Any experience of watching BBC I player on a Samsung smart TV?

[sungod]

As it says above, toying with the idea of buying a smart TV, very interested if anyone has some real experience of doing this,

Thanks SG

[Burl Ives]

Use a computer and get a UK VPN, worked for me for the last 3 years!

[sungod]

Yeah, can do that but I need a new TV and was hoping for a stand alone solution.

[srn89]

If you are in the Chiang Mai area you are welcome to come to my house and try a Samsung Smart T.V. which is connected to the Internet.

Message me if you are interested.

[Gregory Morozov]

There is no problem to connect Smart TV via VPN...

[sungod]

If you are in the Chiang Mai area you are welcome to come to my house and try a Samsung Smart T.V. which is connected to the Internet.

Message me if you are interested.

Appreciate your kind offer, however I am in BKK / Chonburi, do you use I player?

[sungod]

There is no problem to connect Smart TV via VPN...

Thx, any chance you could elaborate or point me in the right direction?

I would be very interested in your solution, post or PM me if you could,

[MJCM]

This may help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5HQKr54Tg

[sungod]

Thanks, very useful, do you know if its still current?

[MJCM]

Yes this still works, look at for example unblock-us.

http://www.unblock-us.com/how-to-set-up/

There are others, just use google with keywords like: smart dns + samsung tv or VPN + Samsung TV etc etc

Edited April 2, 2014 by MJCM

[sungod]

Excellent, many thanks, I was just looking at that funnily enough. What speed is your connection to get a good result?

I take it you have the TV set up so it thinks its in the UK to download the necessary iplayer app in the hub?

[MJCM]

No I don't use this, I use Expattv to watch UK TV https://www.thaiexpat.tv/index.php but you have to connect your PC to the TV to watch it, or buy the Android Box,

Ps: And No I am not affiliated or work for them

PsPs: If I was you I would try the Smart DNS solution for a month to see if it suits you, I used Hola (https://hola.org/ (which is free)) before, but I didn't like the buffering, for example watching 5 minutes and then followed by 2-3 minutes of buffering.

Edited April 2, 2014 by MJCM

[scotsman]

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/683303-samsung-smart-tv-smart-hub/ check out this thread.

Regards scotsman

[sungod]

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/683303-samsung-smart-tv-smart-hub/ check out this thread.

Regards scotsman

Nice one, thanks