Set parental pins to protect your children from shows aimed at a Mature Audience (MA) Live restart - A great new feature that allows you to rewind back to the goal and rewatch the celebrations. Two new exclusive channels streaming RTÉ Archives and RTÉ Food Your kids can now enjoy fun shows in a safe space Watch RTÉ One, RTÉ2 and RTÉ News Now live wherever and whenever you want RTÉ Player Originals are our brand new shorts, ranging on average from 3-12 minutes, these little gems are perfect for watching on your mobile, on your lunchbreak or before bed. From the 20 greatest moments from Love/Hate to those magical moments where Dermot Bannon turns people’s houses into dream homes in Room to Improve. Stuck in commuter traffic, discover our playlists and relive the best bits of your favourite shows.
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Explore Box Sets, RTÉ Player Originals and all your RTÉ TV favourites on the fully reloaded RTÉ Player app for Android I hope this is not a preview of things to come.Your destination for great TV and Video – Live and on-demandĭiscover something great to watch every time you use RTÉ Player. When I tried the new RTE Player on my laptop, however, I was led to a totally black screen.
The updated app on my iPhone seems to be working well enough. Seeing oldies like Love/Hate, Bachelors Walk, Trivia and Lisa Derry Girls Magee’s RAW sharing digital shelf space with guff like Striking Out, Bridget & Eamon, Acceptable Risk and the underwhelming Taken Down is a reminder of just how good RTE drama and comedy sometimes could be in the past, and how unforgivably dire the majority of it is these days.īut the make-or-break issue with any online player is functionality. Mind you, flicking through the list left me feeling a little wistful. The bugbear remains the same: those interminable, unskippable ads.įor anyone over 34, the most interesting new feature is probably the relatively small but eclectic box-set collection - a mixture of dramas, comedies, documentaries and lifestyle shows (old and new), home-produced and imported.
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There are other improvements, such as being able to cast to a smart TV - although it’s not possible to download content to watch offline when you’re on the go.
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This kind of content will only increase, although whether RTE will follow the lead of the BBC, Channel 4 and even rival Virgin Media of making a full drama series available on its online player immediately after the broadcast of the first episode (which is what happened with Virgin Media’s Blood) remains unclear. They’re more likely to watch bite-sized content rather than an hour-long drama or a half-hour comedy, so the new player responds to this demand with original online-only content like The Doireann Project, a sketch show with episodes lasting just 12 minutes - perfect for a short bus trip and a short attention span. It’s smoother to navigate, the content is better organised and easier to find, and there’s a lot more of it to find. The graphic design is sleek, clean, modern and much more pleasing to the eye.
Needless to say, the ads played perfectly.īut the real question about the new version is not how long it took to develop or even how much it cost, but whether it’s any good. The sound was flawless pity there was no picture to go with it. Personally speaking, one of the most annoying recent experiences was trying to watch a live World Cup match on the Player’s phone app while sitting in a parked car. The buffering and freezing and fuzzy picture, even when watching on a laptop with a high-speed Wi-Fi connection the random jumps back to the beginning of a programme, which of course meant having to endure the adverts all over again. The frustrations were manifold and maddening.
To be brutally honest, the old RTE Player (see, I’ve started doing it already) could sometimes be, to put it as mildly as I possibly can, a pile of crap. Still, the news will be greeted with tentative optimism by anyone who’s ever used what I suppose we’ll soon be calling “the old RTE Player” - an experience, as most of us can testify, that wasn’t always pleasant. That’s a year more than it took to make Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which is on RTE1 on Christmas Day, by the way). And all it’s taken is three years of development. By now, it should be available on all the applicable devices. The beta version of the player’s latest iteration went online last week. Version of the RTE Player is finally here. The wait - assuming you were waiting, rather than just getting on with your life, which would have been the sensible thing to do - is over.
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