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Vhero
23-02-10, 09:17
http://www.tvcatchup.com/

You have to sign up but well worth it if your on your laptop away from home or iphone and don't want to miss one of your favourite shows. Since they are free to air channels to they are legal to watch but you can only watch if you are in UK like with HULU.
tystar
23-02-10, 09:57
This has already been posted before but mainly as a iphone site to use.

http://forums.aria.co.uk/showthread.php?t=14030&highlight=iphone
gray.woodford
23-02-10, 10:14
In the Uk you can watch any streaming channel as long as it is on catch up and not being aired live without a TV license. I cancelled mine ages ago as I do not really watch much tv but when i want to just iplayer it or something similar.

I play too many games to watch that much tv. :)
Col
23-02-10, 12:26
If that worked in Windows Media Center, it'd be awesome.

Edit: Woohoo!
.Alan.
23-02-10, 13:06
How long is content available/viewable for?

There's plenty of stuff I've recorded as its unlikely to be repeated or released commercially.
tystar
23-02-10, 16:30
its more as a streaming of 'live tv'

eg. whats on ITV 1 now would also be streaming on the site too. just runs a couple of mins behind thats all.
cjac05
24-02-10, 14:57
Interesting, although the name is a bit misleading, since it makes it sound like you can watch programmes that have already been shown.

Actually, I see on their forum
No, because catchup is what the site was launched to do, what it did do, what it is intended to do again very soon

Although "very soon" may turn out to be several months or more.
.Alan.
24-02-10, 16:08
Think I'll just stick to recording my own stuff I want to keep then.
Vhero
25-02-10, 12:44
Think I'll just stick to recording my own stuff I want to keep then.
Ya I don't use it except for sky sports news if the wifes watching TV and its like football transfer market deadline or something. It's really handy for stuff like that.
tystar
25-02-10, 12:49
It's even handier on the iphone coz you needent miss your fav programmes on the way home from work or if your misses says you got to go pick the take away up etc.
:D
Funlester
25-02-10, 12:50
Can you get sky sports news on it tho?
tystar
25-02-10, 12:51
Can you get sky sports news on it tho?

Not on the iphone :(
Funlester
25-02-10, 12:53
:( what do you get then?
On the iphone that is?
tystar
25-02-10, 12:55
see here.
http://iphone.tvcatchup.com/