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Is VPN a dirty word?

mik61ish

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Posted December 22, 2012 at 10:15PM

Is VPN a dirty word?

I am thinking of going VPN as I would like to look at UK television ie bbci ITV Channel 4 etc. To hook up a PC with HDMI and connect to my Panasonic 42" plasma. I can do it now with my laptop with HDMI using expat shield but the picture is not very good grainy! Would it be any better with a dedicated stand alone PC has anyone any experience in this set up? I live in NZ hence trying to get VPN

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rdave13

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Posted December 22, 2012 at 10:27PM

It's not a dirty word but to have the best I think you will need to fork out money. Sadly Governments are dedicated to stop this kind of thing. So much for WWW.

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Forum Editor

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Posted December 22, 2012 at 11:51PM

"Is VPN a dirty word?"

Not per se, but where UK TV content is concerned there are restrictions. The reason is that nowadays you mustn't assume that broadcasters like the BBC and ITV own the overseas broadcast rights to the content that goes to air in the UK.

Rights agreements are often structured so that the original production company retains the overseas broadcast rights so they can sell programming to other countries.

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Posted December 22, 2012 at 11:55PM

rdave13

"Sadly Governments are dedicated to stop this kind of thing."

Not so much the governments as the privately owned TV production companies which make the programmes. If you had just spent £20 million on a big drama series and sold the UK transmission rights to the BBC would you want people all over the world watching your work free of charge when you can sell it to the TV companies in lots of different countries?

No,you wouldn't.

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Sea Urchin

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Posted December 23, 2012 at 8:36AM

Might be worth a look -

UK TV everywhere

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wilsonj

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Posted December 27, 2012 at 11:49AM

The vpn software is easy to use, the speed of the internet connection is higher than you would need it. Only the price for a short usage time is expensive..

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danb79

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Posted January 17, 2013 at 6:42PM

Seem to be millions of these things out there now I did a free trial with http://www.laptoptelly.com, worked ok with iPlayer, ITV etc. you have to get a pretty fast one in some countries though so it doesn't buffer.

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danb79

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Posted January 17, 2013 at 6:43PM

Seem to be millions of these things out there now I did a free trial with http://www.laptoptelly.com worked ok with iPlayer, ITV etc. you have to get a pretty fast one in some countries though so it doesn't buffer.

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