

Viewers will be able to access favourites such as Fair City, Home and Away, Saturday Night with Miriam, Fr. The agreement between Samsung and RTÉ will allow Samsung Smart TV users to access a selection of RTÉ’s flagship programmes, via the RTÉ Player App which is available on Samsung Smart TVs, from June. UK Ireland Ltd and RTÉ Digital today announced that Samsung will be the first TV brand to offer the RTÉ Player App, Ireland’s leading catch up TV service*, on the big screen as part of its Smart TV offering. You can download the application for free from the iTunes AppStore here.Samsung Electronics Co. RTE will send you the best quality based on your connection, so if you don’t have fast WiFi or your data plan is slow, you may experience a rather grainy, compressed video image. While they do recommend that you view the programs on a WiFi connection, you can disable the setting so that you can watch it over 3G. Looking at programs on your phone can be a bit of a strain, plus it will also run down your batter pretty quickly. We tried out the app, on both devices, and we think that the iPad is a great way to watch RTE. Preview of the RTE Player App RTE Player on the iPhone RTE Player on the iPad There is a slight delay from what’s shown on TV and what you’ll see on the iPad / iPhone, but it’s not significant, maybe there is 1 second gap between them. RTE One, RTE Two & RTE News Now can be watched from the comfort of your iPad. All of the available programs are available for viewing up to three weeks after initial broadcast (news broadcasts are generally available for 1 week).Ī further aspect to the app, like the web version, is that you can view the live programming.


For international customers you will be able to see their own in house broadcasting like the LateLate show and the news. The selection seems to be the same as what’s on the RTE Player website version, and includes a lot of the current programming. It’s free to download, and will work with both your iPad and your iPhone. As we mentioned before about the impending release of the RTÉ Player for iPad, we thought we would give an update to let you know it’s now live in the iTunes AppStore.
