[vicsireland] Re: [vicsireland] Re: [vicsireland] Re: [vicsireland] RTÉ launches catch-up TV service
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:09:10 +0100
Hi mark,
Thanks for the link. Also for your clarification (in another email) of the
analogue TV switchoff dates.
In my email I reproduced the announcement from RTÉ news, and, tony, one
would have found the player (in the usual RTÉ way) by ambling around the RTÉ
site!
Now, personally, I haed disabled Flash in my JAWS personal verbosity
settings for the RTÉ page, so at first the player was a non-starter - no
visible Flash. I then enabled Flash (temporarily) in the JAWS options -
insert+v and down the dialogue, etc. I hope I wouldn't *have to* enable
Flash permanently on the RTÉ site, since it gets in the way of reading RTÉ
sports content with braille - you've just finished a line, and that line
comes back at you again; down-arrow, but that line comes back at you again;
bad! If you up and down arrow using speech you experience a similar effect.
Disabling Flash and a few other things solves most - but not all - of such
issues on the RTÉ site. You've also got to stop in-line frames and such.
Perhaps stop the page refreshing altogether, but i'd rather not go that far.
My point in all of this is to show that this is the antithesess of the
implementation of Flash in the RTÉ Catchup Player as it is presently
'constituted'. Could RTÉ not also provide a non-Flash alternative? Could
they not label more of the buttons - this is a common thing in flash,
numbered buttons. I was able to play "Corrigan City Farm" after I jumped
through the hoops I have outlined above. Also, the Flash content for each
of the programs was (or is read by JAWS) below the list of programmes
available. So you have to be a bit mathematical to work out which programme
you are on when you get to the Flash movies, the actual watchable shows. I
thought you were supposed to be able to download these shows? I may not
have been there long enough to get this feature if it is available. (If in
any way equal to the BBC, it ought to be. then the programme expires after
a limited time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Magennis" <Mark.magennis@xxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:46 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: [vicsireland] Re: [vicsireland] RTÉ launches
catch-up TV service
Tony,
To use the new RTÉ player, go to http://www.rte.ie/player/.
Can I ask everyone to try it and report on it's accessibility, good
and bad. I will take this information to RTÉ and work with them on
fixing any problems.
Mark
On 22 Apr 2009, at 00:32, Tony Sweeney wrote:
> Hi Flor,
>
> Thank you for bringing that to us on the list!
>
> Now, How can we access that?
>
> Do you have a handy link for us?
>
> Tony
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:39 PM
> Subject: [vicsireland] RTÉ launches catch-up TV service
>
>
>> RTÉ launches catch-up TV service
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> A new catch-up web TV service has been launched on RTÉ.ie. The
>> RTÉ player
>> gives Irish broadband users the opportunity to watch their
>> favourite RTÉ
>> television programmes for up to 21 days after broadcast. It was
>> developed
>> with a view to delivering a new and improved service to reflect
>> audience
>> needs and to offer viewers more choice in how they watch programmes.
>> More than 200 hours of programmes from all categories of the RTÉ
>> broadcast
>> schedule are available to view. News and sports fans can watch
>> all RTÉ's
>> news and current affairs output and get free access to RTÉ's top
>> sports
>> shows including The Sunday Game, Monday Night Soccer and OB
>> Sport. The
>> player is a beta release - it is the first version released outside
>> the
>> organisation that developed the software, for the purpose of
>> evaluation and
>> testing. Commenting on the launch, Executive Director of RTÉ
>> Publishing
>> Múirne Laffan said: 'This is an exciting new opportunity for Irish
>> viewers
>> to access their favourit
>> e programmes whenever they want. 'RTÉ player will enhance our
>> service to
>> existing and new RTÉ audiences, extending the availability of our
>> programmes
>> and addressing the challenge to consumers' viewing habits beyond
>> traditional
>> appointment to view. 'This is a significant enhancement to the
>> consumer
>> experience offered on RTÉ.ie and we expect a subsequent growth in
>> usage and
>> traffic, which will in turn offer commercial advertisers
>> opportunities to
>> reach audiences in new ways,' she added. RTÉ.ie has an average of
>> 55m page
>> impressions per month and 2.3m unique users.
>>
>>
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