Can you stream TV video from Europe? Meanwhile US blocks people

[Eurobabe]

Hey, can someone conduct an experiment for me and go to this link and see if you can stream a TV show from Germany? (I am just curious since the US (ABC, NBC, FOX) block everyone from outside the country. :mad:

Go here:

www.zdf.de, look for a tab on the right, 1st grey tab, click on zdfmediathek (it doesn't DL anything to your machine but opens a window) Look for 5th link: Sendung verpasst, look for any program in the window, an orange box with arrow, see if it will stream.

Let me know if you can stream, thanks!!

[mwooldri]

1. Dunno about Germany but for UK TV you need to do the following:

1) Get involved with a UK proxy, so that the services think you're in UK... This is dubious legally...

2) Subscribe to a service called thetelly.net - they pipe the TV over the net for you legally, you pay UK TV licence and 'net access and datacenter rent... you use the Slingbox as a "location shifter". This has been checked out to be 100% legit and you end up paying for the services correctly.

Mark.

[LSdemocrat]

2. Yes, I can on ZDF

I have an episode of "Die Rebellin" playing.

But the BBC seems to block about 90% of their online video content for US users.

[Eurobabe]

3. Thank you very much

for checking this for me. :hi: (BTW, I have watched Die Rebellin, it's a great little miniseries, but you have to understand German)

I wish more countries would do this, stop with the stupid digital rights management/blocking shit and let people learn ENGLISH!! Or French, Spanish, German! There is no way someone could "copy" and pirate a DVD from the types of streaming players they use.

I think the reason my German comprehension has skyrocketed is due to watching at least an hour of TV a day. Too bad my speaking abilities don't match my listening skills. :banghead:

Guess I need a proxy server. :eyes:

[GalleryGod]

7. I'll Proxy You, Sweetie!

:evilgrin: :smoke: :evilgrin:

[jxnmsdemguy65]

4. France 2 started doing that...

on their news broadcast (http://jt.france2.fr/20h/), then I sent an email to the cultural section of the French embassy in Washington DC, complaining that a valuable tool to my learning French was being blocked. A week or so later, I could view the broadcasts... might be worth a try.

[Eurobabe]

5. HA! And who would I complain to in the US?

The FCC? Sorry, I don't mean to be snarky, it's a money thing for the broadcast networks. Sometimes I think the US has a sharing problem. :shrug:

(I am a native English speaker, I am just ticked that I can't stream video while overseas.)

[geardaddy]

6. So did S4C (BBC Wales in Welsh)

I used to be able to watch live and saved episodes of all sorts of stuff. Now, I can't see nowt. :grr:

[MineralMan]

8. I just checked, and I can watch it, too.

I may add this to my daily watch list.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. If you get a region-free DVD player, you can order DVDs from anywhere in the world

and play them.

I don't want to go through the rigmarole of subscribing to The Telly, but it is annoying that I can listen to BBC Radio as easily as if I were in the UK, but I can't watch the latest episodes of Spooks/MI5 on BBC TV.

For fans of British TV, Amazon UK has wonderful deals. For example, you can currently buy the entire run of Inspector Morse for what U.S. retailers charge for a four-episode box set. Not all the DVD sets are such good deals, but when they're good, they're VERY VERY good. That's not to mention the fine programs that have never been released in the U.S. on DVD, such as Tenko, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Silent Witness. Shipping is reasonable and reliable.

The only frustrating thing is that Japan doesn't release many TV series on DVD and it's sometimes a puzzle as to why they release the ones they do. For example, when I looked for series from my student days in the 1970s, I found almost no dramas (some of which were quite good), but the full run of Okusan wa Juhassai "The Wife is Eighteen Years Old," a one-joke sitcom about a high school teacher married to one of his pupils, is available. Go figure. Oh yes, and Japanese DVDs cost 2 to 3 times as much as comparable U.S. DVDs, although all recorded media are really expensive there ($30 for prerecorded audio cassette albums in the 1980s).

[tigereye]

10. oh my God! You can get Dalziel and Pascoe???!!!

Swoon. I love the books and was thrilled to hear there was a series, although I have read that it wasn't quite up to the books. This is so exciting to hear! :bounce: I'll have to look for them ASAP!



( on edit, I am still pissed at Dexter about the end of Inspector Morse after all these years - the series with just Inspector Lewis isn't quite as good.)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. I first saw it on A&E back when that channel was still worth watching

but for years, it wasn't available on DVD even in the UK. The first two seasons of four episodes each are now available from Amazon UK, and there's supposedly a Dutch edition (English soundtrack with Dutch subtitles) of the third season.

As you know, Dalziel is hilariously raunchy in the books, so he has to be toned down even for British TV, but the series is still worth watching.

[tigereye]

12. I was afraid that I wouldn't like the way he looked, since I have this image

in my head. I love Dalziel - he's such a hoot. But hell, I've even grown to like Franny Roote, I've read so many of em...

Cool, thanks for the info! I love Hill - he's one of my favorite writers, not just mystery writers...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Here's what Colin Buchanan (Pascoe) and Warren Clarke (Dalziel) look like

[tigereye]

14. yeah, I looked at the pix on Amazon UK - I think they make sense...

I could see them both as the characters!


Curious- they don't have this series on Netflix, do they? I was going to order them, and then my h said, see if they are on Netflix first....(as my finger is poised on the order button!)


ps are you a mystery lover as well? Did you think the actress who played Barbara Havers made sense in the Inspector Lynley mysteries?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. No, as far as I can tell, Netflix has only DVDs that have been released in

Region 1 (US and Canada) or region-free editions.

The actress who plays Barbara Havers was not as I imagined the character, but I think she does a good job of capturing the working-class, unfashionable. insecure aspects.

I'm a huge mystery fan, especially of British mystery series.

[Eurobabe]

15. I have one already.

Plus I have a SlingBox to get US TV (with a TiVO for time changing) and I have European satellite. I just want to be able to watch shows that I've somehow missed recording.

It's time for a proxy I guess, I'm off to the computer group.

[rcrush]

16. I watched some Scottish News on Justin.tv

[kentauros]

17. I haven't tried this one, but it was recommended on DU recently

http://livestation.com/

Seems to have a good list of stations. Not everything, but stuff we won't see in the US. I see Deutsche Welle and something called "Euronews" in there :)

[GalleryGod]

19. Please just let me "Proxy" you for a little while,my EBSQ?!!

Hubba-hubba!O8)