Whats going on with freeview uktv
Monday, August 26, 2013 @ 7:31 PM

Astra 2E was sheduled to launch on Friday, July 21st the launch was delayed untill

September 15th 2013

The BBC has confirmed thier plans to move their services from Astra 1N to Astra 2E

The overspill of the BBC services will be reduced so viewers outside the uk will find it

hard to receive them.

Astra 2E will have the same uk footprint as Astra 2F

So if you can currently view channels from 2F there should be no problems receiving 2E

How will these changes affect viewers overseas?

There have been lots of rumours doing the rounds that overseas viewers will lose

all there channels once these changes are complete

There is no reason for sky to opt for the UK spot beam

There channels are encrypted and there are no copyright issues

Many expats have legal subscriptions registered to a UK address

and lots of bars have Sky Sports, these are all income for Sky.

It seems unlikely Sky would want to lose this Income.

As for main terrestrial broadcasters, the BBC,ITV,Channel 4 and 5

these will be using the UK spotbeam on Astra 2F and 2E

So is this the end of free tv ?

NO but you will need an internet conection of 2mb or more

You can use www. filmon.com or www.catchuptv.com and connect your tv to computer

Connect your computer to a TV

To connect your computer to a TV, your computer needs to have an output port that matches one of the input ports on your TV.

Illustration of VGA, DVI, composite video, S-Video, HDMI, and component video connections

For HD TVs

hddWhat you'll need if you have an HDT

If your computer has this type of output port	It should work with this type of TV input port	Using this type of cable
HDMI	HDMI	HDMI to HDMI
DVI	DVI or HDMI	DVI to DVI or DVI to HDMI
VGA	VGA	VGA to VGA

The following scenarios show you how you can connect a computer to a standard-definition TV:

If your computer has this type of output port	It should work with this type of TV input port	Using this type of cable
Composite video	Composite video	Composite video to composite video
S-Video	S-Video	S-Video to S-Vide

or you could opt for an IPTV box which streams content via your internet and connects via

HD lead or Audio video lead, I have found a few of these and the best i have tried has 70 channels

including sky sports, 5 sky movie channels and asorted ch like Gold and Dave, works great on a 2 meg line

The best option i have found sofar is an linux based box that comes with filmon already installed

I get all my sky channels via dish with card or via a server

with added features like movie select n play and of course BBC and ITV iPlayer,

was watching, We’re the Millers; last night good quality (very funny film by the way)

Try contacting thetvcompany@gmail.com or visit there web at www.thetvcompany.net

If any one has any questions i will do my best to answer them,

Going to be testing a download called XMBC over the next few weeks

XBMC is a Media Centre which can be installed to Mac, Windows, Apple TV, iPad, iPhone, Android, and Linux. Among it's many features is the ability to Watch Movies and tv.

will let you know how i get on

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help with uktv

Connect your computer to a TV

hddWhat you'll need if you have an HDT

or you could opt for an IPTV box which streams content via your internet and connects via

HD lead or Audio video lead, I have found a few of these and the best i have tried has 70 channels