Eir TV

Phone eir on 1901 and ask for their loyalty dept. Do your research on competitor offerings, so that you can show them you know the cost of the alternatives. If you state that you are happy to commit to another 12 months, I find eir willing to renew discounts. I have renewed for several years and they always give me TV for €9.99pm, including free Amazon Prime Video, and mobile Sim-only unlimited 5G for €9.99pm. This brings the cost of the total bundle to €50.97, including TV & Mobile. This is very competitive, given that their basic broadband offering for new customers, without TV or mobile is €34.99pm. However, you need to make the call - preferably 30 days before the end of your contract - you can't renew these discounts online. They do have "cost-of-living" increases that kick in every April - but if you time your renewal right, you can minimize their impact - and most of the other providers have them too.

Eir have just added Great tv, Great movies & Great romance channels. A welcome addition to the epg.

I've actually found the Eir TV platform pretty good. It's fast, responsive, and the Apple TV hardware is far better than VM or Sky, but there are a few issues.

1. Lineup of channels isn't good enough. They really need the Sky content that Virgin has for it to be a genuine like-for-like cable replacement. Subscribing to NOW TV isn't really a decent replacement either, that app is a hot mess. Trying to find anything is really annoying, especially just to watch live TV.
2. The lack of a numeric keypad is somewhat annoying. Yes, you can surf through the channels, but it does seem a bit like Apple never really saw this as being a direct replacement for a cable tv box. I wonder though if they could just make a bluetooth remote with numeric keypad, and have an app that supports it. I would assume it's the same app Free, Salt and others are using with AppleTV.
3. Once in a while the Eir TV app seems to just randomly close. I don't know if it's due to lack of remote control activity, or if it's just a glitch, but it does seem to happen every once in a while - it's not so frequent that it's a major issue, but nonetheless it happens more than I've experienced with any other AppleTV app.
4. They should properly integrate the app into AppleTV. Plenty of others are like Arte, Disney+ etc. That being said, so should RTE, TG4, VMTV and the other channels with players. When it's integrated properly it's EXTREMELY slick. You get actual previews of those apps' content in the Apple TV+ app.

Yeah, I really don't know what the point of Eurosport UHD is if it's just a holding page all day. I've never seen anything on that that channel ever.

One other thing I think they could do if they want to push out their market a bit is add just a small selection of some continental TV. There's a big audience for it and I'm sure there is probably plenty available in at least HD if not UHD at no or very little cost to carry. It was something the predecessors of Virgin used to do a much better job of.

Sky and Virgin are very 'British view of the world' type line ups.

In general they should be just pushing a comprehensive TV package that knocks it out of the park a bit more than they do. There's no point in it being a really nice piece of kit and then just having a rather lack lustre line up on their own app.

It has huge potential to really compete with Virgin Media, but it's not trying hard enough with the lineup.

If you compare it with what Free in France offer on the same platform…

https://www.free.fr/freebox/apple-tv-4K/

It's carrying 580 channels!!

Agree 100% and anyway TV5Monde isn't an exemplar for European TV. The EU should mandate that all national broadcasters main FTV channels are available in each EU country, it's a fantastic opportunity for kids learning the languages in school and it's a lot of the reason that TG4 exists, I regularly watch ZDF, TF1 and NPO, you'd be amazed how much it can help a language seep into the consciousness.

You'd get way more from it than some of the stuff at the periphery of EPG.

Anyone know how to pair the Eir remote to the apple tv, have a few remotes and don't know what's what so just want to re-pair them.

Yes - you can get multiroom without any additional monthly fee by buying additional Apple TV boxes and downloading the eir TV app. Eir actually sell new and rexonditioned Apple TV boxes on their eir Store website. The reconditioned units are particularly good value at €59

Cheers. I did that as suggested. Was obviously an old eir one, same remote etc… thx

There is no multiroom with Eir - you can just use additional Apple TV devices in your home as you have done. The devices don't need to come from Eir.

In terms of getting logged out, I have only occasionally seen this (once per box over recent months?). Suspected it was just due to some application update or something. You shouldn't really be seeing this regularly.

I'm having trouble getting the apple tv box to work right. Under "TV provider" it keeps saying the email/pass is wrong even though it 100% isn't. On the app itself I can't watch anything, everything says "channel unavailable, due to content restrictions this content is unavailable in your current location"

Does the app have to work off eir broadband to "verify"? Broadband hasn't been installed yet so just using the old Sky connection atm

The app connects to a specific private server within Eir's network. It doesn't stream over the public internet, so you won't get it at all unless you're on Eir broadband.

The hardware is just an Apple TV box though, so all other apps, and Apple services will work totally normally on any broadband service, you just can't use EirTV itself.

Sorry to keep posting on this thread! It seems that eir only verify whether the Apple box is on an eir network or not and then the streams work. I got a SIMO from eir and when I connect the Apple box to it via hotspot the TV app works perfectly! Still not sure why the Android app works on my tablet with Sky WiFi but won't complain since my eir bb appointment keeps getting pushed back!

Yes, and a hotspot from an eir sim card will also work for the Apple tv box