I called credit card co and since I paid a yr. they will dispute it for me so I wont lose out on all the money. Now I am truly depressed. I need someone to figure out how I can get the channels! Maybe someone will let me put that sling box in their home for a small fee!

You cannot legally watch UK TV programs outside of the UK. If you do you do so at your own risk.

Has no one heard of You Tube? That's what most people do when they want to reminisce on UK TV. And it's free!
I feel really bad for all those who have lost their money and their TV, but just take it as a learning opportunity and move on please? There is not a way for you to legally watch live UK TV in the US. It's unfortunate, but that's the way it is.
There's been a ton of threads about it on here today and some have been aimed at us as if we are the ones at fault!
If TV has that much of an impact on peoples lives, especially when they are in another country, surrounded by so many things to do, see, hear, beautiful weather, etc. then all I can say is BLOODY HELL!!!

Geez, I can't believe the hullabaloo over TV. When I left Canada, the LAST thing I was worried about was not being able to see Canadian television. Haven't missed it for a second.

I have signed with the telly.net and thanks for ya;ll advice and help. Their demos arent available but somewhere actually called my home from the company to tell me that the demos werent available but helped me with questions. I signed up and now have the uk stations back on line. I didnt get the tivo service but I am still happy with the service. IT is montly paid and a bit more but I actually was able to get live help setting up. Thanks all!

Under 2 hours and your back up....
with a quick sale pitch ..very good ....

I wonder how long this one will last ......

i cant believe they are still moaning on about it - cant we close these threads? Half of them arnt even in the US!

Like lambs to the slaughter...

You can via a slingbox device which I have in the UK and also here in Canada - as for myself I still pay a UK TV licence as I have property in the Uk and spend 3 month's of the year there. Like wise I pay for my Canadian cable service for my property in Toronto - so it does become frustrating that the BBC\ITV force these websites out of service and blame copyright law.

I wonder how Sirius gets to broadcast BBC Radio 1 via the Sat radio - doesn't music have some type of copyrght?

I'm with you Emma M I do not have t.v. period. I don't miss it and I don't want it.

To do it this way is about the most legal of the lot, and only because you own the property where the slingbox is located. To ask a friend or family member to host a slingbox for you is a breach of Sling's T&Cs. Having the telly.net folks host one for you has to also be, so I can't see it lasting. Plus that service is bloody expensive!

I do, however, think that the telly.net's splash screen is funny. BBC America and "Crap in the attic" indeed. They were just running fairly recent Dr. Who episodes on BBCA, which was great for me because I had missed a fair number of the David Tennant ones. Well what do they abruptly do the middle of last week....change to episodes of bloody Changing Rooms. :curse:

I think a fair number of us would take legal steps to purchase programming directly from the UK IF it were made available. Until then, we gotta do what we gotta do. The programme providers will come round, eventually. Look at what's happened with films, and for that matter programming that IS offered in both countries....used to be you had to wait 6 months beyond the UK premiere to see a Hollywood film open in Leicester Square. Nowdays you sometimes even get them a couple of days ahead. And as for TV, you are just a week or so behind the US for American Idol.

In another thread, someone asked about proxies in the UK for the iPlayer, ITV catch-up, and 4oD? I have a good one that I work through, cost is 10 quid a month. PM me for details.

On related threads, I've read a couple of times that people have been trying to use Live UKTV to watch the cricket. I am sorry to hear that people have wasted money on an illegal site when there is an American company that have the rights to show the cricket.

The legal / official way to watch the cricket in the US is Willow.tv. I'm watching the Test Match as i write (and wow, a decent bowling performance for once!). You pay about $149 for the entire year and that gets you all the test matches at home and abroad, all the one days and so on. About 600kbps. I've been using it for three years now and am pretty pleased overall. Much cheaper than what one would be paying in the UK for the same service on Sky, even if there your picture quality would be much better.

I understand what you are saying, but I think it is a bit of an oversimplification. Over the last few days, I've watched a load of stuff through various legit means (I'm in NC on a mid-priced cable package):

(1) Champions League Final, Chelsea v. ManU was live on ESPN on Wednesday. Watched it in glorious HD at no extra cost!

(2) PMQs is live on C-SPAN2, Wednesday 7a.m. (I'm a glutton for punishment)

(3) Watched the Eurovision Song Contest live yesterday afternoon on the live stream from Eurovision.tv (I did say that I was a glutton for punishment, right?), 700kbps, unbroken feed. No Tezza, alas.

(4) Watching the Test Match now on Willow TV (but costs).

(5) Doctor Who is on SciFi every Friday. They are showing Series 4 at the moment and are only 3 weeks behind the BBC1 broadcast. But one annoyance: they sometimes cut parts of episodes -- buy the DVDs when they are out too.

(6) BBC World News is on every morning and every evening on BBC America, live from London.

(7) FSC (Fox Soccer Channel) shows the Sky Sports News every evening at 7pm.

(8) The BBC News website has a ton of video material available -- you can select a news story and watch it. You can watch any news broadcast, panorama, Question Time etc. too if you don't mind the crappy quality. (I do mind it).

That's just a handful of things. Still, what I'd love to see long term is the BBC allowing expats access to the iPlayer by paying a TV license; I think it ought to be do-able; I wish they would take it seriously as a possibility.

They have the rights to show the Indian Premier League in North America
only it seems

loads of alternatives, guba.com, youtube, torrents, psp streaming websites, or paid proxy/vpn service to stream UK content, it's not like it's the end of the world...

I'd rather pay the beeb than some dodgy illegal site though myself and do a sling service type deal....