worgeordie Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 (edited) Just had an email today that advised UKTV is back providing British Tv., downloaded the player, 14 channels, good picture and sound, no buffering (for me anyway) and it is free until 1st October, then it will be bht 800 per month. get the download here,scanned it with several engines and its clean, http://122.155.6.210/uktvsetup.exe regards Worgeordie Edited September 22, 2012 by Crossy Chnaged the validity date to 1st Oct as detailed in emails and website 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRed Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 what is there website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Yes, I got the same mail, not sure if the website is up yet. The player is still in beta and does have a few quirks but generally works well. It scores over the other offerings and use of a VPN by being very resilient on unstable but reasonably quick connections (like my hotel connection in Singapore). It pre-reads the data when the connection is good so it can bridge over periods of poor speed. A side effect is that live channels are delayed by 5-6 minutes, but IMHO that is a small price to pay for not seeing that annoying rotating thingy. The buffer on historical programming is a massive 15 minutes, once it's built up the buffer (which can be done by pausing the player and making a cup of tea) you can unplug your network for 10 minutes and not even a glitch, try that with a VPN The programme guide is a joy, and if you run in dual-screen mode you can view the video on one screen whilst choosing your next programme on the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2unique Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Will have to check it out. I couldn't run ThaiExpat TV with a 6MB TOT line! Sent from Android, please excuse errors in type or judgement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I am also trying it in Singapore, but Dumeter show it is drawing 4-6Mb/s. Since it is a real time feed it does not address the time zone issue At midday here, it is 5am in the UK and many channels are on boring Teleshopping. I will be in bed, asleep, by the time anything decent comes on.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Click on the little clock icon astral It's the programme guide for the last few days, choose whatever you like. It will go as fast as the link allows until the buffer is full, then throttle to maintain the buffer full. EDIT There's only 2 days of history at present due to a drive crash, IIRC should be 5 days in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokyoblond Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 thank you for that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TS79 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Great Utility, thanks for the heads-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01322521959 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Will have to check it out. I couldn't run ThaiExpat TV with a 6MB TOT line! Sent from Android, please excuse errors in type or judgement. Thai Expat TV is absolutely brilliant on True at 9mbs, but the HD movies hang. I am 100% happy with it, though. Bye bye UBC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Click on the little clock icon astral It's the programme guide for the last few days, choose whatever you like. Thanks, that is a useful feature. It will be interesting to see how the Record function works once it is activated. I love my tv programmes, but do not want to be tied to a time to watch. It will be interesting to see how this works once I get home to my somewhat shaky 2Mb/s link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 It will be interesting to see how this works once I get home to my somewhat shaky 2Mb/s link It excels at working on flaky connections. I had the previous incarnation working on a 1M connection in an Indian hotel, it needed a few minutes to get the buffer filled (go for a beer with the player on pause) but once running it worked well. Do let us all know how you get on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 OK I have found the "record" function. Any idea where it stores the data, and what format? Someone mentioned a price once it goes live, where did you find that? I don't see it on the web site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Robert Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Why cant i get it to work on ipad? Help please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Why cant i get it to work on ipad? Help please. An Apple app is coming, apparently Android will be first though. Mac users can use Parallels to run XP on their machine. @Astral, it will be 800 Baht a month when it goes live. Everyone (maybe almost everyone) who subscribed to the previous incarnation got an email saying it was back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalbanana Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 it will be 800 Baht a month when it goes live. So is this a Thai centric service with price in baht? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRed Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Crossy are you connected to this business? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Crossy are you connected to this business? I can categorically state that I am not connected with this business, other than knowing the chaps behind it and doing some beta testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 So is this a Thai centric service with price in baht? It's available pretty well anywhere with a decent internet connection, I believe they will let you pay in any currency you want Not sure about this incarnation, but the previous business model initially only supported PayPal payment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiang mai Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) That's a large bucket of beer for you the next time you're in my neck of the woods Worgeordie, many thanks. It works seamlessly on my 3BB ADSL connection at 10MB. Edited September 21, 2012 by chiang mai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007cableguy Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I used it for six months before it closed down in april and its the best TV product out here by a mile !...happy to see its back ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRed Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Crossy are you connected to this business? I can categorically state that I am not connected with this business, other than knowing the chaps behind it and doing some beta testing. Thanks,do they have a website up yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommoPhysicist Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 It works very well, downloads at my full bandwidth, 12kbps until the buffer is full, giving me a 15 minute buffer. Really impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morakot Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Since it is a real time feed it does not address the time zone issue At midday here, it is 5am in the UK A real time feed? I couldn't agree more, why would anyone bother. Who is this service aiming at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Website is here http://www.uk-tv.asia/ not much information there mind. It is not purely real time. Currently 2 days of stored programming from all 14 channels available to watch whenever you want (click the little clock icon) as well as the real time (delayed by 5 minutes) feed. I understand the plan is to have up to 7 days history available when the paid service goes live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morakot Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) Website is here http://www.uk-tv.asia/ not much information there mind. It is not purely real time. Currently 2 days of stored programming from all 14 channels available to watch whenever you want (click the little clock icon) as well as the real time (delayed by 5 minutes) feed. I understand the plan is to have up to 7 days history available when the paid service goes live. Yes, that would make sense, very much so. Thanks for the information Crossy. Any Linux capability in the pipeline? Edited September 21, 2012 by Morakot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 There is also www.uktv.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalbanana Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 There is also www.uktv.co.uk Which appears a completely different entity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordchild Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 so far so good, in fact i love it. simple to use and picture quality excellent. i just hope it lasts this time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommoPhysicist Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 (edited) Recording works too, right click on the 'timeline' to record. Now I need an Android app to use on my tab. Edited September 22, 2012 by TommoPhysicist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammycic Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 just tried it very impressed. when i clicked on dual screen computer crashed. anyone else have this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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