duffer

The Slingbox works with cable and satellite.
www.slingbox.com
It's a bit pricey though...

ballerina

Yeah, I was pretty bored the day i set up the webcam to watch Coronation St! The Slingbox loks like an incredible piece of gadgetry though! Just the thing for me. I was too excited to read all the spec thoroughly but i think it will be perfect! How come I have never heard of that before?! Thanks so much for recommending it and I was surprised too, I was expecting something a lot more pricey but it said 187€.. not too bad for free telly forever!

duffer

Ciao Testarossa,

Happy Easter.

How easy was it to cancel your subscription or free trial to the live uk tv service? Thinking for signing up to it just for the 2 big matches on today...

TestaRossa

Probably too late, sorry. But the trial just finished at the end of 7 days but you can't choose which channel to watch on the trial, it is a set one each day. If you sign up you can cancel after one month only and you pay by credit card.

duffer

Couldn't get the bloody thing to work on my Mac however I didn't realise you were limited to 1 channel of their choice per day during the trial.

TestaRossa

Yeah, although I found that was okay - what it told me was I don't really miss UK TV that much. Too much of an American TV fan for it to bother me, so FOX is just perfect. Jimmy, Prime and Hallmark have some good UK shows on too and any I really want I've started to get cheap off Amazon or even i-tunes - the BBC and Channel4 is putting a few shows on there now and at £1.89 an episode I don't really notice it!

duffer

£1.89?? So I've paid the equivalent of about 175 downloads to get my UK TV (although if I had got it right first time it would have been a lot less ).
But you still have to watch it on the pc, right? Unless you can hook up the harddrive to your TV??

yellowdog

Hello Duffer! DId I read correct, you have a Mac?

duffer

Yes in addition to the PC which is used only for downloading.

Ka Ora!

A Better alternative to using a proxy sever would be to use a VPN no loss of bandwidth and you should have no issues connecting to to you local services for Email etc. I use Strong VPN you get a choice of American or UK based IP address Alteratively this is a free one HOTSPOT SHIELD but i think you get only an american based IP address.

yellowdog

Nice one. I'm graphic/web designer so I use Mac's in my work.

TestaRossa

You can now get a gadget from Apple called Apple TV which allows you to play your i-tunes downloads through your TV. It was about £99 last time I looked. All the shows can be downloaded onto i-pods and you can back them up to disk but only to be played on the computer you download them on. But with this Apple TV you can definitely watch through your TV set. More channels are signing up for i-tunes every week - I have the i-touch and it is great for travelling with as the screen is big enough for watching on a journey. The tv shows are very memory hungry though, something with 23 episodes takes up about 11Gb on a PC, but very little on an i-pod, so it might be the same on a Mac.

Later this year i-tunes UK store is going to have movie rentals available. Having said that if your Italian is good you can already do this through Mediaworld here in Italy.

yellowdog

Yes I think the Apple TV 2 is a great product. I might get it for home when I see how the rental thing pans out. I don't want to rent films and watch them in italian so they need to add some audio preference. I don't think shows from the uk will be available to anyone watching from italy even if they have a uk itunes account. But i could be wrong.

Ka Ora!

If you have a UK account then you can watch them.

yellowdog

An iTunes uk account. Thats great. If for some mad reason I ever lose my satellite I have another option.