Code for free SkySports, ESPN & SkyNews for three months on O2 iPhone

lufcgirl

How far behind do the channels run with the ITV, E4 website?

I tried E4 and it was completely different to whats on now, and ITV had the same people on, just a different section.

Shazzadouglas

lufcgirl wrote: »

How far behind do the channels run with the ITV, E4 website?

I tried E4 and it was completely different to whats on now, and ITV had the same people on, just a different section.

According to a website review....
Imagine a TV streaming service completely designed and optimised for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Imagine all the main UK TV channels, BBC 1, BBC2, Channel 4 etc available live in your hand on any wireless network. Well imagine no longer as iPhone TVcatchup.com has released a beta of their dedicated iPhone streaming service.

The service is simple to use, load up mobile Safari and visit http://iphone.tvcatchup.com the bad news for some readers is the service is only available in the UK.
iPhone users who reside outside of the UK trying to access the site will be informed they are “not authorized” to view the content. This isn’t anything special to this application as Plex (read our favourite Plex apps here) users have seen this sort of country specific access on content for a few years now.
Obviously the service is clearly still in beta so it isn’t fair to be too critical. Initial impressions though are very positive, both the audio and picture quality are stunning.
The streaming feed appears to be around 15-20 seconds behind the broadcast version which is particularly impressive given we are viewing the TV in a web browser.
I did encounter a few problems with buffering (especially on Channel 4 for some reason). The feed would play perfectly for a five or ten minutes and then began to cut out. This could be a mix of the popularity of such a great new service or something as simple as my device polling email resulting in reduced bandwidth.
I tried to access the service over GPRS and although it allowed me to connected and attempted to buffer the content I couldn’t get it to play. This comes as no big surprise due the bandwidth hungry as I didn’t even expect to even get to the loading stage.

mcmurphy

still getting 'the activation code provided is not valid please re-enter'. i thought all codes from 6pm last night were supposed to be ok.

brenmcc1

I signed up for this last night, works great!

Excellent quality
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scott10

Just signed up and got the 3 months free. Good stuff. Checked out the footie being shown on ESPN and the picture is pretty good. Can now watch all the action anywhere at home and in wifi areas.

herman2811

Far from happy....

Have subscribed to this, as confirmed in my account, but when I try to watch any channels, it simply states that I need to subscribe, and directs to the relevant page to do so..... which tells me that I've already subscribed!

Have tried countless times to phone them about this today... just keep getting the annoying hold music, and have as yet been unable to actually speak to anyone! Must have been on hold for up to 15 minutes on occasion before giving up!

Would be understandable if it was a freephone number, but it's an 0844 number - not cheap! (saynoto0844 doesn't help)

Any advice anyone? Don't think I'm alone with this problem.

oneandonlyboy

Everyone is our office has signed up for it without a problem. You sure you followed updated the page once you put in the code?

djrobmac

Even works pukka without wi-fi

M4RKM

|I've just had a text giving me an alternative code to use if i've had problems with the one they sent (which i did)

that new code worked fine, and i'm now streaming.... if you're having problems, and already got a code that doesn't work, i'm sure you'll get a code that does work right via text quite soon

M

debbles

herman2811 wrote: »

Far from happy....

Have subscribed to this, as confirmed in my account, but when I try to watch any channels, it simply states that I need to subscribe, and directs to the relevant page to do so..... which tells me that I've already subscribed!

Have tried countless times to phone them about this today... just keep getting the annoying hold music, and have as yet been unable to actually speak to anyone! Must have been on hold for up to 15 minutes on occasion before giving up!

Would be understandable if it was a freephone number, but it's an 0844 number - not cheap! (saynoto0844 doesn't help)

Any advice anyone? Don't think I'm alone with this problem.

i having the same problem, ive registered got the 3 free months and every time i try to watch one of the channels it tells me to subscribe when i already have, the sky page tells me i have an active account dont know whats wrong