Great news iPhone and iPod Touch owners! TVCatchup – the UK’s brilliant online TV streamer – has just launched a huge bundle of new channels for their site.
Many more of the Freeview channels are now available to stream free, anytime.
Just some of the new channels include Channel 4+1, BBC Four, ITV3, ITV4 and Fiver.
The service is still totally free and works over 3G or Wi-Fi so don’t miss out!
Head straight over to iphone.tvcatchup.com to get started.
Big news iPhone and iPod Touch users – you can now get live TV in the UK on your Apple devices.
Before I explain and you explode in excitement, you need to head straight over to http://iphone.tvcatchup.com to get the service.
The service is in beta so you only get some of the Freeview channels, but all the big ones are up on there.
I’ve just tried it now and it’s absolutely brilliant. The service is apparently optimised for 3G and Wi-Fi, but I’ve just ran it through on Wi-Fi and it streams in harmony. I’m on a 2MB connection here and it loads up really quickly, and hasn’t buffered once in the last 15 minutes. Perfect!
This is another brilliant addition to the TVCatchup service. Perfect if you’re in need of some TV and you aren’t at home.
Great work TVC, I’m really looking forward to the final version, but for now the beta is way more than I need!
A little legal note: Remember you need a UK TV license to watch TV while it is being broadcast. For your own legal safety, make sure your license is up to date before using the service. Thanks!
Great news Spotifyers! The good people have posted up an update for their software on the iPhone and iPod Touch. I’ve just got my iPod Touch updated with the latest version and I am very pleased with the new release. It’s a big improvement on the last version and has fixed loads of bugs and niggles.
Here’s what has been fixed…
Overall I’m very happy with the update. The only thing I want now is to have the ability to run Spotify in the background, but that’s down to Apple more than Spotify really.
I finally got some funds into my PayPal account, and since Spotify recently started accepting PayPal payments for subscriptions, I decided to get my act together and buy a month of Spotify Premium.
I have to say, it is the best £9.99 I’ve spent in a hell of a long time. The premium subscription not only scraps the ads, but gives me unlimited access to the iPhone and iPod Touch app. I had to try it out, especially with the “Offline Playlists” feature.
And take my word for it, it is brilliant! I can save up to 3,333 tracks onto my iPod Touch, and listen to them anytime I want – no matter whether I’m connected to the net or not. So if I’m on the train, in the car, or sitting at the bus stop, I can listen to all my favourite tracks over and over without any connection to the internet.
It is absolutely truly and utterly worth the £10 it costs per month. I also get the new offline playlists for PC, but I doubt I’ll use that half as much as on the iPod. The loss of ads on the PC will be cool too. I don’t have to buy music anymore, and it’s 100% legal :).
If you have £10 a month available, and you love music, Spotify Premium is worth every penny!
I was reading through the Spotify blog today being a big user of Spotify, and I noticed that Spotify had uploaded a video to Youtube explaining what Spotify will do. It looks very good…
Looks like it’ll only be available for premium users but that is not big deal – premium is well worth it.
Ah well, I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Apple accepts the app. My predictions are that they wont accept it because, as far as I know, it doesn’t even link tracks to iTunes. But we’ll see.