Laptop TV in France

I'm going to be in France for part of the Olympics. Does anyone know if
one of the USB Freeview jobbies for a laptop (e.g.
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/tvonyourpc/) would work abroad, and if so
will I be able to get any English channels?

We were in France during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Frence TV
coverage was hopeless (hours and hours of fencing) so I was hoping to
take a laptop and stay informed.

Thanks

LR

LittleRob wrote:
I'm going to be in France for part of the Olympics. Does anyone know
if one of the USB Freeview jobbies for a laptop (e.g.
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/tvonyourpc/) would work abroad, and if so
will I be able to get any English channels?

We were in France during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Frence TV
coverage was hopeless (hours and hours of fencing) so I was hoping to
take a laptop and stay informed.

Thanks

LR

The only way you're going to get english TV in France is via satellite.
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On 29 Jul, 14:37, LittleRob wrote:
I'm going to be in France for part of the Olympics. Does anyone know if
one of the USB Freeview jobbies for a laptop (e.g.http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/tvonyourpc/) would work abroad, and if so
will I be able to get any English channels?

We were in France during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Frence TV
coverage was hopeless (hours and hours of fencing) so I was hoping to
take a laptop and stay informed.

Thanks

http://www.slingmedia.com/


LR

JPG wrote:
On 29 Jul, 14:37, LittleRob wrote:
I'm going to be in France for part of the Olympics. Does anyone know if
one of the USB Freeview jobbies for a laptop (e.g.http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/tvonyourpc/) would work abroad, and if so
will I be able to get any English channels?

We were in France during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Frence TV
coverage was hopeless (hours and hours of fencing) so I was hoping to
take a laptop and stay informed.

Thanks

http://www.slingmedia.com/

LR


Assuming you can get internet;

Nebula TV DTT receiver for the PC also allows you set up your own IPTV
server. I don't know if its any more or less reliable than the Sling
box, but does give good quality. Does seem to crash if you mess about
too much with bit rates and stuff.

You can set recordings, watch them, watch live tv all over the internet
from a PC with a browser. You do have to pay around $30 for the IPTV
software royalty for it to work for more than 1 minute at a time.

An alternative is to setup your own VPN and watch iplayer remotely via
your home connection.

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Tony

Tony wrote:
JPG wrote:
On 29 Jul, 14:37, LittleRob wrote:
I'm going to be in France for part of the Olympics. Does anyone know if
one of the USB Freeview jobbies for a laptop
(e.g.http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/tvonyourpc/) would work abroad, and
if so
will I be able to get any English channels?

We were in France during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Frence TV
coverage was hopeless (hours and hours of fencing) so I was hoping to
take a laptop and stay informed.

Thanks

http://www.slingmedia.com/

LR


Assuming you can get internet;

Nebula TV DTT receiver for the PC also allows you set up your own IPTV
server. I don't know if its any more or less reliable than the Sling
box, but does give good quality. Does seem to crash if you mess about
too much with bit rates and stuff.

You can set recordings, watch them, watch live tv all over the internet
from a PC with a browser. You do have to pay around $30 for the IPTV
software royalty for it to work for more than 1 minute at a time.

An alternative is to setup your own VPN and watch iplayer remotely via
your home connection.

---
Tony
Tony

I should have perhaps said that I'll be in a mobile home with no
internet. Well limited internet. I do have an O2 USB jobbie, but:

a) It doesn't give very high-speed when using Mobile-only (about 270Kbps)

b) It costs a ton of money (ISTR £1 per Mb) abroad.

I also don't have any pay-TV in the UK (Freeview only) so that probably
rules out a satellite receiver (as I suspect does the cost, but I
haven't looked).

Rob

....snip...

I also don't have any pay-TV in the UK (Freeview only) so that probably
rules out a satellite receiver (as I suspect does the cost, but I haven't
looked).

A Freesat/FTA system and portable satellite equipment. Not cheap so you
need to decide how often you'ld use it. Of course if you get a dish at home
too, you can use the receiver there when you're not off and about.

Beware of poor coverage in France though from UK directed satellites. There
are lots of sites with info. on required dish sizes etc.

Paul DS.

Paul D.Smith wrote:
...snip...

I also don't have any pay-TV in the UK (Freeview only) so that
probably rules out a satellite receiver (as I suspect does the cost,
but I haven't looked).

A Freesat/FTA system and portable satellite equipment. Not cheap so you
need to decide how often you'ld use it. Of course if you get a dish at
home too, you can use the receiver there when you're not off and about.

Beware of poor coverage in France though from UK directed satellites.
There are lots of sites with info. on required dish sizes etc.

Paul DS.
Paul

I had wondered about something like
http://www.towsure.com/product/15195...tellite_TV_Kit

(their smaller kit says for UK only) but as you suggest, at £135 its not
cheap (presumably I'd still need to get some more stuff to allow it to
work on a laptop rather than a TV) and I'm not sure how much I'd use it,
since its only for the Olympics and I can't say that we'd ever use it
again as on our "Normal" camping trips the idea of watching TV is anathema.

Rob

I dont know if Eurosport is covering much of the Olympics this time
but it is still free on the Astra 1 satellite at 19 degrees east in
analogue if you can pick up an old analogue box and a 60cm dish, the
rest is easy.

On 31 Jul, 00:54, widgitt wrote:
I dont know if Eurosport is covering much of the Olympics this time
but it is still free on the Astra 1 satellite at 19 degrees east in
analogue if you can pick up an old analogue box and a 60cm dish, the
rest is easy.

Forgot to say you could then feed it into a little LCD tv so long as
it has AV input. I just bought a 7" one with all of the leads and
power supply for £35 on ebay. You could probably pick up an analogue
sat box and dish for £10 or £15 if you look around

Adrian wrote:
LittleRob wrote:
I'm going to be in France for part of the Olympics. Does anyone know
if one of the USB Freeview jobbies for a laptop (e.g.
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/tvonyourpc/) would work abroad, and if so
will I be able to get any English channels?

We were in France during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Frence TV
coverage was hopeless (hours and hours of fencing) so I was hoping to
take a laptop and stay informed.

Thanks

LR

The only way you're going to get english TV in France is via satellite.
OK A revised question. If I got one of the Hauppauge USB devices would I
be able to pick up French TV in France? Do they use the same frequencies
and what not?

Rob