SimpleSi Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 TVCatchup - Never Miss A Show Again Sometimes technology is great! Got shown it by an Iphone Fanboy ICTCo-ord in my wife's school today - it even streams OK over 3G Need to sign up and its got "interactive" adverts but hey -its free regards Simon
Marci Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 We use it to display TV on the plasmas in school... don't always get adverts... in fact these days I rarely see one at all when we connect. It used to be better tho - used to offer timeslip recording etc but they had to remove the service for legal reasons. They're bringing out an iPhone app soon, which will feature more channels... Web users get FAR more than iPhone users at the moment.
SimpleSi Posted February 2, 2010 Author Posted February 2, 2010 We use it to display TV on the plasmas in school. That must dent your bandwidth :0 regards Simon
SimpleSi Posted February 3, 2010 Author Posted February 3, 2010 I imagine that if you asked they TV companies/ programme rights holders - they'd say no But since these are all free to air services and all they are doing is re-broadcasting them .... regards Simon
Marci Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 That must dent your bandwidth :0 Not really... you'd be surprised how little it actually uses. And yes, it's 100% legal. They've been operating for several years now.
Daleus Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Tip: when changing channel and presented with a terrible renault advert, or some other timebomb - just hit F5 and it will refresh and just load the correct stream. *edit, only skip renault adverts - watch the rest*
SimpleSi Posted February 3, 2010 Author Posted February 3, 2010 Well its seems their lawyers certainly think its legal But I'd suspect that each stream would be on the order of 1Mb/sec unless there much cleverer than my ex-colleagues Or it'll be PP quality regards Simon
SimpleSi Posted February 3, 2010 Author Posted February 3, 2010 Last night on colleagues IPhone - it looked quite smooth and very impressive over 3G Today at school on a 10MBs/sec link its looks like its coming in at 8fps So maybe it doesn't use much bandwidth after all regards Simon r
chazzy2501 Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 The video doesn't seem to work through the SWGFL (RM) isp. I connected using the iphone at home last night and the website said "Congratulations your ISP Etranet is compatible" so does this service rely on ISP participation if so is it using some multicast technology?
Marci Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Last time I monitored it, it was using less than 100Kb/s to stream BBC... which is more or less same streaming rate I get when I do our own vids for streaming. So yes, your ex-colleagues obv aren't aware of how to compress for streaming properly. (1Mb/s for a video stream is comparatively ridiculous - anything more than 500Kb/s is ridiculous to be honest, unless you're streaming in HD) No, it generally won't work thru LEA connections as their filtering blocks it. We use our backdoor ADSL line. ISP questions - have a look in the forums at tvcatchup.com. There's a thread at the top in there that explains it.
mac_shinobi Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 TVCatchup - Never Miss A Show Again Got shown it by an Iphone Fanboy:) oi no swearing please !! lol
Domino Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Not really... you'd be surprised how little it actually uses. And yes, it's 100% legal. They've been operating for several years now. That's of course as long as you have a TV licence....
RichB Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Thats quite weird reading this post whilst watching E4 on it (on my iphone).... never seen an advert yet! Its great, quality streaming picture too. Might get some work done now!
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