- RTÉ Player to include movies for the first time RTÉ Player is to include movies for the first time later this week, the national broadcaster announced in a tweet earlier this evening.
- RTÉ.ie is Ireland's largest online media property RTÉ.ie is Ireland's largest online media property serving 4.4 million monthly unique visitors, that's according to the recently published ABC Island of Ireland report.
- Countdown to Ireland's digital TV switchover begins In exactly 100 days Ireland's television network will no longer be broadcast in analogue form, instead replaced by digital, marking the most significant change in Ireland's broadcast history since the coming of colour television in 1969.
- RTÉ Player app for iPhone and iPad arrives in time for Christmas As promised by RTÉ's director of platform development Aisling McCabe at October's Dublin Web Summit, the RTÉ Player app for the iPhone and iPad has been released in time for Christmas. The universal iOS app made its way through Apple's App Store approval process last weekend, and was made available for free download as of this morning.
- RTÉ Player arriving on the iPhone and iPad before Christmas Aisling McCabe, director of platform development at RTÉ, took to the stage at the Dublin Web Summit this evening to announce RTÉ's plans to launch RTÉ Player iPhone and iPad app in the coming months. More specfically, before Christmas.
- Digital TV switchover in Ireland will happen one year from now Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 has been set as the official date of completion of the switchover to Digital TV in Ireland. On that date analogue TV signals across the island of Ireland will be no longer be broadcast.
- Watch Irish TV online for free with aertv A new online Irish TV service, aertv, launched yesterday, allowing viewers to watch 11 Irish and international channels in one place, directly within the browser. What's more, the service requires no registration and is absolutely free.
- Facebook joins Dublin Web Summit lineup With seven weeks to go until October's Dublin Web Summit, a major keynote speaker from Facebook has been announced; Ethan Beard. Ethan is one of eight speakers announced this week, with over 60 speakers planned for October's event.
- RTÉ Player coming to Android and iPhone later this year RTÉ will release Android and iOS versions of their popular video-on-demand RTÉ Player service later this year. According to Silicon Republic, Aisling McCabe, head of platform development at RTÉ, confirmed RTÉ’s plans to release free mobile apps for the two platforms late last week.
- Free live TV from Magnet WebTV available to stream on 99% of devices Live TV streaming service Magnet WebTV have recently extended the availability of their service to 99% of all devices. Launched in January of this year, Magnet WebTV have upgraded their streaming service to support HTML5 video, effectively enabling a plethora of new devices that don’t support traditional Adobe Flash video, including the Apple iPhone and iPad.