Basically what ever you are watching on your apple device or pc can be sent to a "smart" tv or one of the common media boxes so it shows up on your telly - This is mirroring

Just looking at some of the free content on the roku as well and most of it looks like bollox to be honest, unless you like crap horror movies and old westerns

So we are watching BBC right now on our TV via the laptop, that's mirroring? But when i watch via the Asus Cube it isn't mirroring?

Are you watching the content of your computer / ipad on the asus cube through wireless ?

Watching on smart tv via Asus cube wirelessly from the router. No computer/laptop/tablet involved. Asus is Google/Android tv

Don't forget that with mirroring, people change from left to right to right to left. And reading subtitles backwards is a real bugger.

Practice, practice, practice.

If any of these devices allowed you to watch UK TV live I'd get one. From the sounds of it though they just allow you to stream programmes which have already finished.

I don't need to watch live tv though. The cube has Chrome so i could watch BBC live i am sure but there is no reason to do so. I like the idea of watching at times to suit me.

We watch Live UK TV all the time on our TV's with the option of also watching on 'catch-up' TV if we want/need - best of both worlds

We sat with a drink watching the live midnight celebrations in London with Big Ben and the fireworks on UK TV.

I actually cancelled my Bell satellite service yesterday as over the Christmas break we must have watched about 2 hours worth of Canadian TV and the rest we watched was British so not paying the $80 monthly subscription for that.

I've got the in-laws still with us and the system is setup using the TV remote with no having to connect laptops, mirror from the ipad or anything and they get around it easily as it's very user friendly with just standard on screen TV Guide showing whats on now, next on all the channels and just click the TV remote to watch.

I walked into the house the other day and they were watching Corrie live from the UK .... so I walked straight to the bar and poured myself a drink

I've set it up so we can watch the US/Canadian ABC, CBS etc (free of course) as the OH likes to watch the bachelor or if there is anything on worth watching as well as all the sky sports, sky movie channels and terrestrial TV from the UK.

I said I'd never get rid of satellite until I had something that was user friendly and anyone not technically minded could work and get around easily and though I'm saying it myself - It's a pretty cool set-up.

I get all the channels below live and also have the usual catchups (ITV Player, BBC Iplayer etc) - the JSC channels are mainly sport and show everything from football to tiddly winks

5USA
A&E
ABC
ABCnews
AMC
Animal Planet
At The Races
BBC Four
BBC One
BBC Parliament
BBC Three
BBC Two
Bein Sports HD
Bloomberg USA
BoxNation
Bravo
Bravo
BT 2 HD
BT Sports 1
BT Sports 2
BT1 HD
Cartoon Network
CBS
CBS Drama
CBS Reality
Channel 4
Channel 5
CHELSEA TV
CNBC
CNN
CNN
Colors
Comedy Central
Crackle
CTV HD
CW
Dave
Discovery Channel
DISCOVERY!
E4
ESPN
Espn HD
ESPN UK
Europa Plus
Eurosport 1 HD
Eurosport 2 HD
FOX
Fox News
FoxSports 1 HD
FX
Game Show Network
HBO
Heart TV
History
ITV 1
ITV 2
ITV 4
ITV+1
ITV 2+1
ITV 3
ITV 3+1
ITV 4+1
JSC +1
JSC +1 HD
JSC +10
JSC +2
JSC +2 HD
JSC +3
JSC +3 HD
JSC +4
JSC +4 HD
JSC +5
JSC +5 HD
JSC +6
JSC +6 HD
JSC +7
JSC +8
JSC +9
Kiss TV
Lifetime
Marvel Kids
More4
MTV
My9
Nat Geo Wild
National Geopgrahic
NBA Tv
NBC
NBC Sports HD
NHK World
Nick
Nick Teen
Nick Toons
Nickelodeon
NNC Two
OSN 3
OSN 4
Oxygen
PBS
PBSkids
Pentagon Channel
PickTV
PPV Events
Premier Sports
Quest
Racing UK
Really
RTE 1
RTE 2
Russia Today
SET Asia
SET Max
Setanta Ireland
Showtime
Sky Action
Sky Comedy
Sky Drama
Sky Movies family
Sky Movies premier
Sky News HD
Sky One
SKY Poker
Sky Sci-Fi
Sky Sports 1
SKY Sports 1 HD
Sky Sports 2
SKY Sports 2 HD
Sky Sports 3
Sky Sports 3 HD
Sky Sports 4
Sky Sports 4 HD
Sky Sports F1
Sky Sports F1 HD
Sky Sports News
Spike
Sportsnet One HD
Sportsnet Ontario
Sportsnet World HD
Star Gold
Star Plus
Syfy
TBS
Ten Cricket
The Biography Channel
The CW
The Hub
TNT
TSN 1 HD
TSN 2 HD
TV Land
UK Gold
USA
VH1
WB
WB Kids
Yesterday

What system do you use, is it the android box you linked to previously? If it was how much set up was required, or was XBMC already installed?

I use an Apple TV and a Raspberry Pi - both running XBMC on different TV's in the house. I'm looking at getting another TV and will likely get an Android Box for that one.

the link I sent has XBMC pre-installed and it should be just a matter of installing a couple of free add ons (similar to apps on an iphone) if they aren't already installed - Iplayer, ITV Player, TV Guide etc.

To watch the catch up TV, you'll need a VPN so it looks like you are in the UK. However, there are a couple of live streaming add ons that will allow you to watch UK TV without the need for that (ExpatTV & NotFilmon are 2 of those add ons)

You can actually install XBMC on a PC or Laptop so you could install it on your home PC, have a play setting it up and seeing if you like it and if so buy an android box or similar to use as a standalone TV system.

I shall give that a go thanks. We are using unotelly at the minute with no problems & are experimenting with roku & plex but that is not helping us with watching uk based TV. Thanks again.

Drop me a PM if you have any questions on any of it or need a couple of useful links for the addons etc.

I've never had any problems setting it up but you never know.

Let me know how you get on.

Can you give us a step by step guide? I am so not technically minded! lol