irishbloo

Its been working on my lap top.

Wol

Agreed. The ITV player works pretty well on my nominally 1.4MBs connection (actually around 1.2MBs down / .25MBs up) but BBC buffers continually.

YouTube must do clever things like looking at your download speed and adjusting the resolution to make the viewing continuous - why the BBC can't is the question.

The BBC website as utterly appalling, too - trying to find anything is worse than trying to fix your printer or modem....

Amazulu

iplayer on windows is pants - although you can download content to view offline. It is better on Smarthub and Roku

Technically, Netflix is the best because (as with YouTube) it adjusts quality to suit the connection rather than buffer

renth

Have you noticed that sometimes Youtube buffers but the ads never do? Different, better servers for the adverts. Netflix too, as you say, changes quality based on bandwidth, clever stuff and streets ahead of iPlayer.

I just bought a UK Roku from my latest trip. Looking forward to setting it up and seeing what's what.

Amazulu

You get that on 4oD and C5 as well sometimes - ads fine but programme buffers

I found my UK Roku a pain to setup. I had to do it via a VPN - which is not easy to do on a router. Big hassle but I got it done

Interestingly the Netgear R7000 Nighthawk router that I recently got has a built in VPN function - the first time I've seen this on a consumer grade router

Latest device for me is an Amazon Fire TV box. A beautiful little piece of tech - and has the ability to change DNS locally

renth

I think I need one of those, and wait, that mean's I've run out of HDMI ports, looks like I need a new telly too, maybe a 4k one!

Amazulu

Can't have too many HDMI ports

I'd love a new TV - but the minister of war and finance is putting a brake on that

I think the Fire TV is the nicest TV streamer out there ATM

Red_V_Roger

With ZXCV just gone, I need another solution to getting British TV (BBC, ITV, C4 stuff only) on a TV (not PC) and a SIMPLE way to operate it after it is set-up as the wife needs to be able to use it once its set-up and I am away. Currently I have:

Telstra Velocity Broadband (very fast)
Media Server
WD Live Box
Several Sony Smart TV's

Is it easier to say just use Kickass torrents in a similar way to The Box/ZXCV or what would be the best suggestion at the moment?

Amazulu

Haven't you read any of this thread?

Plenty of info on what BE people are doing to get content

Easiest, off the shelf way in Australia is a Samsung Bluray player with Smarthub - about $150
A DNS redirect service - about $4 a month

Loads of info online about how to do it

Easy peasy

Red_V_Roger

Most of it, but I drifted off to sleep when people started to discuss if plasma TV's are made any more.

Amazulu

Samsung BR player is the way to go

Wol

Does it play all BluRay regions?

Amazulu

That I don't know

maybe it can be hacked?

Wol

I've hacked DVD players to make them multiregional but if I've got it right they are locked in software whereas BluRay players have hardware locking so are not amenable to change.

Having said that I have recently bought one of the few that *can* have the regional lock changed at will, although you do have to enter the region code whenever you watch a different region to that which is set.

GarryP

Does anyone have practical experiences of getting Now TV working in Oz?

I'm looking at getting one sent over (£12.50 with 4 months Entertainment package) primarily as a sit back way of accessing iPlayer/4OD.

The plan would be a SmartDNS service setup on the router, such that Now TV/Chromecast can access UK services (maybe US in future for Netflix). Maybe even two subnets with different DNS (if I can work out forcing DHCP to play ball), with a wifi access point driving them.

Seems like it's possible, but looking for gotchas.