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All core functionality, I cannot understand how the developer’s services are retained after consistent failure to deliver a viable product to meet what should have been basic contract provisions. Listen to live and on-demand radio from all RTÉ radio services: RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ lyric fm, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and the RTÉ Digital Radio stations. Huge battery drain, ads audio plays in background while show is streaming, app has no effective tracking of how much of an episode you have watched or where you might be in a series, it frequently clears the list of programmes you have marked as favourite, often crashes, has poor rewind/fast forward capabilities. However the performance is significantly worse than that virgin iteration of the app.

#Rte player app skin#

Possibly the worst media player available, RTÉ moved from a sometimes glitchy player to a branded skin over the previous (hugely complained about) TV3/Virgin player. The app will automatically adjust video quality based on the speed of your WiFi connection.Īwful, write to RTÉ & TDs to complain of waste of licence fee The RTÉ Player App uses streaming technology which means that you must be connected to the Internet in order to watch programmes. We are continually looking to clear rights and add new programmes. While most RTÉ Player content can be accessed through the app, some programmes may not be available due to rights restrictions. The RTÉ Player App supports AirPlay so you can watch programmes on the big screen using Apple TV. Unleash the power of your tablet or 2-in-1 device with apps optimized for them. You can save programmes as a favourite and pick up on a programme where you last viewed. Scroll, draw, and tap with your fingers or pen. You can browse programmes by name, category, date or latest. Social sharing features allow you to share programmes via email, Facebook and Twitter.

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You can watch selected programmes live from RTÉ One, RTÉ 2 and RTÉ News Now plus catch up on a wide selection of programmes broadcast on RTÉ Television for up to 21 days after transmission. The number of streams so far in 2016 is up 33 per cent on the same period in 2015.Watch the best of programmes broadcast on RTÉ Television with the RTÉ Player App. RTÉ Player, launched in 2009, has an average of 1.8 million unique users a month and 4.4 million streams per month. Versions of the RTÉ Player are already on Samsung smart TVs and Microsoft’s Xbox platform, as well as the services of pay-TV platforms Virgin Media, Eir and Vodafone, while there have been more than 2.2 million downloads of the RTÉ Player app to date. The decision to join Sky’s mobile apps is likely to further boost usage of the RTÉ Player, which has also just launched on smart television sets manufactured by LG. Mobile usage is a key source of growth, Ms McCabe said. Mobile and tablet devices currently account for 55 per cent of the traffic to the RTÉ Player. Our strategy is to be where our audience wants to be.” “On-the-go services are part of what television operators are offering now, and there is big demand for it. “The landscape is changing,” said Aisling McCabe, RTÉ’s director of strategic platforms and partnerships. RTÉ Player joins TV3’s 3Player and the UTV Player on Sky’s on-the-go services. This deal has already led to the addition of the RTÉ One +1, RTÉ One HD and RTÉ News Now channels to Sky’s set-top boxes, with the RTÉ Player becoming available via its set-top boxes in July.

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RTÉ Player was initially absent from Sky’s range of catch-up services when they launched in January 2014, but a partnership agreement with Sky, the biggest pay-TV company in Ireland, was signed last September after a series of negotiations.

Its programmes can now be accessed through the Sky Go and Sky Q apps on mobiles, tablets and laptops. RTÉ’s on-demand service RTÉ Player will be available to viewers through Sky’s mobile apps from today as part of a deal between the two rival broadcasters.