Watching UK TV When Outside The UK?

JamesBewley

Watching UK TV When Outside The UK on a computer? I want to able to watch Channel4 VOD Catch Up and Video On Demand online?

Whats the best way? a lot of the Websites I tried did not work it seems its going to cost £

I did a google search for "watching channel4 vod while outside the uk"

Thanks,


James

scotsbob

JamesBewley wrote: »

Watching UK TV When Outside The UK on a computer? I want to able to watch Channel4 VOD Catch Up and Video On Demand online?

Whats the best way? a lot of the Websites I tried did not work it seems its going to cost £

I did a google search for "watching channel4 vod while outside the uk"

Thanks,


James

Most of the websites like the BBC etc try to block you and stop you viewing unless you watch from within the UK. I think it all has to do with copyright.

I have sent you a PM to tell you how to view from abroad.

new_man

i would like too no too i go to spain most years

JamesBewley

new_man wrote: »

i would like too no too i go to spain most years

Hello,

Try Zattoo TV Free Program may work in Spain not a great selection of channels.


ukproxyserver
do t co do t u k this costs has a FreeTrial which I still have not managed to access and evaluate yet their "LiveChat OnLine Now" is a Scam no ones ever there I called there telephone lines UK & Spain during business hours no ones there just voicemail.

Payment by Paypal £10:00 UK Sterling a month they seem very dodgy to me.


James

jaydeeuk1

Don't ever pay for these proxy sites, easy enough to do it yourself for free.

elvch01

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Don't ever pay for these proxy sites, easy enough to do it yourself for free.

Agreed - if you are a bit of a techie (like I am). I have my own proxy server at home and use it to access BBC iPlayer content which is specifically blocked from non UK IP addresses. The bandwidtch isn't always enough to watch live, but I generally pick a few programs to download overight & watch them the following day

JamesBewley

elvch01 wrote: »

Agreed - if you are a bit of a techie (like I am). I have my own proxy server at home and use it to access BBC iPlayer content which is specifically blocked from non UK IP addresses. The bandwidtch isn't always enough to watch live, but I generally pick a few programs to download overight & watch them the following day

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Having your own Proxy Server Hardware Equipment at home sounds expensive and fairly technical to recently the UK TV Stations have been making it much more difficult
to connect to there services from overseas,By the way is it possible to watch Channel 4 Catch Up and 4OD services? from your Proxy?

James

jaydeeuk1

A proxy isn't neccessarily separate hardware - your own PC can be turned in to a free proxy server through software. To the provider, the content will appear to be downloading to your (uk based) proxy server (or my old desktop PC as I like to call it). All this does, is then forward this information on to your laptop whereever you are in the world. Will work with iplayer and 4od. The only limitation, as someone pointed out above, is the upload speed of your proxy server. You may have 8mb broadband at home, but the upload speed will be a fraction of that and might not be able to provide enough bandwidth to watch 'live' TV.