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TV

Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013 18:04
by Nigel and Karen
anyone tried one of these?

http://uktveverywhere.com/index.html

Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013 19:36
by Sue
http://www.filmon.com/#BBC-One





For the amount of channels it gives you, you may just as well download the above free!

Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2013 00:45
by Allan
Neatly packaged but expensive for what it provides.

There are many devices on the market like Roku, Boxee and Google Tv that can do similar things with Filmon or other services - they typically cost around £70-£80 with no subscription

A proxy or VPN service costing around €4 euros a month would allow greater access.

Having said that it looks a simple solution for the less technically competent - I guess it all depends how well it works and whether or not you have the 4mb connection speed they say you need.

Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2013 15:10
by montgolfiere
The problem for most living outsude the towns is the lack of internet speed... we are only on 2 mb and i dont know when we are likely to get any more here in the villages !!

Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2013 16:34
by Smiley G
Where we live, we are far enough away from the exchange to only get (tested today) 1.5 Mbps.
The only answer, as I see it, is for Montgolfiere to supply a new, optimum sized dish and matching LNB and possible a new set-top box. Once the further changes take place later this year, we shall have to see what happens.
If, as some people fear, we lose BBC and possibly other "fringe" channels, then English-speaking French residents may wish to get together to protest BBC & ITV in order to allow "iPlayers" to work from a French IP address.
I have read some horror stories about some VPNs totally screwing up computers, once downloaded. It's a little like having both McAfee and Norton on the same machine, everything is slowed right down.
Just as a footnote, anyone using a Mac (OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2) wouldn't be able to install a programme which is not approved by Apple.

Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2013 19:02
by montgolfiere
I have never heard any problems with www.iportal.me!!!!
at 5€ a month probably worth it...

I am also fairly hopeful that the next 'changes' will have a similar Signal as the Satellites are the same 'spec.'

Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2013 19:34
by Allan
Smiley G wrote:Where we live, we are far enough away from the exchange to only get (tested today) 1.5 Mbps.
The only answer, as I see it, is for Montgolfiere to supply a new, optimum sized dish and matching LNB and possible a new set-top box. Once the further changes take place later this year, we shall have to see what happens.
If, as some people fear, we lose BBC and possibly other "fringe" channels, then English-speaking French residents may wish to get together to protest BBC & ITV in order to allow "iPlayers" to work from a French IP address.
I have read some horror stories about some VPNs totally screwing up computers, once downloaded. It's a little like having both McAfee and Norton on the same machine, everything is slowed right down.
Just as a footnote, anyone using a Mac (OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2) wouldn't be able to install a programme which is not approved by Apple.
I think someone has been telling you fairy stories, VPN is a well established and safe technology and nothing at all like having McAfee and Norton on the same machine. If it really bothers you there are plenty of ways to connect to the UK that don't involve putting software on your computer.

Realistically TV via the Internet will never be as good as a satellite system but the 2 are not mutually exclusive.

I can think of no reason why a weaker satellite signal should entail a new set top box.

Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2013 19:43
by montgolfiere
there shouldn't be any need to change a Digibox.

Posted: Mon 07 Jan 2013 08:49
by Santiago
My reception via iPortal is better than my satellite.

The VPN does inhibit email under some settings and I did find that the DNS solution was a bit of a faff to uninstall but it's not dangerous.

It would be interesting if the BBC introduced a pay service overseas. I wonder if it is in their plans. I can't see why, in the future, we would not have a choice of internet-based suppliers of TV channels collated from all sorts of sources. It would not likely to be free of course.

Posted: Mon 07 Jan 2013 22:45
by Owens88
Santiago, you mean like a TV version of scoop.it? Excellent idea
Just need to work on the charging mechanism.

Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2013 12:44
by russell
Santiago wrote: It would be interesting if the BBC introduced a pay service overseas. I wonder if it is in their plans. I can't see why, in the future, we would not have a choice of internet-based suppliers of TV channels collated from all sorts of sources. It would not likely to be free of course.
They are restricted by copyright considerations. For the same reason Sky does not (officially) allow reception outside the UK.

Russell

Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2013 12:47
by montgolfiere
it is this copyright issue that has led them to try an reduce the satellite footprint and has led to the reduced signal from Astra2F

Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2013 12:48
by russell
Smiley G wrote: Just as a footnote, anyone using a Mac (OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2) wouldn't be able to install a programme which is not approved by Apple.
This is not true. You can even run most Windows programs directly under Wine. If you install Virtualbox you can even install any Windows (or Linux) operating system on a virtual computer emulated by the Mac OS.

Russell.