not2old

I watched the full Man-C game this afternoon = no issues

quiltman

Here in the Philippines I use FILMON TV FREE LIVE TV MOVIES AND SOCIAL TELEVISION , set up the programs I want to watch, filmon records it, and I download it at my leisure to watch on the TV later. you can also stream TV live. No VPN or DNS change.
That's how my wife gets to watch her beloved emmerdale every day as it's on at 2.00am local time!
They have various footy matches on as well. total of 600 TV channels from around the world, all legal and licenced. OK, there are a couple of channels I like that are not on Filmon but they can be "obtained" easily via other means!

you get 10 hours of free recording in standard definition but if you pay for HD then you can get loads more recording time.
It works the same as we used to set our Tivo box back in UK.

kevinm

Thanks for all the replies.
Sounds like there are a couple of options.

Londonuck

bump...

Anyone bought a WD TV Live Streaming Media Player box? Just wondering how good they are. Can't keep renegotiating with Shaw every 6 months.

nikki dreaming

We use uno telly and it works great including sky go

hpka

I do like my one but it feels a bit dated now.

(Please keep in mind the following advice may not necessarily be compatible with watching UK TV in all circumstances. This is just my generic advice on streaming boxes). I usually recommend a combination of a Chromecast and a streaming box such as a Roku for complete coverage of most services. A Chromecast is $40 and a Roku is about $100, so not a large investment. Of course, this can wildly vary (some smart TVs have all the streaming services you desire for example) and I usually say start with the cheaper Chromecast and add a Roku later when you feel you want to watch something on it (don't feel like you have to buy both immediately.

Having said that, I find that using Plex for my home media and for iPlayer+Unblock.us on a laptop I keep running all the time, and Rasplex on a Raspberry Pi, gets the most use (probably because it's connected to the main telly). It's hardly "off the shelf" though.

Londonuck

Thanks for that. I have Unotelly and my good laptop connected to the telly. I want to stop connecting and unconnecting, the HDMI connection is getting a bit worn. I just fancied something to use when I stop getting the basic package of programmes. I only watch HGTV really and TSN/SNP and after the last bs with Shaw i want rid.

Londonuck

Same here. I use my Mum and Dad's Sky Go

SchnookoLoly

I mostly agree with this, but not entirely.

You need to know that with Chromecast, you can't by default cast non-regional content. So if you are in Canada, Chromecast can only play content from Canadian Netflix. Even if you have unotelly or unblock-us set up.

The reason is that unotelly and unblock-us are DNS spoofing services, not VPN services. They don't actually re-route your traffic like a VPN does, which is why they are faster. Instead they just spoof the location request by getting it from a specific DNS server instead of the website's default DNS server.

Chromecast, though, breaks the rule. Chromecast is programmed to bypass whatever DNS setup you have, including unotelly and unblock-us, and will ALWAYS ping back to Google's DNS servers to do a location check. So if you have Netflix up on your iPad, and you open up Frasier (which is on US Netflix but not on CA Netflix) and hit Cast, Chromecast will give you an error that says the video is not available. You'll get the same error with iPlayer.

There is a workaround to this, which I have posted elsewhere and use in my house just fine with Netflix and iPlayer. I can provide if anyone wants it. It does involve a bit of technological confidence, but the instructions are very easy to follow if you are up for it.

WE also have a Roku, which I like very much. The only thing I"ll say about Roku is that you can only set it to one country. So when we got ours, we registered a US address (there are again workarounds to get a US address even with a Canadian credit card - we did it)... so we have access to the US suite of apps like Hulu and Pandora, but we do NOT have access to the UK suite, so no iPlayer for us. We figured since we have Chromecast, we can just use iPlayer on that, and then will get the rest of the US Suite through Roku.

Hope that helps.

magnumpi

This

Also no 3pm TV black out in Canada

hpka

I'm yet to find a set top box/streaming stick that really works for location spoofing streaming... almost as if they hadn't thought of it when making them.

SchnookoLoly

I don't think there are any that just work, since, well, they aren't supposed to.

The easiest setup I've found is one of the DNS services (unotelly and unblock-us are the leaders), Chromecast, and DD-WRT on the router to re-route the Google DNS requests.

I won't lie, it is a bit of effort to get it set up, but these things aren't supposed to be very simple.

magnumpi

The easiest set up I found for on tap HD footy and a PVR was to give rogers $90 a month

SchnookoLoly

LOL. Yes, that works too. :P

Scribble

I use ProxyPlayer but I use it mostly on my Smartphone