RTE Planning RTE iPlayer

Elmo · 01-10-2008 05:34PM #1

I am just thinking now that iPlayer is a very generic name for a service, put i infront of a word and you have a new product.

iRTE?

Anyway it is planned for the 1st quarter of next year.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11535/digital-life/rt-is-planning-its-own-version-of-iplayer-for-catch-up-tv-revolution

Mossy Monk · 01-10-2008 05:44PM

Good stuff.

byte · 01-10-2008 08:34PM

Excellent news.

Fat_Fingers · 02-10-2008 09:37AM

excellent news

Charles Slane · 02-10-2008 10:00AM

I use the BBC iPlayer for catching up on BBC radio and it's driving me mad. Constantly crashing both Firefox and IE. The old service was much better. It was simpler but it worked all the time.

Hopefully RTE will find some reliable software to use...

bk · 02-10-2008 10:07AM

Charles Slane wrote: »

Hopefully RTE will find some reliable software to use...

And preferably not windows only.

It needs to support mac, linux and iphone also.

Fat_Fingers · 02-10-2008 10:56AM

mac, linux and iphone? i think that is a wishful thinking

STB · 02-10-2008 11:14AM

Speaking of which, do not istall the C4 VOD software!

Its P2P, and drives your broadband haywire as you get sucked to death.

Elmo · 02-10-2008 12:23PM

Does anyone know if the 40gb broadband service from UPC is available to residental customers? Kind of OTT but it would be good the have a good Broadband speed when looking at audio and vision on the web.

Illkillya · 02-10-2008 12:26PM

I know RTE need something like this, but look how much money BBC spent on developing their own system, I'm worried that the typical Irish approach will apply and they will waste a huge amount of time and money reinventing the wheel, but ending up with something that works in Windows IE7 only.

Myxomatosis · 02-10-2008 01:57PM

Hopefully they have the infrastructure to support this.

I tried to what a live match on the RTE website a while back and it was terrible. Obviously the server was getting hammered and simply didn't have the bandwidth to meet the demand.

Fat_Fingers · 02-10-2008 03:21PM

Elmo wrote: »

Does anyone know if the 40gb broadband service from UPC is available to residental customers? Kind of OTT but it would be good the have a good Broadband speed when looking at audio and vision on the web.

Don't know, but it will probably be limited with "contention ratio" and "Fair usage policy applies"

bk · 02-10-2008 05:22PM

Elmo wrote: »

Does anyone know if the 40gb broadband service from UPC is available to residental customers?

UPC don't have a "40gb" service, they have a 20mb/s service for €40 per month, that is probably what you mean and yes, it is available to residential customers.

However it isn't available everywhere yet, you can enter your details on their site and it will tell you if it is available.

ageary08 · 02-10-2008 05:25PM

I hope they dont try and do it through real player, they must be the only website on the internet who still uses that crap, I can still remember all the accusations that real used spyware in there stuff, and I believe it.

All we need now are some ISPs with a decent bandwidth cap.

Elmo · 02-10-2008 05:27PM

UPC don't have a "40gb" service, they have a 20mb/s service for €40 per month, that is probably what you mean and yes, it is available to residential customers.

However it isn't available everywhere yet, you can enter your details on their site and it will tell you if it is available.

I am sure I mean a 40mb/s service, at least I will check out I was reading later.

I was told that I could get their phone service on their website, only to be told on the Phone I could not get their phone service. I have broadband with them.

I hope they dont try and do it through real player, they must be the only website on the internet who still uses that crap, I can still remember all the accusations that real used spyware in there stuff, and I believe it.

I would think that RTE would buy the rights to the BBC's iPlayer and rebranded as RTE iPlayer. It would save money to buy in product already tried and tested. IMO

Mossy Monk · 02-10-2008 08:58PM

ageary08 wrote: »

All we need now are some ISPs with a decent bandwidth cap.

Already sorted. But in all fairness caps should be made illegal.

watty · 02-10-2008 10:47PM

Or else charge by usage?

