Free TV streamed to you PC
 

I was checking a post on another forum and was given this link http://tvcatchup.com.

Its free and has the following channels. The quality is great

BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, ITV 1, ITV 2, ITV 3, ITV 4, Channel 4, E4, More 4, Five, Five US, Fiver, Film Four, Dave, CBBC & BBC News.

They'll be adding 6 additional channels (including Virgin 1. Sky Sports News, Yesterday) and a desktop player with a record facility/pause/rewind etc in the very near future, essentially an online freeview PVR. Right click the channel your viewing for fullscreen

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Wow, great find. I've been using Zattoo but this seems a lot better...

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I just tried it on my Samsun NC10 netbook, and it is great.

The quality is great.

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On their forum a desktop version is comming.

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Oh yeah the web version no download required.

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That is very good and so easy to sign up to a great find.

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Doesn't work for me using Firefox, but ok in IE.

Can't see any difference between low and high quality, even the download rate is the same which I would expect is the very reason for the different quality settings.

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Works fine for me using Firefox on Linux, maybe you need nightly tester tools to override any compatibility issues.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543

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Found the problem with Firefox. It seems an add-on called Adblock needs disabling.

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Working fine with Firefox 3 + Adblock Plus here

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Been using this for a few months, comes in quite handy and gets a 2*:tu: from me.

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Great find, thanks for the link.

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nice one homr ;) great find.

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Presumably if you watch this - it soon eats away at the "allowance" and you'll soon head for STM?

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Using the site will eat away all your bandwidth, but even under STM, there's enough bandwidth to carry on watching the shows over the site. Just your downloads will be slower.

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Does anybody now how much is being downloaded whil watching a show?

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It depends on the quality of the show. Higher = more bandwidth. I've not tried myself, though I'm sure it's not hard to run a bandwidth monitor while watching a programme.

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so which one is everyones excuse here?....

"So whether you are at uni, on holiday, travelling with work, away from home or are just too darn lazy to move away from your PC,"


at uni - without a TV???

travelling with work - DO SOME WORK (plus the hotel room should have a TV if it has net access)!

away from home - on holiday? Stop doing the same darn thing you went on holiday to get away from!

too darn lazy to move away from the PC - first point to the lazies then!!!

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Other 2 TVs in the house are being used.

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who's the man in the house Russ??? ;) you should be telling them what they are going to watch!!!

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Or maybe you don't have some of the channels that are on that website? :erm:

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Looks like it's about 348mb for 1 hours viewing.

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you'd be doing well as they're all freeview channels anyway!

anywho - what's with the 'Literal-Brigade' starting to come out? can't people inject some humour now without fear of mobbing? or does humour/sarcasm have to be followed immediately by a smiley to make it easy for people to get? jeez... :rolleyes:

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Thanks

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I think it mentions it in their T & C, but people should only be using this service if they have a valid colour TV kicence ;)

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You will definitely need a TV License to use the service.

Excellent,thank you mate!!

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True, however some people may not be able to get the transmission for some channels so this would be a great idea for them. Like here we cant get freeview at all and cant get channel 5 on normal TV. As for the standard 4 the picture is increadibly bad. luckily we have Cable but some might not be as lucky.

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Is it offline for anyone else at the moment? I'm getting a blank screen on all channels.

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Its working for me in Firefox on Linux.

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It's a pity it's not subscription then. I could have sold my login details :)

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Is your flash working properly?

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Flash is fine, normally I get any channel I like on there but when I click on a channel symbol, it's just black, as if it's buffering but it never starts.