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Old Aug 21st 2014, 9:53 pm
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We have a couple of Roku devices and pay for an Acorn TV subscription. I just finished watching a fascinating mini documentary series on medicine (Pain, Pus & Poison - apparently was on BBC4). It doesn't have the depressing crap like Eastenders thankfully. Well worth the $5 per month or whatever it costs.

We also have BBC America on cable which is great for endless reruns of Top Gear (UK version).
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Great, thanks, there does seem to be a lot of options.
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Use a proxy service (it makes it 'appear' that you are connecting from the UK). We pay about 30 GBP for 6 months of proxy-tastic-ness. Don't bother with the free ones, they have no SLA and go down all the time. We have no cable tv: I only watch bbc iplayer with my trusty proxy
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One of our British neighbours was talking about something like UKTVNow or somesuch - reckons they have a DVR type catch up service of the last 2 weeks of a whole bunch of UK channels, including (don't quote me on this) Sky.. I think he said it was $20-odd a month. Didn't really pay much attention as we watch very little TV....we cut (most of) the cable a few months back and the kids haven't even noticed yet
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Hmm, maybe this was it, although he didn't mention the initial setup costs....!
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I don't watch a great deal of TV anymore but I do enjoy listening to Radio 4, 4 extra and BBC World service.
I've got a great phone app called Radio Lounge which provides most BBC radio stations - national and local. Great to stream on bluetooth when I'm driving. You can get a lot of BBC radio re-runs on the web of course.
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Originally Posted by sherbert
Use a proxy service (it makes it 'appear' that you are connecting from the UK). We pay about 30 GBP for 6 months of proxy-tastic-ness. Don't bother with the free ones, they have no SLA and go down all the time. We have no cable tv: I only watch bbc iplayer with my trusty proxy
Bull!

I use Hola and I've never had an issue (well, very rarely)!

Well worth the money ($0). What I save on not paying for a service, I can spend on British Bangers or Bacon.
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I use ZenMate. Free.
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Is there another thread on this in parallel? I thought I read some posts about a VPN that someone mentioned (began with an S- Snake something or other?)and someone else came back and said "just been looking at that - looks cool" and now I can't find them....am I going mad?
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Yorkieabroad - go back to page 1 Kimilsungs post - it's Sickbeard!
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Whoops, should have added it's post #3.
(Put it down to old age)
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Yorkieabroad - go back to page 1 Kimilsungs post - it's Sickbeard!
So what you're saying is I am going mad

Thanks for that!!

Ps - The old age thing isn't so funny, although my doc seems to think it is....when I go to see him now, he always starts with "before we start, lets all agree that we'll work on the fact that its a long time since you were 20 years old"
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Thanks for those. So I'm taking it the options are not strictly above board but it's good to know there is a way. Isn't the BBC really missing a trick? they could easily go down a subscription to iplayer route if you're not in the UK
Really? How? All that would happen is only approved vendors would be able to login to iPlayer, whereas currently anyone can develop against iPlayer streams.
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Originally Posted by kimilseung
Free browser plugins for iPlayer
paid for VPN/smart DNS to watch iPlayer
torrents
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BBC America cable channel (least best option imo)

I use Sick Beard with SabNZBd to go get TV show series for me, they appear on my media player, stored on a NAS and I watch them on TV (I just type the name of the series I want, and they download by magic)
Sickbeard / usenet is useful but unless a scene group is interested in releasing BBC4 stuff, then I doubt it will be of much use to the OP, who doesn't appear too technically literate.

Personally if I was the OP, I would purchase a Roku whilst in the UK, register it there so you have access to BBC iPlayer, then when I was here I would pay for a DNS proxy service to allow continued access to Roku UK channels (4OD, iPlayer et al).
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Old Aug 24th 2014, 4:05 pm
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Originally Posted by sherbert
Use a proxy service (it makes it 'appear' that you are connecting from the UK). We pay about 30 GBP for 6 months of proxy-tastic-ness. Don't bother with the free ones, they have no SLA and go down all the time. We have no cable tv: I only watch bbc iplayer with my trusty proxy
That's pretty expensive, considering most services are $5-6 a month.
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