Movistar Internet TV

[alcanadakid]

We have just learned that Movistar has brought Fibre optic to our street and I am contemplating upgrading.

By looking at their website they appear to sell a box which will give all the BBC channels. It looks suspiciously like a Humax box. There was a similar claim a couple of years ago and there was some discussion on this forum. We purchased a Humax box and there were no BBC channels.

Normal you cannot get BBC on a Spanish IP address, unless you go through a VPN, which we do on our iPad.

We are now a couple of years on from the original discussion and Movistar claims, so I wonder whether the new box is something like a Humax box with a VPN incorporated.

Has anyone tried this or got an opinion?

 

[fil6699]

We have a box from DT media with our Phone and internet we get the TV free and we get everything all BBC ITV Chanel's channel 4, 5 plus a bunch of others. you can add packages for movies and catch up but all the TV channels are free . The phone and internet including Line rental plus 300 free mins to uk numbers plus free calls to Spanish numbers plus a number people can call from the uk direct to you and its a local call for them and free for you. The whole package costs 68 euro a month including tax and company are awesome English speaking English Bill via email and you never have to speak to Telephonica again lol. we have been with them for a number of years

 

[majprop]

fil6699.
Would you be good enough to p.m. me the contact details for DT Media.

 

[Molt de Renou]

Filmon

Hi,

Last week, Movistar installed a Fibre Optic internet cable in my apartment.

There is quite a big difference in upoad and download speeds compared to the normal ADSL system.

Best of all, I can now watch all the UK TV channels on my phone and tablet totally free of charge, and hope to soon on a new smart TV.

Worth trying FILMON TV FREE LIVE TV MOVIES AND SOCIAL TELEVISION

Cheers,

Molt

 

[Molt de Renou]

If it is of any help the website I use to check out the day to day tv programmes is
TV Guide UK TV Listings - UK's No 1 TV Listing site for Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, Freesat & BT Vision

Molt

 

[alcanadakid]

Hi,

Last week, Movistar installed a Fibre Optic internet cable in my apartment.

There is quite a big difference in upoad and download speeds compared to the normal ADSL system.

Best of all, I can now watch all the UK TV channels on my phone and tablet totally free of charge, and hope to soon on a new smart TV.

Worth trying FILMON TV FREE LIVE TV MOVIES AND SOCIAL TELEVISION

Cheers,

Molt

Presumably you are getting the UK channels through Filmon rather than a satellite box?

 

[Molt de Renou]

Correct.

No need for a dish, box or anything else.

Also not affected by bad weather or the powers that be "adjusting" the satellites trajectory.

Molt

 

[alcanadakid]

Correct.

No need for a dish, box or anything else.

Also not affected by bad weather or the powers that be "adjusting" the satellites trajectory.

Molt

One more question - do you access Filmon via an app on your TV, or through a browser? (We have a Samsung TV and not sure whether it has an app))

 

[Molt de Renou]

At the moment I am only use my phone and tablet.

To be able to watch on a TV I will need to buy a "smart" TV ( most of them are nowadays ).

Don't know about the App but can't be difficult. I am intending to go to the shops tomorrow so will find out.

Molt

 

[Molt de Renou]

I do understand though that you can buy a dongle ( Amazon, Apple ) that when plugged into the TV will pick up anything that you can watch on your tablet.

 

[alcanadakid]

I do understand though that you can buy a dongle ( Amazon, Apple ) that when plugged into the TV will pick up anything that you can watch on your tablet.

You can get Chromecast which is a dongle and allows casting from a tablet to a TV, but not everything can be cast. iplayer can't even though it should. Nor can sky go.( we access these through a VPN)

It is a bit of trial and error. For example our VPN works on our iPad but not our laptop . Iplayer will work from iPad to TV via an HDMI cable, but sky go won't

We have a smart TV bought in Palma, but it has mostly Spanish apps, hence my question. We have Samsung TVs in UK and Mallorca but pre installed apps are quite different and I haven't found a way of downloading others.

Other people's experience is valuable

 

[Molt de Renou]

Found this, may be of help.

Watch UK TV via the Amazon Fire TV stick

There is plenty more info in Google. You can also watch using a laptop or a PC

 

[Molt de Renou]

Using one of these seems to be the way to go: Google Chromecast

Molt

 

[alcanadakid]

Found this, may be of help.

Watch UK TV via the Amazon Fire TV stick

There is plenty more info in Google. You can also watch using a laptop or a PC

Tried that. Works in UK but not in Mallorca

 

[alcanadakid]

Using one of these seems to be the way to go: Google Chromecast

Molt

See my post above regarding Chromecast

 

[Molt de Renou]

What doesn´t work, the Amazon Fire Stick or the laptop ?

According to the comments published below the article about the Firestick, the best one to use is the Google Chromecast.

There are also special WiFi dongles for Samsung TV´s

I can envisage a trip to Media Markt sooner than later.

Molt

 

[alcanadakid]

What doesn´t work, the Amazon Fire Stick or the laptop ?

According to the comments published below the article about the Firestick, the best one to use is the Google Chromecast.

There are also special WiFi dongles for Samsung TV´s

I can envisage a trip to Media Markt sooner than later.

Molt

We have both the Amazon Firestick and the Google Chromecast which work fine in the UK. They are not the same and do different things.

When we took them to Mallorca - using the Amazon firestick it doesn't allow BBC channels and Amazon is not available even by using a browser. It is out of territory.

The Google Chromecast is only a casting device which allows what is played on a tablet to be played on a TV via wifi. However as I said before, not everything can be cast, only certain items. In the UK BBC iplayer can be cast from a tablet, but in Mallorca and using the same tablet it doesn't work. We can get iplayer on the tablet by going through an VPN. Our solution there is to use a long HDMI cable with a converter for the tablet (ipad).

Only the older smart TVs need a dongle and then you need to be very careful to make sure you have the right one as the dongle is specific to the model of TV. (I know because we bought the wrong one).

The latest smart TVs shouldn't need a dongle

To complete the story we also have a slingplayer which we connect to our sky box in the UK. We can then access everything on the skybox via a laptop/tablet in Mallorca. ( we then connect to the TV via a long HDMI cable) That way we can get all our channels including BBC and the pay channels on Sky. This seems the ideal solution, however we got a lot of buffering and pixelation with our 2Mb broadband. When we upgrade to the new fibreoptic in Mallorca it should be much better. However the connections from the slingbox to the sky box are only with video cables, not HDMI and therefore the picture quality will never be great. They do not currently produce a slingbox with HDMI connections. There is also a couple of seconds time lag in controlling the skybox which can be frustrating. The concept is good, but it needs developing.

 

[lollipop]

We watch Filmon on our Samsung smart tv. Went onto google and searched filmon. No problems.

 

[Molt de Renou]

According to the news, Movistar, and most probably others, are going to drop the flat rate and start charging per usage.

This will mean that people ( like me ) who use internet to watch TV and films will find it´s not as cheap as we had imagined it would be.

Will be interesting to see what the tariff´s will be.

Molt

 

[slipalong & lola]

DVDs

Slightly off piste and I apologies but is there anywhere to hire a DVD player in port? Needed for a couple of months.