RTE want to close Aertel

I check the aertel more than I watch RTE, no joke.

Do you need an approved box for Aertel?
Used to be dead handy for results.

i think you need an approved Saorview box to get it? teletext, or whatever the old technology was called, was done away with when they went digital

beejee wrote: »

I check the aertel more than I watch RTE, no joke.

I genuinely do this too,
It's on the app/site for those wondering.

punisher5112 wrote: »

The early 90s called their looking for aertel

Was it on a Nokia 6210i?

touts wrote: »

How the **** do you get Aertel? 20 years ago there was a button on the remote. Now I've a smart TV and can get everything except Aertel.

Any TV including smart TV I've purchased still has a text button on the remote control and provided you have an aerial connected it should load the MHEG version of Aertel.

How on earth does it cost a six figure sum to operate yearly? Seriously?

Switch it off. Users will adapt in about 1 week

whisky_galore wrote: »

How on earth does it cost a six figure sum to operate yearly? Seriously?

2 staff would cost that

Gonad wrote: »

Aertel is still a thing ?

Anyone remember the quiz on the bbc one ? Think it was called bumblebee or something along those lines

Channel 4?

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Digital services without broadband.

On the cost there is presumably people or one well paid one employed to update it.

You can get the bloody thing on your phone.

Be cheaper to give everyone broadband in the end...

colm_mcm wrote: »

2 staff would cost that

Do they have access to the VIP suites with solid gold toilet bowls and wipe themselves with Andrex puppies?

It’s prob there just to placate those senior people in society who maybe the internet never entered their lives and a couple of clicks of the remote can give them the football results, news, weather, lotto, racing etc... I doubt it will be there beyond the next seven or eight years as basically the generation who ‘need’ it will be dying out.

road_high wrote: »

I thought Aertel ended nearly 20 years ago? Wasn’t that the thing pre internet

You can access the site online too.

fritzelly wrote: »

Slap my ass and call me Sally - I thought that was abandoned years ago, maybe I'm thinking of the UK channels
So many years ago last time I used teletext or rather decades ago - now I just ask Google and get the result in seconds. Who is still using this that doesn't have a smartphone or computer???

hey Sally

Also don't RTE own the transmission infrastructure in Ireland so they are paying themselves to broadcast it
Are they playing a blinder here by bleeding licence fee money to their corporate arm?

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Not everybody embraces technology at the same rate. I got my first smartphone within the last year (well, 11 months ago actually), even though I got my first e-mail account in 1991.

Well sorry but the world has moved on and you can't continue to spend millions because a few people don't want to adapt - same goes with the LW radio
Everyone had to go DTT - I don't remember a big outcrying from people. Another wasted opportunity - why could they not get an agreement in place for some UK channels or even some more Irish based providers? Well simple really they want to charge a fortune for giving you the privilege of being on the service. We were heralded with these promises of more channels - years later nothing has changed from having an aerial or getting the same channels through what is now VM or eir etc Uk has some 70 odd freeview channels - admittedly a lot of crap but there is a great choice

That's not to say RTE have any idea what adapting means. Maintaining the LW service for example for people who don't even pay the licence fee - tell me in what reality that makes sense? It's not small money that it costs either!

Spent a small fortune on their player which doesn't work but requires you to watch about 20 ads to watch the whole program if you are lucky to even get past the ads but are trying to convince the government they need more money to become a more online/digital service - if they can't get a simple player to work what chance do they have of even using more money to become a so called digital service

RTÉ being the ‘state’ broadcaster....I’d imagine if it was to be shutdown tomorrow you’d have the phone system on Joe Duffy almost on fire there....

“Joe, it’s all very well there up in Dublin with your broadhand Internet and the rest of it but aertel is of great comfort to us and a source of the news and everything without worrying about your wihi and all the rest of it.”

Always check aertel, then plug in the Main Frame( direct phone internet, separate line) and see if it's there before I head to the Post Office to be certain.