Visiting New Zealand? Perhaps simply living there and looking to watch RTE player in New Zealand whether to stay up with Irish culture or because there’s a certain show or movie on it that you want to watch.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to unblock RTE Player in New Zealand while also showing you that this method works for many other services too.
...But first, a little bit about why RTE Player is not available in New Zealand in the first place.
...For the same reason, you can’t watch other platforms such as BBC iPlayer, Hulu, DAZN, and many others.
See, when RTE pays for exclusive rights to show something in Ireland, it doesn’t automatically pay for the rights to that content in New Zealand, and the same applies to the like of UAE or the UK.
Due to how rights to content work where you need to pay extra to show something in more than one region, it does not make sense for RTE Player to be available outside of Ireland and in New Zealand.
Afterall, RTE is an Irish company targetting the Irish audience as a national provider.
As a result, RTE just doesn’t work in New Zealand.
Of course, technically, RTE does still make a lot of content that it owns.
That’s true, except, just like RTE pays for rights, it also sells rights for its content, meaning that sometimes it sells exclusive rights to the content it owns so it can’t show it in certain regions. That’s one of the reasons why it’s taking so long for Disney Plus to launch in the UK.
To start watching RTE Player in New Zealand in 2020, you will need to trick RTE Player into thinking that you are in Ireland.
That’s where being there virtually comes in.
You can make it look like you are in Ireland with your device.
As far as switching location virtually is concerned, that’s where a VPN comes in.
But that’s only 1 of the 2 steps for getting RTE Player working in New Zealand.
The VPN you use must obviously have an Irish server which most of the premium providers have, but more importantly, the server needs to work with RTE Player, which is not guaranteed right away.
Matter of fact, RTE Player is one of the least unblocked services on the market.
Most VPN services can unblock Netflix, but when it comes to services like RTE, this is where it gets hard.
PrivateVPN? Just like all services, we didn’t support RTE Player for a very long time.
...But going into 2020, we figured out a way to do it, and from now, you can watch RTE Player in New Zealand by simply turning the RTE server on.
Sign up for PrivateVPN, whether with our 7-day free trial that doesn’t even ask for a card to try it out, or whether you choose to get a long-term membership, download our app, connect to an RTE server, and just like that, RTE Player will work for you.
What do we all love? Quantity. We are naturally driven to more. And that makes having thousands of servers a great selling tactic.
At PrivateVPN, we focus on fewer servers, but instead, we make sure that the servers work with entertainment platforms. By focusing on fewer servers, we can install our own hardware and work directly with Tier 1 providers rather than hosting companies allowing for the best streaming experience.
That’s why we are the first service to provide a high-quality server for RTE Player, a service that offers the most Netflix regions, and constantly chosen as the best budget service and for customer support.
You can watch RTE Player from your web browser on pretty much all devices, but you might also want to get the RTE app on your phone for convenience, and probably want to know how you can watch RTE Player in New Zealand on a TV.
Of course, since Android devices are more open, you can just download the app from the internet, but make sure it’s from a trusted source.
...Or maybe don’t download the RTE app in New Zealand.
It’s apparently not that great according to reviews.
On Apple devices, this process works slightly differently.
You need to log out of your iCloud account, followed by creating one with your location set in Ireland.
...When you do that, you can then, of course, switch back to your New Zealand store location, and everything, including RTE Player, will still be there.
If you see that it’s possible to change the location of your current account, don’t do it. As yes, it’s possible, but you will lose everything if you do it.
The issue with RTE? It’s not really taken care of that well as far as the app is concerned.
That’s why there’s no proper Fire TV Stick app, meanwhile, platforms like Apple TV don’t really support VPN services.
That leaves just one option. To connect your laptop with RTE Player to your TV via an HDMI cable.
...Unless you have Android TV, which supports RTE and VPN services, but who does?
Almost all services are unblockable with a VPN that focuses on quality rather than quantity.
Yes, that means that whether you want to unblock DAZN or Hulu, or like in this instance, RTE Player, you can do it, with the help of guides like this.
Written by Michael Smolski.
Disclaimer: While PrivateVPN works with RTE Player, like any VPN service, it cannot guarantee that it will work with RTE at all given times. That’s due to the nature of RTE trying to prevent VPN services from working as it has to.