FilmOn IPTV Week logo Android owners are not well served for UK TV content. We now have a version of the BBC iPlayer after a long wait, and while ITV has released its ITV Player for the Googlephone OS, it's not very good. Other channels don't offer player apps. Morally, we ought to accept the situation gracefully. Given the dross …
A friend with iOS introduced it to me. Thing is, it stopped working for a bit, then came up as a different name on iOS with a lot more features such as a TV guide and red button. Us Android owners have to stick with this version, which isn't entirely bug free. It's random as to whether I get annoying regular glitches in the video, and obtaining full screen is a pain. You're lucky on Gingerbread if you can go full screen at all without the notification bar obscuring the top of the image!
So yes, it does work, for varying definitions of "work". Guess it's not too moan-worthy for free though.
If you go to the "Irish channels" section, you get two channels, BBC 1 and UTV, neither of which are Irish. You have to go to the task manager to close the app. I will probably continue to use the TVCatchup website unless FilmOn has a channel I want to watch that TVCatchup doesn't offer.
Perhaps the reason why BBC channels are listed as Irish channels is that such channels are available in Ireland by conventional broadcast means, i.e. satellite or cable (and possibly terrestrial too). Well, some Irish TV listings include BBC channels. So with this app they are attempting to provide the equivalent choice via their streaming service.
This was great when I was in Paris on business, as it doesn't check your location so I could watch UK telly in the hotel (Transformer with HDMI to hotel TV).
I've used it on and off for ages; it's always had that dirty "is this legal?" feel, but it's always worked. Can't see why the commercial channels would complain since you still see the ads.
What has being a PLC got to do with the legality of the service? Anyone with £50,000 capital can register a PLC. It doesn't mean that it is actually floated on a stock exchange. It certainly doesn't mean that the company has the correct licenses to carry third party content (I don't know whether they have or not).
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