plasticcanuck

My BBC and ITV players are still working quite well with Unblockus.com. I did register with BBC and told a couple of porkies regarding my postal code and having a license. The only issue I have now is with the Apple TV. According to the iPlayer Forum the device is now not compatible (it has been for years) as regards Closed Captioning with the BBC iPlayer. With the ITVplayer it I could never get CC, but otherwise it's okay. My hearing certainly is not as acute as in my earlier years but with some of the U.K. Dialects sounding like foreign languages, the CC absolutely contributes to my viewing pleasure.

Danny B

Has anything else stopped working re: UK content? For example does the BBC news page take you to Home - BBC News or UK - BBC News

I rebooted my cable modem once and when it came back nothing worked. In the end I had to login to the unblockus sign in page on their website and click refresh. I think when the modem rebooted it gave me a different IP that was not registered with unblockus.

SchnookoLoly

Exactly the same with UnoTelly. I have to re-associate my IP address when my router reboots or when the IP changes periodically, but it takes two seconds to do that and then everything is up and running no problem.

BBC still working fine for us under UnoTelly.

withabix

Same with us...

Steve_

I have to say I always find this topic to be a pet peeve of mine because they're not VPNs, they're proxies, they call them VPNs because you typically use the VPN client software on your computer to connect to them. However there is no encryption as with a VPN, it's just a simple proxy relay.

If you've got a computer, why the hell bother, you're effectively stealing it anyway so just download it using a torrent from a site like Pirate Bay. Then you don't have to worry about bandwidth issues because you've got the file. And if it's not popular enough to be torrented then it's probably crap you're watching anyway.

All this grief you're putting yourselves through to stream it through a browser, why bother.

Not that I care because there's nothing produced in the UK I actually give a shit about. I do watch Have I Got News For You occasionally but that's on Youtube.

withabix

Who cares what you call them?

We use several Roku 3 boxes via UnoTelly, so no capacity to download. No bandwidth issues either. Runs smoothly in HD.

Same for ITV Player, 5, 4OD and other Roku-accessible channels.

As for UK-produced TV content, it is way better than the barrage of American crap.

SchnookoLoly

Okay, yes, it's a DNS service as opposed to a VPN. Whatever, that's kind of splitting hairs.

I like it to watch stuff on iPlayer. Yes, we could download instead, but iPlayer is just simpler. Plus when you watch to watch on a whim you don't have to wait for it to download. And I do download other stuff.

So whatever.

BristolUK

Yeah but it's all rubbish anyway. The Oracle says so.

SchnookoLoly

Oh, silly me. Yes, The Oracle has indeed spoken, I should cease watching all shows I previously have watched, as I am clearly an inferior being.

Danny B

Torrents are so last year

Most people I know stream movies on their laptop which is then connected via HDMI to their big TV and played in full screen.

I wont link direct, but www . primewire . ag is one of the best for movies and TV shows. Just be sure to use Chrome and install an add on called ublock origin
first.

BristolUK

My "go to" along with watchtvseries (in its various forms)
Works as an add-on for Firefox too. Saves me closing the tabs that open.

quiltman

I spent a lot of yesterday watching BBC1 on TVCatchup - Channels and only had one brief hiccup when the router rebooted itself. I use HOXX proxy to watch iplayer - again with only rare hiccups. mostly I download from torrents, put on USB to play on TV.

Hindsight

Totally agree, Have I got News for you is about the only thing worth watching and its on youtube ... plus maybe some Quite Interesting

Steve_

Yeah but why do that, why not just buy a cheap PC and plug it into your TV. I mean you can get 2TB drives now for peanuts. Then just download the stuff from a torrent site and you can play it on back on the TV using any media player you like.

And you can stream it from a PC to any TV in your house if you want using one of those USB plug-in thingies.

We've had this thread on here a thousand times but the reality is that anything half decent in the UK is on cable in Canada anyway, with some very rare exceptions. And in fact a load of UK crap like Coronation Street is on CBC even.

Don't see the fascination with using proxies.

Steve_

It's not a DNS service, it's not a VPN - it's a proxy. DNS has nothing to do with it, we're at the session and transport layers here substituting IP addresses.

Nowadays with home internet connections being over 100 mbits/s it takes a few minutes tops to download the file. And you don't have to worry about it going shaky or buffering because you've got the whole file.