When first started, there's a check on your IP address and origin, to check that you're allowed access to UK TV 'Freeview' streams (right) detailed programme information is available for each channel, both now playing and what's 'coming up'. There's a choice of high (wi-fi) and low (cellular) quality streams of over 50 'free to air' UK channels, all playing 'live'. checking that you are indeed in the UK, and it's touches like this which helped TV Catchup achieve its current respectable status. The application does check which ISP or mobile network you seem to be 'coming in from', i.e. This 're-broadcast' service for terrestrial UK TV has been in trouble with the law in the past, but that seems to be a thing of the past now, thankfully. Typical playback quality is pretty good, think 360p at 15 frames per second. The two faces of the Sky News application, including a 24 hour news video stream. The official offering from one of the biggest news corporations on the planet, the initial focus here is on textual content, but flick across in the panorama view to get the Sky News 'Live TV' stream: Typical playback quality (think QVGA, upsampled) - it's adequate at best, though is obviously dependent on the source stream.Īt any point during playback you can tap the top right of the screen to access more options, including bringing up the channel browser (in this case also showing a preview of video 'shorts' available on the selected channel). SPB TV has come a long way since its origins on S60 and Symbian (right) the initial, default channel picks.Ĭhannels are handily grouped (right) though the overall quality and applicability is quite low - witness the low star ratings given by users You can still stream France 24 (in English, despite the name) and Euronews though, plus niche streams like 'NASA TV'. In recent years the channel selection has got more and more culturally diverse, with fewer English language channels, presumably due to licensing issues. The interface is fairly slick, the buffering delays of the order of only about ten seconds when starting to play a channel, and you can even browse the channel guide during playback. This longstanding application ties into (in practice) a few dozen open TV streams from around the world, and uses a network of servers across the world to maximise throughput to its client software on all platforms. In each case, the application name is hyperlinked to its entry in the Windows Phone Store. ![]() With that in mind, what exactly are the options on Windows Phone? Do bear in mind that I'm talking from a UK perspective, mind you - I can't try out native TV stations/streams from other lands for obvious reasons, just as people outside the UK shouldn't (necessarily) be able to get hold of UK TV streams. ![]()
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