Please click on the above image so you can read it properly.I just had a bit of a useless rant at abc for not letting me watch their programs for free because I'm outside the US and thought I'd share my frustration. It would be interesting to see if people outside the UK are able to watch 4oD or the ITV on demand service which is coming out soon. If you're not from the UK, or know someone who isn't and would be able to help out - would appreciate knowing if they can get our VOD services to work.
*grumbles* Stupid American broadcasters...
-tobeconfirmed-
*update - thanks for all the feedback guys - I realise quite a few people end up on my blog looking for solutions. It seems you're able to get around some VOD services by using a proxy. Check the comments to this post for a simple explanation of how to use 4OD from outside the UK*
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It's interesting isn't it - in some ways they are embracing the web and that but in others they completely miss the point of it being world wide and that.
The idea of content release windows in different regions still plagues us, despite the beauty of bit torrent.
When I heard they were including region encoding in Blu Ray I was a little sad inside.
'When I heard they were including region encoding in Blu Ray I was a little sad inside.'
I wouldn't be too sad... about the best movie available on BD at the moment is Layer Cake... and you can get that rubbish movie for about £3 on DVD.
You can pick up Mission Impossible III for £30 on the high street though! Wonderful!
neither work in france
Thanks for letting me know.
Cheers
Nope.. I spend part of the year in the US and can't watch anything on 4Od.
No, unfortunately the 4oD player, the ITV player, and the BBC iPlayer have software to detect which country you are accessing from, and so they only limit it to the UK, for legal reasons apparently. It's annoying, since I'm a UK citizen doing a sandwich year in France and so am missing out on all of my favourite programmes! Have yet to find a way of getting around it....if i do though, I'll let you know!
there must be some way of bypassing the geo-software. i don't know much about it but i have heard that it is possible to hide your proxy address by entering via a proxy service - if you use a UK proxy service then this might bypass the geo-software, and ditto US. maybe if you google how to hide your IP address address when using internet or something as a starting point.
how to watch bbc iplayer outside UK:
1) use firefox as your browser.
2) install firefox add-on "switch proxy"
3) go to options of said add-on and install this new proxy,as a standard proxy:
HTTp Proxy - 212.85.28.123
Port - 3128
use said proxy to connect to internet. now as for itv they seem to use a stand alone application to play video and as far as I can see changing the browser proxy will have no beneficial effect.
HULU.com
is the 4od service in the US i dont know if that helps.
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