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Yo! We have constant trouble with our cable TV, and to be brutally honest Canadian TV is awful (30mins of adverts per hour). I'd like to have the ability to somehow stream live TV from the UK, US, Canada etc onto my PC or the network. Would like to catch a fair bit of the upcoming chavball world cup. 

 

Is this at all possible? I'm currently setting up the RPi for XBMC in the hope that they've fixed it, so the ability to stream through the Rpi would be pretty swish also. 

 

I remember back in the day pci slot TV cards etc but i've heard very little about it since and all the websites advertising "free tv streams" are full of dangerous links. Cheers.

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I use tvcatchup, but I don't know whether you can get channels outside your own country besides news channels.

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I got some tv program that was straight bullshit. It just ran ads and when you clicked on a channel it would play another add on infinite rotation lol. So stupid.

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Due to archaic laws and other stupid stuff your options are limited. Even for free over the air channels. 

Companies cant stream them without paying billions in rebroadcasting fees. Billions of dollars for something that is already in the airwaves free. That's what the Time Warner thing was about recently.  One service, I forget what it is, has a pool of antennas leased out to who's on their service to avoid this. Stupid as hell. They are still hitting legal troubles. 

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I actually heard that on one of the recent wan shows. So using that tvcatchup would work in conjunction with a VPN?

Thorium do you need to pay a subscription for that site?

Cheers

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I actually heard that on one of the recent wan shows. So using that tvcatchup would work in conjunction with a VPN?

Thorium do you need to pay a subscription for that site?

Cheers

it's free to use, you just have to sign up for it. It doesn't have many channels on it in the UK, it's all freeview channels here, but it is decent.

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BTW I have a PCIe TV card :P

That was well before I bought myself a TV for my room.

But yeah, I don't watch regular TV anymore, (haven't for a long time) there's too many ads.

 

These days it's a lot easier to watch my favorite TV shows on the net. (which doesn't have ads.) 

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