smilyjacqui

Does anyone know of a way to get BBC in America besides cable or satellite. The programs on Charter are very limited, mainly to Ramsey and Top Gear. Not that they are not entertaining, but should be taken in small doses.

kimilseung

Have you done a search, lots of threads on this. Some people use a VPN for watching live. Others torrent shows. (I do not know what 'on Charter' means)

smilyjacqui

Thanks for the information. Charter is the local cable TV provider.

Bob

Charter are a crappy cable company.

To the OP, welcome to BE!

But yes, this question has been asked a lot and answered a lot.

Basically it boils down to you either wanting to spend $5-10 a month to watch stuff live on via the tv channel catch up service, or you downloading the shows to watch later, either via torrents or newsgroups.

kimilseung

As you mention newsgroups - I have to once again give praise to Sick Beard. Its the best bit of software ever (well working with Sabnzbd and xbmc as a triumvirate) for getting TV

cluedweasel

Pretty much my setup of choice at the moment although I prefer Plex to XBMC. It seems to handle the meta-data and media management a bit more smoothly.
I was looking for a good Sabnzd/Sickbeard/XBMC tutorial to link to, but the ones that are around seem pretty dire.

Goodacre

Yes, a whole load of options these days. Other than bit-torrent, it might also be worth mentioning Expat Shield, which is free, and is an ok way of catching the IPlayer on your PC. One new thing if you have a Roku is MummyBox, which has live feeds of BBC1, 2, ITV, Channel 4, Dave. So far, so good, and free.

Nutek

How did I miss that? I have to go look when I get home from work tonight.

Thanks!

Bob

Also, with a little bit of faff, but Serviio has a online feed database site, which has a link to a GUI program that grabs feeds off of Wiziwig.tv which is great for sports.

It's a bit of a faff because you then need to fiddle around with the stream address it grabs a little before pasting that into Serviio, which can then feed it to your tele as it is a DNLA server. Which is great if you've got a Sony Blu-ray player, WD Media jobby, or PS3 and probably a bunch of other hardware already hooked up to the tele.

Nutek

Got this working. Thanks!

SarahG

I use Expat Shield and have had no problems with it. I hook up my laptop to my TV and watch it that way.

Nutek

Doing the same here. Different VPN service (UKiVPN) but same setup. Any reccomendations on websites / shows? I use iPlayer and 4oD mainly.

Bob

http://www.wiziwig.tv/ for sport.

If you're using a VPN and Netflix, can get the UK catalogue too.

Nutek

Thanks.

Will give the sports a try. Havent gone for Netflix yet as we have Amazon Prime and havent worked thru their free catalog yet.

Titchski

Thanks for this