14 Oct 2008 9:52 PM:

Myself and a friend who lives in Denmark have been looking into ways of receiving good quality Live UK TV without a dish and mesh or a hefty subscription for the past few months!!

What we found was that its possible to create a tunnel that allows your computer to spoof software and applications into thinking its really located in a different part of the world which in turn allows things like Zattoo UK, HULU, BBCiplayer, 4oD to run on your system! You can then use IR senders to send the signals to your TV so you can sit and watch LIVE UK TV on the sofa!

No massive satellite dishes, No wire mesh aerials, No illegal subscriptions that can be cut off at any minute and no huge bills for installation and monthly subscription!!


I won't go into too much technical info.. everything you need to know is on the website at: [vpnuk dot info] all you need to get started is a decent ADSL connection!

Regarding Proxies You can get round some websites like the iplayer by using normal proxies, unfortunately proxies are slow and cause a lot of buffer, they're unreliable and always prone to disappearing just when you need them most. Intelligent programs like Zattoo will not work at all under a normal proxy, it uses whats known as Geographical Location Awareness, in other words it ignores what your browser is saying and looks straight at all incoming and outgoing TCP connections, if you try it in Spain you'll only ever get Spanish TV, same applies to Germany, Switzerland, Denmark etc.. This is where the tunnel comes in, logging into the UK based VPN from anywhere in the world will give you the UK version of Zattoo, thats Live UK TV for free and its 100% legal!! BBC1 BBC2 BBC3 BBC4 ITV STV CH4 FIVE and loads more!! it even has regional BBC TV

Zattoo, iplayer and Hulu broadcast range are between 500-800KBPS using the H.264 or On2 VP6 codecs so its very high quality.

For more info and a list of downloads and what channels you can get take a look at the site: [vpnuk dot info]

For all the football you need try [footballstreaming info] its 100% free and works a treat!

This message was last edited by scudd on 10/14/2008.
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