Programmes will be available for 21 days after broadcast on the system, so you can “see what you’re missing”, as the blurb goes.

Of course, you probably won’t be watching some of RTE’s bought in programmes, for copyright reasons, and it sounds like, thanks to cutbacks at the national broadcaster, there’ll be a lot more bought in programmes, and a lot less indigenous material.

Still, this is a great development, and it should catch on, much like BBC’s iPlayer, which sadly, is not available here, again, for copyright reasons.

Check it out at http://www.rte.ie/player/