British TV streaming in the US
Dec 15th 2016, 1:54 am
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Re: British TV streaming in the US
Correct, that's a recent change - this year I believe. But you don't, for example, need a TV license to watch BBC programs on other streaming services such as Netflix which is the point I was trying to make.
Dec 15th 2016, 2:42 am
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Re: British TV streaming in the US
As it happens we now have a home in England including a paid up TV licence but if we didn't I would still watch iPlayer and hope that some day they would come up with a mechanism to pay for it.
Dec 28th 2016, 10:27 pm
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Re: British TV streaming in the US
Website is up
http://www.britbox.com/
http://www.britbox.com/
Dec 28th 2016, 10:51 pm
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Re: British TV streaming in the US
keeping up appearances, fawlty towers and east enders. Not my cuppa tea.
Dec 29th 2016, 12:58 am
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Re: British TV streaming in the US
My dynamic DNS/VPN account has expired. Any recommendations I'll be signing up something in the next week or so.
Dec 29th 2016, 1:07 am
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Re: British TV streaming in the US
We have been using Tunnelbear for the past few years. Cost ~$50/year and I have it installed on my laptop, 2 iPhones and an iPad. Works just fine for us but if you'd like to browse some other VPN options they are reviewed below. (I've used it from the US, Canada, Australia and Belgium.)
TunnelBear VPN Review & Rating | PCMag.com
TunnelBear VPN Review & Rating | PCMag.com
Dec 29th 2016, 11:00 am
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Re: British TV streaming in the US
Tunnelbear and UnoTelly here. No problems with either, though I prefer Unotelly.
Hoping Britbox will negate the need for either, once it comes online.
Hoping Britbox will negate the need for either, once it comes online.
Dec 29th 2016, 1:50 pm
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Re: British TV streaming in the US
I use CyberGhost on my computer. The only reason for this is because I got a years free subscription. Annoyingly this was only for one device.
It's ok for accessing a certain BBC product with little lag.
I've not tried it for anything else.
It's ok for accessing a certain BBC product with little lag.
I've not tried it for anything else.
Dec 29th 2016, 4:57 pm
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Re: British TV streaming in the US
https://www.smartdnsproxy.com
DNS works well for all the UK live TV stuff.
VPN is great for torrents.
DNS works well for all the UK live TV stuff.
VPN is great for torrents.
Dec 29th 2016, 7:24 pm
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Dec 30th 2016, 4:09 pm
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Dec 30th 2016, 4:56 pm
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I had reliability issues (which others may have not suffered from).
They seemed to suffer badly from the Netflix debacle, and responded with opaqueness, just ignoring the issue and pretending it didnt happen. In itself access to UK Netflix is a minor issue for me, but the resulting removal of the functionality of the region pickers and removal of support posts and forums was.
They seemed to suffer badly from the Netflix debacle, and responded with opaqueness, just ignoring the issue and pretending it didnt happen. In itself access to UK Netflix is a minor issue for me, but the resulting removal of the functionality of the region pickers and removal of support posts and forums was.
Jan 5th 2017, 5:24 pm
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