UKTV on a PC

[Relaxed]

Can't help with the tvcatchup site, but gromit pointed me towards the iportal.me site which is a paid for proxy server at £5 per month (or £50 a year): even good for holidayers because you can just buy a month's subscription.

This simply pretends you are in the UK so you can watch UK TV (certainly the BBCs) live, or anything on BBC iplayer or C4OD. I've never felt the need to try out the ITV offerings, or figure if I can do C4 live, but voices say that the BBC and C4 feeds are pretty solid, and ITV less so. The robust thing about paying this small sum for your proxy (for sure there are free proxies) is that you are directly onto a fast UK 'node' so buffering even on live stuff is rare.

[gromit]

Originally Posted by Colina

Picking up on an old thread here, but does anyone know if this site works in Italy to watch UK TV channels.

http://www.tvcatchup.com/channels.htm

tvcatchup will not work with any Proxy Servers (iPortal, tvconnect etc) as it is bound by licenses which prohibit Broadcast outside UK. So unless your IP is in the UK and not a proxy then you can forget TVcatchup.
By connecting to iPortal you can use any BBC, ITV, Channel 4/5 iPlayer that gives you access to all their live and stored programs, the same as if you were in the UK; they don't seem to mind proxy servers.
http://www.iportal.me/