BBC America HD on DirecTV

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Aug 16th 2012, 7:25 pm

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hobbes79

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Re: BBC America HD on DirecTV

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Originally Posted by Bob

Don't know about you, but it's been as choppy as shit though....hoping it'll sort itself out though.

I don't know, as I'm a cheap git and don't subscribe to the channel

But did see it pop up in the guide.

Found I could live without 27 episodes of Dr Who per day.

Aug 16th 2012, 8:28 pm

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Bob

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Re: BBC America HD on DirecTV

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Originally Posted by hobbes79

I don't know, as I'm a cheap git and don't subscribe to the channel

But did see it pop up in the guide.

Found I could live without 27 episodes of Dr Who per day.

We don't subscribe to it either, but it, along with a bunch of kids channels appeared a while back and have stayed on

Aug 16th 2012, 9:09 pm

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TimFountain

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Re: BBC America HD on DirecTV

Used to have it, 10 years ago. Like all US TV, it was impossible to watch live due to the low ratio of programming to advertising. We cancelled BBCA from our lineup when they canned Eastenders, which was a long time ago in another state. In general we don't watch anything live. UKNova all the way for us. Also lucky as we have a 50Mb fiber connection and regularly get that kind of D/L speed. I can pull an hour of programming from UKNova in 6-7 minutes if there are a decent number of seed. I've never really had any luck with UK VPN's and BBC player etc, it all seems like a lot of work.

- Tim