Freeview via WiFi on a smart TV??

[Deleted User]

I bought this last year from Amazon US:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C37AZXK/ref=pe_385040_30332200_TE_item

When it was only $7 (£5 including shipping) and I watch Freeview on my laptop in HD, even with the rubbish antenna included.

almillar

datlex - It is accurate. I'm talking about Freeview http://www.freeview.co.uk/ - that's free, digital terrestrial TV, with the Freeview TV guide and package of channels. Any device that receives this will have a Freeview logo on it. They all need an aerial to be plugged in.
You're talking about official and unofficial streams or catch up services.
Please understand my point that these are NOT the same thing.

I have used both of these options so I know they work. The only issue I find is you don't get regional tv live, though you can get BBC Scotland or BBC Northern Ireland.

Precisely. Not Freeview then. Viewing things for free, yes.

macman

Once you've cancelled VM, you will probably save the price of an aerial install in about 3 months...that's money saving.

datlex

almillar wrote: »

datlex - It is accurate. I'm talking about Freeview http://www.freeview.co.uk/ - that's free, digital terrestrial TV, with the Freeview TV guide and package of channels. Any device that receives this will have a Freeview logo on it. They all need an aerial to be plugged in.
You're talking about official and unofficial streams or catch up services.
Please understand my point that these are NOT the same thing.

Precisely. Not Freeview then. Viewing things for free, yes.

No I am not talking about catch up services. I am talking about live tv via apps. In fact one app you can use for live BBC feeds is the iplayer app, which of course you can also use for catch up.


I have to smile at the suggestion that freeview devices have a logo on them, my tv with built in freeview doesn't have a logo on other than the manufacturer's own logo. :-D

Kurtis_Blue

datlex wrote: »

No I am not talking about catch up services. I am talking about live tv via apps. In fact one app you can use for live BBC feeds is the iplayer app, which of course you can also use for catch up.

As others have already informed you a collection of apps covering a few live streams, some stable some not, is not "freeview" this is freeview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(UK)

Every licenced freeview product will have the logo on the packaging at least.

VisionMan

datlex wrote: »

No I am not talking about catch up services. I am talking about live tv via apps.

This isn't Freeview. Its IPTV. Or internet Television, as its now called. I get all my live PSB HD channels via the internet, but it still isn't Freeview.

almillar

No I am not talking about catch up services. I am talking about live tv via apps.

I know that - read what I said again:

You're talking about official and unofficial streams or catch up services.

BBC iPlayer is one such app that you've used an example. You can use it for catch up, and live TV, free. But it's not Freeview!
Depending on your internet connection, it might me nowhere near the same quality either. And the streaming site might be breaking copyright law too. Some of them have their place, but it's not as a replacement for a proper TV platform.

Your TV will have had a Freeview logo on the box or stuck to the set itself in the showroom.

JJ_Egan

Streaming sites have a habit of being taken down.
Wiziwig .