Guide to streaming live TV from your iPhone/iPad

converse_uprise · 5 Sep 2010 at 17:50

Just a quick guide on how to turn your iPhone (or iPad) into a portable tv.

First of all, go to http://www.tvcatchup.com/ and click signup. Set up a username and password, etc.

Now go to http://iphone.tvcatchup.com or ipad.tvcatchup..... on your phone/ipad

Click on the + sign, and then select "add to homescreen"

Now you will have a nice little app that looks like this

Clicky click click, sign in, choose which channel you want to watch andd...

Magic.

Best thing about this is you can stream basically most freeview channels over 3G aswell as wifi.

Hope this helps a few people that wasn't aware of this.

oli356 · 5 Sep 2010 at 18:17

Isn't everyone aware of this

Half the channels on iPad not been working for the last few weeks.. things like dave, virgin 1 etc

alfalavala · 6 Sep 2010 at 18:37

I did not know about that add to home screen feature. I guess I've just been ignoring it! :S

This is great!

Alfie · 6 Sep 2010 at 18:47

It's not really a feature, it's a bookmark

Meatball · 8 Sep 2010 at 13:48

Thanks for this. Is the footage live? I assume it's just a transcoded Freeview stream?

tonym · 8 Sep 2010 at 14:20

Meatball said:
Thanks for this. Is the footage live? I assume it's just a transcoded Freeview stream?

It's a few seconds to a few minutes delayed over 'live' TV.

Don't rely on it for anything important to watch though, it was dreadful during the World Cup as it was getting hammered. They may have sorted out whatever bandwidth\server issues they had now though.

Gadge · 8 Sep 2010 at 15:34

Stream FROM iphone? I got excited then, but realised you mean TO.