Free satellite TV via internet

[whiteoaks7]

Anyone have any experience of the "free" satellite TV via internet:
http://www.secret-satellite.com/ Does it work? Does it work in all countries? Does it work across wifi to a laptop? Any other answers to questions I can;t think of right now . . .

Cheers, Dave

 

[Danny]

They don't seem to offer a free trial and the screenshot doesn't look very impressive. I notice that the streaming rate is 312K bits/sec. Wouldn't think that this would give much bandwidth for a decent picture in full screen mode.

Probably be OK for getting the news and weather but I don't think you'd want to watch a movie on it.

 

[simonfraser]

yes it would work on wifi, that link is plenty fast enough

the prob is they don't send it to your router fast enought for the pic to be good

 

[l'escargot]

I don't know this one specifically but have used similar. Don't expect an endless list of Sky type channels, they are generally fairly obscure free channels with a few like Parliament 24 chucked in.

 

[Richard10002]

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I notice that the streaming rate is 312K bits/sec. Wouldn't think that this would give much bandwidth for a decent picture in full screen mode.

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Slingbox provides a great picture once you get up to 300Kbps, and a watchable one, (not full screen), down to around 150Kbps.

Over the years I've tried a few of these free TV on the internet things, and I guess so many people log on that you dont get enough bandwidth to get a decent picture.

 

[MarkJohnson12345]

I tried one a couple of years ago.

They seemed to be more interested in showing porn than TV.

Mj

 

[Birdseye]

the answer is a sat dish and a decoder that has been hacked. trouble is, where do I get one?

 

[alan]

Not a free one but www.liveuk.tv offer a good service. You subscribe monthly, so you can just subscribe for the period of a holiday for example. Also, you can "buy" just a particular sporting event. The streaming worked fine for me even at 300 Kb/s; this seems slow in bandwidth terms but in practice because of buffering e.t.c. it works really well.

As I said not free ..................... but

Alan.