We gave up Sky about two years ago. Since then, we have the handful of channels which you can still receive via the Sky box and dish, in addition to Netflix, for which we pay €11.99 p/m.
Via a combination of very good WiFi, an iPad and a Google dongle, we receive perfect Netflix and YouTube on our television through their apps.
Via exactly the same technical combination, we stream RTE television to our tv using their “app” at a quality level that could best be described as execrable.
Despite the fact the most people are viewing RTE via cable or free-view, and despite the fact that the bandwidth demands on streaming RTÉ would be minuscule compared with Netflix or YouTube, the streamed signal is unwatchable.
Is the RTÉ app a mere fig leaf which then allows them to demand I pay a licence fee because they meet some legal requirement in terms of being seen to provide a service?
I have no interest in Saorview. I don’t want yet another box and aerial. I would simply like it that RTÉ allow me to tune in their stations via my Sky box (which I can do for dozens of other channels) or they provide an app (rather than their current transition year project offering) on a par with the others I’ve mentioned which allows me to stream their service.
For this, I will happily pay for a licence. But, without either of these, I will pay no more.
D.
Via a combination of very good WiFi, an iPad and a Google dongle, we receive perfect Netflix and YouTube on our television through their apps.
Via exactly the same technical combination, we stream RTE television to our tv using their “app” at a quality level that could best be described as execrable.
Despite the fact the most people are viewing RTE via cable or free-view, and despite the fact that the bandwidth demands on streaming RTÉ would be minuscule compared with Netflix or YouTube, the streamed signal is unwatchable.
Is the RTÉ app a mere fig leaf which then allows them to demand I pay a licence fee because they meet some legal requirement in terms of being seen to provide a service?
I have no interest in Saorview. I don’t want yet another box and aerial. I would simply like it that RTÉ allow me to tune in their stations via my Sky box (which I can do for dozens of other channels) or they provide an app (rather than their current transition year project offering) on a par with the others I’ve mentioned which allows me to stream their service.
For this, I will happily pay for a licence. But, without either of these, I will pay no more.
D.