Getting British TV on a laptop outside the UK

ladylouise62

There is I-Player Global which costs about 7 euros a month, and has access to lots of old content, unlike the standrad I-player, atlhough I suspect, not so much of the just-played stuff.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldwide/301111iplayer.html

mcfisco

I'm quite sure the BBC will clamp down on iplayer before long.
If it was them I'd make it available worldwide -BUT require everyone to pay a "licence fee" to use it - ie stick behind a paywall as it's referred to.

The problem with a lot of the programming is that they'll have sold territorial licences to a lot of overseas broadcasters
Those licences undoubtedly prevent the beeb selling content itself

scotsbob

Easiest way to connect up to British TV and receive iPlayer and ITV Player is to get a VPN (Virtual Private Network) subscription.

I use Witopia, just over £2 a month, well worth it and I use it quite a
lot. Witopia even gives you many choices of ip locations so you can even connect through a US location if you ever get the urge to watch American TV programmes through Hulu. Lastly they also have a few 256 bit encrypted ip connections included if you want to do online banking very securely if you ever need to use a public wi-fi at some time.

https://www.witopia.net/

bod1467

What about http://tvcatchup.com/ ? Does it work overseas?

victor2

bod1467 wrote: »

What about http://tvcatchup.com/ ? Does it work overseas?

Just tried it on a Canadian proxy and it didn't.
You'd also need pretty good bandwidth to stream over - and unlimited or high usage allowance.

buglawton

Theory is that BBC and/or it's content providers lose revenue if expats in odd corners of the world tap into iPlayer or Catchup TV. Catchup btw has apparently excellent defences against VPNs.

In fact, the programs those expats desire will never if ever be marketed conveniently and in a timely manner to where those expats live. It's the simple & lazy solution to just block everyone.

Pikeyp

If your friends buy a laptop with Windows 7 , then they might be able to use the Windows Media Centre to watch UK TV using the 'TunerFree MCE' add-in from here ...

http://www.milliesoft.co.uk/ ...

cit_k

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

I'm quite sure the BBC will clamp down on iplayer before long.
If it was them I'd make it available worldwide -BUT require everyone to pay a "licence fee" to use it - ie stick behind a paywall as it's referred to.

Its already clamped down on - if your not in the UK, it wont let you watch the content.

londonTiger

mcfisco wrote: »

The problem with a lot of the programming is that they'll have sold territorial licences to a lot of overseas broadcasters
Those licences undoubtedly prevent the beeb selling content itself

the beeb create most of their content, in fact im pretty sure they create all of their stuff. so they have full control over where it's broadcast.

mcfisco

the beeb create most of their content, in fact im pretty sure they create all of their stuff. so they have full control over where it's broadcast.

Indeed, but when they sell content to - say - TVE in Spain, there's usually a clause in the contract preventing them competing with TVE with the same content in the same area.
In fact it usually stipulates that they must put reasonable measures in place to prevent it being viewed.
Whether or not the latest rulings on the Premiership football in pubs will affect this is another matter I guess