Tvcatchup.com Allows iPhone Users Access to 11 Live TV Channels

[Chris Barylick]

<div id="inlinead" class="inlinead"><IFRAME src="http://adserver1.backbeatmedia.com/servlet/ajrotator/13894/222/viewHTML?pool=13886&type=3158&pos=20&zone=5000" width="300" height="250" align="middle" frameborder=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 scrolling=no><script language="JavaScript" src="http://adserver1.backbeatmedia.com/servlet/ajrotator/13894/222/viewJScript?pool=13886&type=3158&pos=20&zone=5000"></script></IFRAME></div><div class="nodecontent"><p>A new web site has surfaced that allows users you watch live television via a QuickTime player in Safari. Per <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?RSS&amp;NewsID=27437" target="_blank">Macworld UK</a>, <a href="http://www.tvcatchup.com" target="_blank">tvcatchup.com</a> allows both iPhone and desktop conputer users to currently watch 11 channels - BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, ITV2, Channel 4, Five, BBC Three, Film4, E4, More4, and 4Music.<!--break--><br>The desktop site has more channels and the company says in its forums that it is working on bringing more channels to the iPhone site. The Desktop site requires that you register to watch; at this time it is not necessary to register to use the site on the iPhone. The site also works over 3G and WiFi protocols.<br><br>Adam Smith, Business Development, TVCatchup told Macworld this afternoon. "The TVCatchup service is independent in that we are not affiliated with any broadcaster. We have developed everything in house."<br><br>"The channels our service carries are licensed where necessary and the current selection is a small representation of the broadcasters we are working with. We are on target to have close to 100 channels on the service by the end of the year, including non free-to-air content."<br><br>"Not all of these channels are cleared for iPhone, but we will definitively be improving on the current 11 channels. The service - website and mobile - is cleared only for UK distribution."</p></div>

[Fixxer]

Bah.. Seems all the TV content sites are either US or UK based. I hate ip-filtering. :mad:

[Rackman]

I just tried to sign up on their website and it said it's only available to U.K. residents.

Any one know of a work around for this?

[iPhone4idiots]

If you want to watch TV on your iPhone try EyeTV, Orb or Slingbox. Why would you want this?? 11 channels? People that don't even have cable get 11 channels.

[jen729w]

If you want to watch TV on your iPhone try EyeTV, Orb or Slingbox. Why would you want this?? 11 channels? People that don't even have cable get 11 channels.

1. 11 > 0.
2. These are all UK channels and this is the standard digital offering in the UK. My parents - who choose not to have cable - manage to survive with these 11 channels. (Actually I think there may be a few more - I live in Australia now, haven't been home in a while.)
3. These 11 channels provide orders of magnitude more quality content than your 42,172 cable channels.

[steiney]

If you want to watch catchuptv in the US, just create an account and login all through a UK based proxy. I haven't actually tried this, but if they are using IP filtering, this trick should work. I think they rely on the fact that most people won't think of that.