct debit for the licence fee... will you undo the knot in your underpants then?

Seriously though, I was only wondering what my options were. I presumed considering I can listen to RTE Radio all over the world, and watch the news via broadband.. I doubt its a big issue for RTE. Sky would be getting my monthly fee so what do they care?

Hypothetical anyway.. I didnt get the course I wanted to do there so I wont be going. So you can chill amach again there spockety.

weehamster

Oh my god I think you are. Really sad.
There are 1000's of Irish systems outside this country and RTE knows this very well and they dont care. So why do you?

Macy

It's not illegal, and it's not fraud.

He'd be breaking the terms of his contract with sky, but it's not against the law. And since he's paying sky he's not defrauding them either.

DMC

spockety wrote:

Considering how quickly threads here get deleted about cable fraud, I'm surprised that this thread is allowed.

And thats as a result of the terms and conditions of the contract that is signed for the different providers of multi-channel TV.

icdg

To clarify, this isn't a "how do you you hack Sky Digital so I can recieve the Irish channels in England" thread. It is an innocent question, how can you recieve RTÉ in the UK. And there are perfectly legal answers:

(1) Live in Northern Ireland, and subscribe to the Sky Family Pack / or NTL Digital.
(2) Pick it up via off-air overspill.

It is different to a hacking cable question - hacking a cable system (or the Sky Digital conditional access system, for that matter) IS illegal and such threads will be deleted.

Richard

icdg wrote:

(1) Live in Northern Ireland, and subscribe to the Sky Family Pack / or NTL Digital.

Which raises the interesting question - whilst exporting a ROI subscription to the UK does appear to break the terms of the contract, does moving a NI subscription to Great Britain without informing Sky break the terms of the contract?

Trotter

Trotter wrote:

I might be moving for the UK for a little while later this year. Whats my options, or what do I need to do to be able to watch RTE TV in the UK? Can I do it using the regular cable companies or do I need to get satellite TV? If so, would any satellite package do or would it have to be the dear ones?

Cheers!

Talk about opening a can of worms... I dont know whether to apologise or giggle

SRB

does moving a NI subscription to Great Britain without informing Sky break the terms of the contract?

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You are required to inform them of a change of address, so I guess the answer is yes !

weehamster

Oh my God, I never realised there was so many do gooders out there. :eek:

Sky dont have a squad of people going from door to door asking people, do you have a official Sky subscription from a different country. They aren’t going to find out, so I don’t understand why people are worried about 'breaking the terms of contract'.

If you wanted to watch RTE on an official subscription, then its no problem and I've been in this game before sky even started. Tens of thousands of people do this and I have never heard of anyone been done for it. And Sky actually doesn’t mind it, once it’s an official subscription. They are still getting the money. A large slice of their income come from this market.

And don’t you dare apologise Trotter. Giggle yes, most defo. I find it funny too.

Macy

weehamster wrote:

And don’t you dare apologise Trotter. Giggle yes, most defo. I find it funny too.

Could've been worse - he could've posted on digital spy and got people going on about stealing TV

SRB

Guys, a question was asked :

does moving a NI subscription to Great Britain without informing Sky break the terms of the contract?

And it was answered :

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You are required to inform them of a change of address, so I guess the answer is yes !

Nothing to do with "do goodery" at all.

weehamster

SRB wrote:

Guys, a question was asked :

does moving a NI subscription to Great Britain without informing Sky break the terms of the contract?

And it was answered :

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You are required to inform them of a change of address, so I guess the answer is yes !

Nothing to do with "do goodery" at all.

Why do you have to tell them?

limerick_man

RTÉ is available throughout the EU!!! But its called RTÉ Europe, it is an actual channel that shows RTÉ programming to the EU, our taxes pay for it!

You should have no problem getting it just make sure to ask if the company u are getting tv from carrys the channel (not all services may)!

We have a holiday home in Spain and we have it down there, though i still wouldnt watch it!

Our man in Havana

How do digital spyer's react to the situation of BBC1 und 2 in the Irish epg?