watch freeview channels on pc

deebee

http://www.tvcatchup.com/

this is a cool site which lets you watch most freeview channels on your pc - i find it really good - doesn't have the shopping channels though lol

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The_One_2

I bought a USB Freeview tuner last year from Amazon.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/usb-tv/s/qid=1239403308/ref=sr_nr_i_0?ie=UTF8&rs=&keywords=usb%20tv&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ausb%20tv%2Ci%3Aelectronics

The August one at £17, appears to currently be the bestselling one.
Check your postcode on the freeview.co.uk website before buying, to see what channels you'll be able to get

I've been able to get pretty much all the channels including Sky 3 and Virgin 1

Absolutely amazing bit of kit when im travelling around

rich_shot2003

deebee wrote: »

http://www.tvcatchup.com/

this is a cool site which lets you watch most freeview channels on your pc - i find it really good - doesn't have the shopping channels though lol

:j:easter::easter_ba:kisses::smileyhea

I found this site sometime last year and love it.

The site gets better and better.

ebsay2000

No download needed!

Just create a username and password.

18 channels to watch!

www.tvcatchup.com

ebsay2000

The Site Is Perfectly Legal Under Current UK broadcasting laws, one of the reasons they withdrew the service last year, was due to the service being used outside of the UK.

They now use a variety of location-based filtering to prevent users from using the site outside of the UK (I've been a beta user for many months).

They also USED to allow you to record, this was also against the rebroadcasting rights under which they operate, so recording is no longer available. A desktop application is under development which will allow recording to the end users hard disk rather than to TVC's remote servers (as previously).

Great service, fantastic bunch of guys running it, and for Flash video, the quality is amazing for the bandwidth it consumes....... But watch your data usage - it seems to be streaming at about 750kbps which is about 300MB an hour.

Some people using Orange Broadband have reported difficulties accessing the service..........and sometimes Virgin.

totalsolutions

Seems very nice. Thanks for that ebsay2000

MercilessKiller

Signed up.

Thanks very much. Looks good. Hope it really is legal though as a lot of them claim to be but really have no clue! haha.

Note that you should have a tv license when watching these streams mind.

MercilessKiller

Quality seems a lot like iplayer, though going full screen looks awful on a none widescreen monitor...

worried_jim

cheers mate !

Unknown_Paul

Wow, I didn't know that there was anything like this around that was legal. I will have to check it out, cheers

Crabman

MercilessKiller wrote: »

Quality seems a lot like iplayer, though going full screen looks awful on a none widescreen monitor...

I think the quality is far superior to that of the BBC iPlayer.

It's even more amazing when you look at how much more bandwidth the iPlayer uses. I have a 22" widescreen and on fullscreen I can't really tell the difference between that and real TV.

It makes you wonder why the BBC needed to waste so much licence payers' cash when the above website peeps have achieved so much more on their own.