BBC iPlayer available overseas?

Non-UK residents can't use the download version of the iPlayer, but does
anyone know whether the streaming version of the iPlayer is available to
people outside the UK?



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DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Non-UK residents can't use the download version of the iPlayer, but does
anyone know whether the streaming version of the iPlayer is available to
people outside the UK?

The streamed content is similarly restricted for identical reasons.

ESB

Ernst S Blofeld wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Non-UK residents can't use the download version of the iPlayer, but
does anyone know whether the streaming version of the iPlayer is
available to people outside the UK?

The streamed content is similarly restricted for identical reasons.


Can you still listen to the BBC radio stations and Listen Again streams
overseas:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/index.shtml?button


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The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/da...ion_of_dab.htm

"DAB sounds worse than FM" [email protected] wrote in message
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Ernst S Blofeld wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Non-UK residents can't use the download version of the iPlayer, but
does anyone know whether the streaming version of the iPlayer is
available to people outside the UK?

The streamed content is similarly restricted for identical reasons.


Can you still listen to the BBC radio stations and Listen Again streams
overseas:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/index.shtml?button

except when live (mainstream) sport is on, yes

tim

"DAB sounds worse than FM" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Non-UK residents can't use the download version of the iPlayer, but does
anyone know whether the streaming version of the iPlayer is available to
people outside the UK?



IIRC there are several (more than one anyway) that provode a UK identity for
ex-pats etc that wish to use these services.

AIUI they allow a internet connection (VPN I think) to their servers in the
UK which then pass the requests to the BBC etc.

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Paul S

"DAB sounds worse than FM" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Non-UK residents can't use the download version of the iPlayer, but does
anyone know whether the streaming version of the iPlayer is available to
people outside the UK?



IIRC there are several (more than one anyway) that provode a UK identity
for ex-pats etc that wish to use these services.

AIUI they allow a internet connection (VPN I think) to their servers in
the UK which then pass the requests to the BBC etc.

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Paul S
www.tvcatchup.com might be of interest. Don't know personally if it works
outside of the UK, but forum users claim to use it away on business. I'm not
quite sure how they avoid the wrath of the copyright holders, but they do
claim to be legal.

"Julian Thornhill" wrote in message
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"DAB sounds worse than FM" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Non-UK residents can't use the download version of the iPlayer, but does
anyone know whether the streaming version of the iPlayer is available to
people outside the UK?



IIRC there are several (more than one anyway) that provode a UK identity
for ex-pats etc that wish to use these services.

AIUI they allow a internet connection (VPN I think) to their servers in
the UK which then pass the requests to the BBC etc.

--
Paul S
www.tvcatchup.com might be of interest. Don't know personally if it works
outside of the UK, but forum users claim to use it away on business. I'm
not quite sure how they avoid the wrath of the copyright holders, but they
do claim to be legal.

some time over my Christmas holiday they started to block people from
foreign IPs.

tim

I got info from www.consult-here.com/BBC.html
they describe 3 different ways to overcome the problem. I have tried 2 of
them and they work for me - from Spain and when I was on a recent trip to
the US.

url:http://myreader.co.uk/msg/124332349.aspx

The bbc have made a pigs ear of the new player anyway, as they now find most
blind users cannot use the skip to forward and back buttons and are now
redesigning it to comply. This despite supposedly consulting for this sort
of thing. It seems the developers ignored advice and they are now being
threatened by disability organisations.

Also, I do get so annoyed with bbc pod casts having chunks missing due to
rights or licensing issues. Grr.

Brian

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"Roger Wilson" wrote in message
.. .
I got info from www.consult-here.com/BBC.html
they describe 3 different ways to overcome the problem. I have tried 2 of
them and they work for me - from Spain and when I was on a recent trip to
the US.

url:http://myreader.co.uk/msg/124332349.aspx

....snip...


Also, I do get so annoyed with bbc pod casts having chunks missing due to
rights or licensing issues. Grr.


For the last World Cup I tried to listen over the internet at work. All was
well up until kick off at which time the sound stopped. Real Player
indicated there was a stream, but it was simply silent. They didn't even
bother with a "sorry, but we can't broadcast this because..." message :-(.

Paul DS