 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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What a hilarious article. It starts with a headline that has 4*12 = 52 then gets funnier.
I particularly like this bit
After complaining about UK TV viewers buying a TV licence
"Foreign viewers are not offered live streamed content, radio or an identical catch-up service to that which is available in Britain."
In other words, as any student would tell you, exactly what you get in the UK if you do not buy a TV licence. But you have to pay for it.
I am not sure how the price compares with what the UK proxy servers charge you for appearing to access the internet from inside the UK, but I suspect the BBC is undercutting this market.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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johnE, I guess a large % of Ex pats have sky multi-room anyway 
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Not clicking on a daily wail article.
I think I pay just over a tenner a month for a VPS. That's mainly for other purposes (web servers, irc server...), but a side effect of that is that it will happily access iPlayer, and also get round the GEMA cartel block on about 60% of youtube (ie anything that sounds like it might have music in it). iPlayer radio seems to be free overseas, although I've only listened to a few things (mainly Fags, Mags and Bags).
I'd pay a tenner a month to get the full set of BBC/ITV/C4/C5 channels that are generally free to air, although they all seem to fall off a satellite straight in to my TV that has built in DVB-S receiver.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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andy, I get it all free on my PC and iPad using FilmOn and another app - if one is playing up the other is OK. Fine for the hotel the nights I'm not at home. As boredsurfin surmises, I am one of the ones with a sky Card as I'm too far east for it just to fall into my lap. Not a multiroom one though, I use a proxy address in the Channel Islands! 
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If you are a licence fee payer is it possible to get the services overseas ? If not it should be.
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Yeah 80cm dish is quite sizeable, works here, but signal drops out in heavy rain or snow. Not a problem when it quite happily comes thru the intawebz line as well.
Had a $ky sub too, but binned it, since 99% of what I watched was on the "free" channels. And the 1% was Mythbusters etc. when channel hopping with naff all else on.
Crazy the efforts they go to with Geo-IP blocking nonsense when it's so easy to bypass. And it's quite enjoyable flicking V's at GEMA.
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Oh and if you fancy a gamble...
With a UK phone, when 3G roaming, you'll find that your IP address is the same as it always is back home. Hence access to iPlayer etc. exactly as if you were in UK.
Friend tried it with a company provided corporate phone on some corporate contract, and the bill was the exact same £50/month that is always is, after a week of watching UK telly in Lanzarote on the tethered iPad.
Retail customers might get royally screwed though, and the €50 max limit is only applied for EU roaming.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Haha yep used to do the 5 Live trick in Holland. Now use it when F1 is live on RTL. TV delay relative to the radio is not too bad, but you do get a 1sec warning of a crash, or a goal, or a wicket, etc.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The wall socket in our apartment building here in the south of France offers every resident BBC 1 and BBC 2 as standard (along with some German channels). Have seen this before in French self-catered tourist apartments so must be fairly easy for them to do.
Also pay for a VPN at around 50$ per year but that's mostly to access Ukrainian drawf-goat p0rn.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You can watch most things that you'd want to (a couple of hours after they've aired on TV) on http://watchseries.lt/ and similar.
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torrent - within 10 minutes of showing for top programmes.
Friends in US and Bulgaria will be watching Dr Who before the Brits that have just watched it have even made a cup of tea.
There's one way to cut down on such piracy... show such popular programmes worldwide on the same day (or next day if its US show in EU), not 6 months later.
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You know it makes sense.
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albinomountainbadger,
Dwarf-goat p0rn - EEEEuch.
That's disgusting
What's wrong with full-size goats, sicko.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Acacia, the big ones make me feel inadequate.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I guess a large % of Ex pats have sky multi-room anyway
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Don't know what this is but its not available here. Here you can pay for BBC Canada which is crap, no decent shows at all just rubbish. So this looks like a good deal.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry but I don't really miss any of those things
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Idris, the porn you mean?
I agree, it doesn't do *any* harm to not have access to UK channels, it is 95% crap but that's the great thing about the VOD services online. If you time it right there are ridiculously cheap VPN services out there allowing one to access services in any country. I've been a subscriber to HideMyAss for a few years now and can't fault it, even works on my mobile. Only realised this summer though that they have a 'summer sale' where subs are half price so that's clearly the best time to buy; worked out at 12 months for about £2 a month I think.
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| Idris wrote: |
| Sorry but I don't really miss any of those things |
Not even Top Gear 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| albinomountainbadger wrote: |
| ... dwarf-goat p0rn. |
how low can you get?
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FAQ
I'll try again later this week when I get home and fire up the home PC again, but I suspect they will fail again and be removed.
