What platform gives me all catch up services

With sooooo many choices of buying hardware that offer catch up TV
services does anyone know of a bit of kit that will gives me all catch
up TV channels iPlayer, itvplayer, 4od, 5demand.

Right now i have TV that gives me iplayer, Humax Freesat that gives me
ITV player as well as iplayer and if i want anything else it has to be
done via PC into the back of the TV with HDMI which is OK but not ideal,
the problem is I'm running out of damm HDMI sockets (I have 4)
Humax Foxsat, WD TV Live, DVD and PC.

Plus I'd like to avoid a monthly subscription to anything, I don't mind
paying out for new stuff but hate subscription stuff.


Jim

On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 01:55:25 +0000, Jim
wrote:

With sooooo many choices of buying hardware that offer catch up TV
services does anyone know of a bit of kit that will gives me all catch
up TV channels iPlayer, itvplayer, 4od, 5demand.

A computer.

Rod.

On 30/12/13 01:55, Jim wrote:
With sooooo many choices of buying hardware that offer catch up TV
services does anyone know of a bit of kit that will gives me all catch
up TV channels iPlayer, itvplayer, 4od, 5demand.

Right now i have TV that gives me iplayer, Humax Freesat that gives me
ITV player as well as iplayer and if i want anything else it has to be
done via PC into the back of the TV with HDMI which is OK but not ideal,
the problem is I'm running out of damm HDMI sockets (I have 4)
Humax Foxsat, WD TV Live, DVD and PC.

Plus I'd like to avoid a monthly subscription to anything, I don't mind
paying out for new stuff but hate subscription stuff.


Jim

A Blu-ray player. The (relatively old) SONY BDP-S370 covers your basic
selection, plus Sky News, Lovefilm, and many others. The latest models
will stream from PC as well!

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Jim wrote:

With sooooo many choices of buying hardware that offer catch up TV
services does anyone know of a bit of kit that will gives me all
catch up TV channels iPlayer, itvplayer, 4od, 5demand.

YouView. I highly recommend it. Not perfect, but still the best, in
my opinion.

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And Really and and ..
No.
They all need their heads knocking together and somecommon accessible easy
to understand interface created.
Brian

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"Jim" wrote in message
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With sooooo many choices of buying hardware that offer catch up TV
services does anyone know of a bit of kit that will gives me all catch up
TV channels iPlayer, itvplayer, 4od, 5demand.

Right now i have TV that gives me iplayer, Humax Freesat that gives me ITV
player as well as iplayer and if i want anything else it has to be done
via PC into the back of the TV with HDMI which is OK but not ideal, the
problem is I'm running out of damm HDMI sockets (I have 4)
Humax Foxsat, WD TV Live, DVD and PC.

Plus I'd like to avoid a monthly subscription to anything, I don't mind
paying out for new stuff but hate subscription stuff.


Jim

Yes, well, its hardly a transparent system is it?

Each site has its own challenges to operate. I find it really daft that
they cannot just present a simple textual based selection of what you want
all delivered via a standardised stream handler.
Its just completely daft as it is. I can sort of get BBC to work, 4 OD
gives me far too many choices when I know what \i want, so much in fact that
I can't see the wood for the trees, and most of the others do silly stuff
like get annoyed if i have an add blocker, and offer flash or other
interface which has no way to operate it without the mouse.
I dispair at who actually writes this crap.
Brian

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On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 01:55:25 +0000, Jim
wrote:

With sooooo many choices of buying hardware that offer catch up TV
services does anyone know of a bit of kit that will gives me all catch
up TV channels iPlayer, itvplayer, 4od, 5demand.

A computer.

Rod.

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
...
Yes, well, its hardly a transparent system is it?

Each site has its own challenges to operate. I find it really daft that
they cannot just present a simple textual based selection of what you want
all delivered via a standardised stream handler.

I find it daft that I have to "log in" to watch catch up.

just what the **** do they do with the fact that
has watched an episode of Midsomer Murders?

tim

In message , Roderick
Stewart writes
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 01:55:25 +0000, Jim
wrote:

With sooooo many choices of buying hardware that offer catch up TV
services does anyone know of a bit of kit that will gives me all catch
up TV channels iPlayer, itvplayer, 4od, 5demand.

A computer.

Rod.

A Freetime sat box.
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 01:55:25 +0000, Jim
wrote:

With sooooo many choices of buying hardware that offer catch up TV
services does anyone know of a bit of kit that will gives me all catch
up TV channels iPlayer, itvplayer, 4od, 5demand.

Right now i have TV that gives me iplayer, Humax Freesat that gives me
ITV player as well as iplayer and if i want anything else it has to be
done via PC into the back of the TV with HDMI which is OK but not ideal,
the problem is I'm running out of damm HDMI sockets (I have 4)
Humax Foxsat, WD TV Live, DVD and PC.

Plus I'd like to avoid a monthly subscription to anything, I don't mind
paying out for new stuff but hate subscription stuff.


Jim

I use a Panasonic recorder to record every program I may want to
watch. It can be setup to do all the recording automatically. It works
even if the transmission changes day or time. That way I don't need a
catch up service. The only problem is that I have about 200 hours of
TV to watch!

Steve

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On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:49:37 +0000, brightside S9
wrote:



Try
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/t...s/BD-F8500M/XU
and throw away the DVDplayer.

Other manufacturers make similar products.

Just ordered one of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BYUGN6...038051_TE_dp_1
The Amazon price has dropped this week.