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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited December 2023
    We've got a firestick so I don't know what's FV and what's not but I rarely find anything to watch. Britbox is worth the money to me, though. 
    Is iPlayer on FV too?. I think I might have misjudged it.
    No signal problem here. Everything works with indoor aerial. It helps being near Crystal Palace.😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • We’re currently enjoying Mad Men on UKTVPlay.  We originally watched up to the end of series 3 when it first aired but then they went over to Sky or somewhere you had to pay so we stopped.  But now it’s freeeeee!  Very classy series.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    B3 said:
    We've got a firestick so I don't know what's FV and what's not but I rarely find anything to watch. Britbox is worth the money to me, though. 
    Is iPlayer on FV too?. I think I might have misjudged it.
    No signal problem here. Everything works with indoor aerial. It helps being near Crystal Palace.😊

    I think freeview is just a term for free-to-view terrestrial TV - so basically anything you can get through an aerial that is not subscription. I don't think the catch-up services are classed as freeview per se, but the terrestrial channels provide free streaming via an internet connection - so they can be easily conflated with freeview. I think that becomes freeview play. But it's all basically saying freeview (& play) is access to the free terrestrial aerial (and internet for play) services.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    So have I @floralies but not for over a year in my usual one.   I can get the beans in a local Carrefour and a Leclerc in La Roche and have stocks, for now, of golden syrup.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    @B3, iPlayer is the BBC's on-demand/catchup service, so you can get it on the internet, phone/tablet app and so on as well as on smart TVs and boxes/firesticks etc. There's no specific fee for iplayer but now and then it pops up with a box to tick to say you have a TV license. I don't know whether it checks that you really do have a license.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    floralies said:
    @Obelixx I have seen Heinz beans and golden syrup in E. Leclerc.
    What is this country (France) coming to, I wonder!
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There are compensations @Papi Jo and I couldmake my own perfectly acceptable baked beans with mogettes and home grown tomatoes but there really is no substitute for Golden Syrup.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • JennyJ said:
    @B3, iPlayer is the BBC's on-demand/catchup service, so you can get it on the internet, phone/tablet app and so on as well as on smart TVs and boxes/firesticks etc. There's no specific fee for iplayer but now and then it pops up with a box to tick to say you have a TV license. I don't know whether it checks that you really do have a license.
    I use my ipad for iplayer as my not-smart TV does not have it.  The fee is the TV licence.  Without a licence, you are not allowed to watch catch-up on iplayer, though you can watch Channel 4 or ITV catch-up (for example) without one. 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    My camellia has started to bloom.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Lizzie27. A pleasure to read your post. The TV ones are befuddling me.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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