Offer both options?

If people used de interweb universally instead of TV (1000 to 100,000 times less efficent than broadcast) for TV the Internet would be x10 to x1000 more expensive to still work. It wasn't designed for 24x7 video

watty · 02-10-2008 10:49PM

ageary08 wrote: »

I hope they dont try and do it through real player, they must be the only website on the internet who still uses that crap, I can still remember all the accusations that real used spyware in there stuff, and I believe it.

All we need now are some ISPs with a decent bandwidth cap.

My phone only does realplayer and the MS rubbish on my linux based media box for Web Tv is
geo-limited.

It's trivial to use Real without "spyware". Also on PC you can use "real Alternative"
Quicktime, Flash, Silverlight, WMA etc are no holier.

ageary08 · 02-10-2008 11:35PM

watty wrote: »

My phone only does realplayer and the MS rubbish on my linux based media box for Web Tv is
geo-limited.

It's trivial to use Real without "spyware". Also on PC you can use "real Alternative"
Quicktime, Flash, Silverlight, WMA etc are no holier.

Any computer at work only has flash and ie, it was the same at college beforehand. I dont see why they cant use flash like everybody else, it is on most common platforms and anybody stuck on a computer without admin rights probably already has it.

bk · 03-10-2008 01:24AM

Elmo wrote: »

I am sure I mean a 40mb/s service, at least I will check out I was reading later.

UPC speeds and pricing here, no 40mb/s product, 20mb/s is the highest:

http://www.upc.ie/internet/

Unless they have some business product or are about to upgrade again!!

barnicles · 04-10-2008 10:27AM

Great news

Podge2k7 · 04-10-2008 10:30AM

Great news...

Dman001 · 05-10-2008 07:03PM

Does this mean that they will only have RTE made shows or will they have imported shows too.

Elmo · 05-10-2008 07:06PM

Does this mean that they will only have RTE made shows or will they have imported shows too.

Depends on rights I guess. They will prob have all shows for the republic but not for the rest of the world and most Irish shows available internationally.

barnicles · 15-10-2008 07:49PM

Why is this in terrestrial?

Elmo · 16-10-2008 10:34AM

I put it in terrestrial as RTE is a terrestrial TV channel. But it should possible be in Broadcasting ? or more so Broadband?

bk · 16-10-2008 11:29AM

Elmo wrote: »

I put it in terrestrial as RTE is a terrestrial TV channel. But it should possible be in Broadcasting ? or more so Broadband?

Frankly I think this thread is equally relevant in any of these forums. I think a lot of people here on this forum are very interested in this.

barnicles · 23-11-2008 01:35PM

Any more news on this?

Big Tone · 24-11-2008 10:29PM

Interesting article in yesterdays Sunday Times suggesting people are getting their TV on computer/broadband and watching programmes on projectors/monitors and are now getting rid of TVs so therefore dont have to pay a TV licence. BBC are said to have shot themselves in the foot with their iPlayer as it could mean serious loss of licence fee revenue.

I'd say RTE will be watching this one with much interest but more and more people here will start chucking their TVs and hooking up their PCs to projectors etc!

Elmo · 25-11-2008 12:03AM

Big Tone wrote: »

Interesting article in yesterdays Sunday Times suggesting people are getting their TV on computer/broadband and watching programmes on projectors/monitors and are now getting rid of TVs so therefore dont have to pay a TV licence. BBC are said to have shot themselves in the foot with their iPlayer as it could mean serious loss of licence fee revenue.

I'd say RTE will be watching this one with much interest but more and more people here will start chucking their TVs and hooking up their PCs to projectors etc!

Is the quality that good on the iPlayer to get rid of your TV?

rlogue · 27-11-2008 07:21PM

The iPlayer quality is OK considering it's delivered via the web. But it's nowhere near as good quality as DVB-S2 HD video, or even ITV 1 on Sky.

RTE Planning RTE iPlayer

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