Hi all

Is there any way that you can get UK tv in Canada? If you are able to satelite it...how? and what would the cost be?
Thanks
Stef

Have you tried searching for this subject??? I do know it has been asked several times.

Hi Thanks
Had a quick trawl, got some ideas, but really wanted to know about getting it on TV if possible. While in Canada we went to look at a house where the owner was Jordanian and he had a huge satelite dish but could subscribe to tv 'back home' Anything similar for the uk?
lol
Stef

A satellite dish won't get you TV from the UK. Curvature of the Earth and all that from what I've read around here.

Hi
Oh dear...you would have though they could 'bouce' signals between satelites in this day and age? So the earth isn't flat????? (lol)
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Stef

To the best of my knowledge you cannot get UK TV live on your set here. You can get much of it on your computer and there are various ways of doing this. For $20 per month I get both BBC and ITV iPlayers and about 40 channels I can see live. As someone else pointed out there are many other threads on this so you should use the Search function here to track them down.

Thanks
I have done a search but a lot of them went off topic, so it became a bit labour intensive, not that I was being lazy, just wanted a direct answer to a direct question....thanks
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Stef

QUOTE=Auld Yin;8381736]To the best of my knowledge you cannot get UK TV live on your set here. You can get much of it on your computer and there are various ways of doing this. For $20 per month I get both BBC and ITV iPlayers and about 40 channels I can see live. As someone else pointed out there are many other threads on this so you should use the Search function here to track them down.[/QUOTE]

Torrents and UKnova

and I often watch footie live via triple dub atdhe.net

Usenet Newsgroups.

alt.binaries.british.drama
alt.binaries.multimedia
alt.binaries.boneless

etc, etc.

Newsgroups are provided as part of your internet package by Shaw and other ISP,s. Shaw has an approximate 30 day retention.

Files come as compressed .avi or .mkv viewable on your computer or your TV with the right equipment.

Thanks everyone
much appreciated
Can we watch Scottish football on tripledub? OH is keen fan, and a Scot, but he can't help that (lol)
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Stef

Maybe they could - but it's not as if there would be a huge market for it.

As has been mentioned, VPNs are the way to go for live TV (allow use of iPlayer and such) but you have to pay to get a reasonable one. For others (myself included), the time difference and working during the day means that live TV is seldom an advantage so downloading via BitTorrent is the way to go. I do the latter, and simply plug my laptop into my TV so that I can watch Eastenders the same day it aired in the UK, for free!

Tonrob,

I am on the wrong side of 60, so technologically challenged. Could you explain to me how you connect your laptop to your TV. What type of connection cord(s) do you use. Many thanks,
Auld Yin.

Hmmm.... depends on your laptop. I have a Macbook, and unless you have one too your requirements will be different.

I just Googled and came up with this site:

http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/how-to...t-laptop-to-tv

You could always go to The Lab forum on BE and ask there. Plenty of friendly geeky types about.

We dowload the torrents as mentioned above from UKNOVA / CHAOS UK to the laptop and then transfer the dowloaded programme to a USB pen which we plug into the DVD players we bought after moving as these DVD players have a USB ports which alow you to view the media files through them to the TV.

DVD's cost $74 which was pretty good as we needed new ones anyway after moving over.

8gb USB pens from Walmart were on offer @ $16 each. Can get loads of files on them for watching.

You can do it via the lap top as another poster said we just find it easier keeping the files on the USB pens and carrying them around the house depending where we want to watch the prog's.

Connecting laptop to the TV is a bit old school these days, really what you want is one of these type devices :-

http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/...47167fc6a1en02

Connect it to the tv, pop your downloaded files onto a USB stick, plug in, off you go....

Not useful for iplayer etc though - though there are ways of getting that on the tv, but not for the feint of heart.....