mr luvpants Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Hi Guys We are subscribed to Foxtel as my wife needs her fix of the UK soaps! I am just wondering if anyone has a workaround so that you can watch UK TV on a TV? I know there are unblockers available but they mean that you have to watch UK programmes on a PC. Has anyone managed it? JOHN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Have you tried living in the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1977 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Download expat shield onto your computer. You can now stream uk tv . If you know someone with sky tv ask them for their sky go password , now you have full live sky tv on your computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritChickx Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Can't you just get a HTMI cable and connect it between the computer/laptop and the tv and watch it on tv that way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1977 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Yes but you still need expect shield to watch uk tv online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surf N Turf Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I like Hide My Ass IP blocking service as for a pretty nominal fee you can appear to be in loads of different countries, not just UK. I got hooked on Smash at one point and streamed it all from one of the US channels. Plus it all streams perfectly and I've had pretty erratic results on other blockers. Then as britchix says you just hook it up to your tv/large monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surf N Turf Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Have you tried living in the UK? Why on earth would you do that? You can get the tele, shopping and much of the food without all that drabness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Why on earth would you do that? You can get the tele, shopping and much of the food without all that drabness. Oh, ok, sorry I spoke.....(mutters to himself) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I like Hide My Ass IP blocking service as for a pretty nominal fee you can appear to be in loads of different countries, not just UK. I got hooked on Smash at one point and streamed it all from one of the US channels. Plus it all streams perfectly and I've had pretty erratic results on other blockers. Then as britchix says you just hook it up to your tv/large monitor. Me too!. It's the potato-free alternative to, erm, mashed potato. Goes great with Sausages (snags, see, I'm learning) chops (well I grew up in the 70's) and all manner of colon-threatening red meats. Bonza! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surf N Turf Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Me too!. It's the potato-free alternative to, erm, mashed potato. Goes great with Sausages (snags, see, I'm learning) chops (well I grew up in the 70's) and all manner of colon-threatening red meats. Bonza! If smash doesn't make a person proud to be British, I don't know what will. Other than spam of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 HDMI cable has been fine for us. We got a smart TV too so can see most of BBC and Channel 4 stuff on ABC & SBS players respectively without hooking up the cable. It all comes on over here eventually about 6 months after the UK but hay who cares i'm not living my life in front of the TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whichway1 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 This is the sort of thing that just makes me feel stupid. If you have a TV and you have foxtel why can't you watch UKTV on your TV? See technology has gone too far when a simple question like that doesn't make sense to the technologically non advanced:cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surf N Turf Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 This is the sort of thing that just makes me feel stupid. If you have a TV and you have foxtel why can't you watch UKTV on your TV? See technology has gone too far when a simple question like that doesn't make sense to the technologically non advanced:cry: Don't worry about it We've only over-complicated it in our house because we don't want to have a tv and so we stream the stuff we want to watch via our computer. I assume the OP wants to ditch foxtel and find a way to still access UK TV so he'll need to use his computer and make it look like he's in the UK (the IP blocker bit). Since you're in the UK you just have to switch the set on so no need to grapple with all this nonsense :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Man Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Hi, this seems like a good a place as any to ask... TV down under, what are the options and cost implications. In the UK we have freeview and Sky, freeview is erm Free, whereas Sky ironically costs the earth. How does that compare to Oz TV? Also I think I understand from these forums that my current TV won't pick up Oz channels, is that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akiralx Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Why on earth would you do that? You can get the tele, shopping and much of the food without all that drabness. Isn't it TV, shopping and food that is the drabbest thing about the UK? I don't watch much TV in Aus, it's even worse than in the UK (and that's saying something). I'd never pay for anything like Foxtel, so all there is is reality, cooking, house-makeovers and general trash. Very few interesting documentaries - and as for anything cultural, forget it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicolac34 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Hi, this seems like a good a place as any to ask... TV down under, what are the options and cost implications. In the UK we have freeview and Sky, freeview is erm Free, whereas Sky ironically costs the earth. How does that compare to Oz TV? Also I think I understand from these forums that my current TV won't pick up Oz channels, is that right? No, UK TV is formatted differently I believe so you need Foxtel to watch TV through it. Foxtel is more expensive than Sky (I think anyway) we pay $102 per month for everything apart from Movies + HD + ff, record etc (yes you have to pay extra for that here!). They have the digi boxes as well if you want to watch the free channels - but I'm sure they'll drive you nuts with the amount of advert breaks in them!! To watch UK tv we've downloaded UblockUs to stream things from the UK/USA - we hook it up to the TV using a HDMI cable, works really well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake max Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 http://www.uktelly.tv/ works perfectly try it not expensive for the year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIRK AND CO Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 watching uk tv on a TELEVISION what ever next technology is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicF Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 No, UK TV is formatted differently I believe so you need Foxtel to watch TV through it. Foxtel is more expensive than Sky (I think anyway) we pay $102 per month for everything apart from Movies + HD + ff, record etc (yes you have to pay extra for that here!). They have the digi boxes as well if you want to watch the free channels - but I'm sure they'll drive you nuts with the amount of advert breaks in them!! To watch UK tv we've downloaded UblockUs to stream things from the UK/USA - we hook it up to the TV using a HDMI cable, works really well. You don't need Foxtel to watch TV on a UK set, just a set top box, which is the equivalent to freeview. These can be picked up pretty cheaply and will pick up all the free to air channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joebloggs Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 I just download everything from torrent and watch it on either Smart TV, PC or iPad. Try thebox.bz for torrent listings or Torrentz.eu and download using uTorrent. It's pretty much free except you might need to donate £5 every once in a while to keep your ratio looking good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozziepom Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 If you don't want to attach a computer to the TV most newish games consoles can play iplayer, 4OD and the ITV one - you still need to pretend your in the UK, many of the unblockers have instructions on how to set up the console to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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