It's far from fine. It's dreadful. Slow, buggy, slow, frequent crashes, slow, unintuitive interface. And did I mention it's slow?The app itself is fine but some people have issues with the quality of the stream and the number of ads.
It has nothing to do with the RTE app. Your TV is a device capable of receiving a TV signal so you must pay a licence.
It's actually built on a very mature streaming platform. The only thing I find annoying about it are the multiple ads. I have it running on an Android phone, Fire tablet and a modern LG TV (two years old). I have good quality broadband and don't have an issue with streaming. The app itself is designed to run on many platforms (which means most people have access to it) and it's simple and straightforward to use.It's far from fine. It's dreadful. Slow, buggy, slow, frequent crashes, slow, unintuitive interface. And did I mention it's slow?
That's my experience of the Android version. The version for my 2017 vintage LG Smart TV just doesn't work anymore and is unsupported.
There may have been but the OP has a TV capable of receiving a TV signal and is also using a Sky box to do so.Wasnt there mention of updating the law, so as to compel those watching on a monitor, mobile phone etc. to have to pay the licence fee, and not just those with a tuner in their TV, or Saoirview box?
I agree with you Mr Earl,
The quality of programmes has dis-improved very much so in recent years and yes if they stopped paying silly money to the chosen few, who do not deserve such money, they might be able to buy some decent programmes..
hen RTE's idea of public service broadcasting amounts to Eastenders, Dancing with Stars or whatever it is very difficult to defend them.
I hate those programs, but with the ratings numbers they get. it's hard to argue that RTE aren't giving the people what they want. In the 5 day Christmas period, there were 95,000 streams of Eastenders on the app alone!
Wasnt there mention of updating the law, so as to compel those watching on a monitor, mobile phone etc. to have to pay the licence fee, and not just those with a tuner in their TV, or Saoirview box?
It's actually built on a very mature streaming platform. The only thing I find annoying about it are the multiple ads. I have it running on an Android phone, Fire tablet and a modern LG TV (two years old). I have good quality broadband and don't have an issue with streaming. The app itself is designed to run on many platforms (which means most people have access to it) and it's simple and straightforward to use.
May parents have a very old Samsung TV (one of the first smart tvs) and I managed to get the app working on it. It's more a reflection on LG than RTE.
There may have been but the OP has a TV capable of receiving a TV signal and is also using a Sky box to do so.
He had also inspected one of my neighbours who has a satellite dish, decoder and large monitor but does require a licence.
This setup does require a TV licence. See below from https://www.citizensinformation.ie :-
"If you have a TV, or equipment capable of receiving a television signal (using an aerial, satellite dish, cable or other means), you must have a TV licence. "
Right, let's see what's in some of those genres then. Sport, for example. Surely that's an open goal. Must be thousands of matches of all sorts available, not to mention sports documentaries and news roundups from Gaa, rugby, soccer and many others. The hardest bit, you'd think, would be wading through the huge selection to find the one you want. But never fear, RTE has solved that problem for you! The sport genre has, count 'em, FIVE programmes available to watch. Yes, five whole programmes. One Laochra Gael, a cycling program, a showjumping event, a documentary about a young lad who meets Davy Fitzgerald and something called Zozimus. Zozimus? No, I don't know either and I didn't really feel like investing 90 seconds hoping it might load.That's not true. There are hundreds of programmes from all types of genre available here and a lot of them are home produced - https://www.rte.ie/player/all-programmes/a-z
However, it'd probably be easier to introduce now considering how we've conditioned in to being mindlessly compliant with state laws for the last year.
Nah, it's only an insult to licence payers, you can't insult free-loaders.Need I go on? This drivel is an insult to viewers and licence payers.
1. In the UK they can charge a household the TV licence for merely streaming their broadcasts, no matter what type of device is used. Whereas here you only get charged when you have a TV set in the household.
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