Watching UK tv in the Philippines
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Re: Watching UK tv in the Philippines
Just checked their website, the only sports on offer is WWE and Impact Wresting!! Are they even sports??
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Re: Watching UK tv in the Philippines
I watched the ''old firm'' last night 20:15 manila time
Live streaming on Watch Free live video streaming of many sport events. Various live sport streams online, sport videos and live score for free.
Lots of sport options. just enter your time zone GMT + 8 for Manila and you get live start times.
I use this for Soccer, Rugby and cricket and last years Olympics etc.
There are other sites
I am with PLDT on the cheap plan. 1mb plus land line telephone cost 1670.00 per month
Live streaming on Watch Free live video streaming of many sport events. Various live sport streams online, sport videos and live score for free.
Lots of sport options. just enter your time zone GMT + 8 for Manila and you get live start times.
I use this for Soccer, Rugby and cricket and last years Olympics etc.
There are other sites
I am with PLDT on the cheap plan. 1mb plus land line telephone cost 1670.00 per month
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Re: Watching UK tv in the Philippines
I spend 8 months of the year in the UK where I have a 200Mbps connection and the remaining 4 months here where it's a maximum of 1.5Mbps!!! :-( With the buffering and cuts etc etc streaming is a waste of time - download THEN watch is the only viable route for me.
I don't do sport but rarely watch TV here, only BBC World News occasionally. I find Filipino TV to be pretty dire (we're on a cable package with Marbel Cable, the local provider) so my content comes primarily from the UK. Every Oct/Nov I arrive here with a hard drive full of films and TV progs that we will watch. The rest of stuff is downloaded from torrents!
I have a Humax Freesat recorder back in the UK which is connected up to my network and I access that remotely through my PC back in Manchester. I can set recording schedules online and when the HD gets a bit full I transfer the media files to my PC for viewing when I get back to the UK. It takes me about 2 months catching up with Corrie, Emmerdale, etc, LOL.
I also use a (free) program called get_iplayer which downloads most programmes broadcast by the BBC (radio and TV), which gets round the BBC iPlayer's 30 day restriction. Over the years I've built up a nice library of viewing material which I can take with me to the Phils. For those of you with a reasonable connection it could be worth trying in conjunction with a VPN. Most things on iPlayer can be downloaded in a variety of quality levels (to cut down on download time). Contact me offlist if you're interested.
With my net speed here it's too tortuous to try to download anything big from my server back in the UK, hard drive is the only way. Maybe one day! ;-)
Regards
Alan
I don't do sport but rarely watch TV here, only BBC World News occasionally. I find Filipino TV to be pretty dire (we're on a cable package with Marbel Cable, the local provider) so my content comes primarily from the UK. Every Oct/Nov I arrive here with a hard drive full of films and TV progs that we will watch. The rest of stuff is downloaded from torrents!
I have a Humax Freesat recorder back in the UK which is connected up to my network and I access that remotely through my PC back in Manchester. I can set recording schedules online and when the HD gets a bit full I transfer the media files to my PC for viewing when I get back to the UK. It takes me about 2 months catching up with Corrie, Emmerdale, etc, LOL.
I also use a (free) program called get_iplayer which downloads most programmes broadcast by the BBC (radio and TV), which gets round the BBC iPlayer's 30 day restriction. Over the years I've built up a nice library of viewing material which I can take with me to the Phils. For those of you with a reasonable connection it could be worth trying in conjunction with a VPN. Most things on iPlayer can be downloaded in a variety of quality levels (to cut down on download time). Contact me offlist if you're interested.
With my net speed here it's too tortuous to try to download anything big from my server back in the UK, hard drive is the only way. Maybe one day! ;-)
Regards
Alan
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Re: Watching UK tv in the Philippines
As you are Uk Based you wish to take a look at this
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FILMON TV FREE LIVE TV MOVIES AND SOCIAL TELEVISION
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Re: Watching UK tv in the Philippines
I have a Humax Freesat recorder back in the UK which is connected up to my network and I access that remotely through my PC back in Manchester. I can set recording schedules online and when the HD gets a bit full I transfer the media files to my PC for viewing when I get back to the UK. It takes me about 2 months catching up with Corrie, Emmerdale, etc, LOL.
http://www.dailymotion.com/ph/releva...January+2017/1
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I get all my Brit TV that I want to watch either via Filmon or torrents and the political progs from youtube. Rarely do I stream , mainly due to the time difference, other than maybe Andrew Marr on Sunday which is 5.00pm here.
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Useful responses, thanks guys, especially Filmon. I wasn't aware of that company. Mind you, how I'd cope with any live streaming is another matter - probably a recipe for stress induced heart attacks - it took 5 goes just to load this webpage, never mind watching any video content. 1.5Mbps is a theoretical concept and not a steady speed! I think I'll stick with my present system for as long as I'm hopping between the two countries! ;-)
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Re: Watching UK tv in the Philippines
Kodi and Mobdro are your friends.
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Thanks for that link, I used VPN elsewhere in Asia but would like to be able to drop it if possible so this is perfect. Especially as I still pay my TV license fee in UK for the property I own and can't watch myself!
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There's a free proxy VPN called HOOXX which has extensions for PC,MAC and some others. No torrents allowed and only works in your browser, so anything else that uses t'internet is not covered. Works fine and can stream quite happily from iplayer.(when set to UK of course) Currently you cannot download from iplayer but they say they are working on this for a future update.If you want to torrent anonymously then you'll need a "proper" VPN that diverts ALL your internet traffic.