UK TV in France

[Wilbro]

@beejay spot
Quite right! It's my age you know

[ihatew0rk]

Thanks again, I'll try the local one when we can next get over!!!

[elsie]

Hi, I'm sure this has been covered but I can't find the topic. I want to watch UK TV when visiting France, I've tried VPN and still get blocked. We have unlimited fibre via Orange so straeming is easy. Can you please help me with best way to watch?

BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All4, etc need separate accounts. To install them on an Android phone you need to have a Google Play account with the location set to the UK. If you run them in a PC web browser you still need a VPN with a UK IP address. The streaming services do checks to make sure you are in the UK and they know of and block some UK VPN servers (some VPN providers, e.g. NordVPN, give lists of their servers known to work with iPlayer). From my Firestick experience, All4 also checks the device time to be set to the current UK time. When I've tried to use the ITVHub the server has often been overloaded so lots of breaks in the viewing while it loads the next part. There are also various restrictions on recording and playback.

Receiving through a satellite is the best way. See this discussion for more information viewtopic.php?p=14076#p14076

[ihatew0rk]

Thanks again Elsie

[beejay]

Hi, I'm sure this has been covered but I can't find the topic. I want to watch UK TV when visiting France, I've tried VPN and still get blocked. We have unlimited fibre via Orange so straeming is easy. Can you please help me with best way to watch?

If you want UK TV without a recording facility the Manhattan Freesat box very small and costs £50.

[ihatew0rk]

Thanks beejay. I had looked at that one on Amazon and thought it looked good for the money

[Yonner]

We're at the top of bourgogne, and use a 60cm dish, a cheapish LNB, and an old sky decoder - £10 with a remote from Ebay Uk. All works with no mither, but we don't record - sometimes wish we could!!
If you're in France permanently, I can see that being a requirement.

[Wilbro]

If you want to record something this will let you but only a single programme up to an hour although you can pay for more if you want. we've used it no problem https://www.filmon.com/dvr/

[basquesteve]

Hi

I live down south 64 for the last 8 years the only way to receive UK telly has been via a VPN just at 2mb its possible to down load BBC I player but at 12.5 mb it so easy to watch all uk channels live I use Nord vpn never had a problem there are other ways with out a vpn but just live for example http://www.freeintertv.com/Main/ https://www.streamtv.co.uk/

[Bayleaf]

If you have the space/capacity for it, I'd recommend getting a 1m dish. It's not much more price wise, and it gives you maximum "capture" from the start. Then, even if you live in a valley, like us, you'll still get excellent quality and choice. We even get "Dave" these days - a much needed comedy channel!