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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: Roobarb on Saturday 12 May 18 17:26 BST (UK)
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For some time now I've successfully watched programmes on the ITV Hub via my Fire TV stick. However, there's a particular item I wanted to watch on an episode of This Morning that was broadcast this last week but when I look for This Morning in the search, nothing comes up. I was going to try looking via the Channels heading but it asks for my postcode, I'm not willing to give this unless absolutely necessary. (A personal gripe of mine, I get sick of every organisation in creation trying to gather personal data!) I've never entered my postcode previously and until now hadn't had any problems with it.
Any ideas please anyone?
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Hi Roobarb when we have this problem we put in a London postcode like SW1 and it works.
Hope it does for you too.
Happy viewing
Dorrie
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Oops just spoken to my daughter and she has corrected me.
Please try SE1 7BP
Dorrie
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Thanks Dorrie, I did think of putting in a postcode that wasn't mine, had in mind somewhere a bit more local than London. :D My curiosity got the better of me so after checking the postcode I found it was the London Dungeon. ;D Or perhaps the Premier Inn.
Have tried and it works, many thanks. :)
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No problem Roobarb glad it works for you too.
I wonder if my daughter knows that the postcode is for the London Dungeon ;D ;D
Would be worse if it was the "Tower" :'( or even Buck House ;) We are not amused so of with her head :-\
Dorrie
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It seems that the channels are updating their brand-name player subsystems on set-top boxes and others (like PCs), to demand that we log on.
They claim that this is to "improve the viewer experience", while we know it is to "improve the selling of our data".
I have a special email address just for these. It starts "spam@". Surprisingly, the address has been used by other organisations to send me spam. I wonder where they got it from?
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Been reading this thread with interest - thanks for the advice. We have a firestick and have also come across the sudden requirement to register, which I don't want to do. I'll try that postcode, Dorrie - thanks! And yes, another email a/c might come in handy.
Regards and thanks again,
GS
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Happy to help.
Since we got the firestick - a present from the daughter - we have saved ourselves some money. Sent back the equipment to a well known provider and now use the firestick for catchup TV. Don't really need to record numerous programmes at the same time ;D We are finding this works well for us.
Dorrie
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For ITV, they like to know your postcode, so that they can present the "correct" ITV regional programmes. But of course, it's also marketing info.....
BBC Iplayer is starting to ask for info too. I believe they are preparing to start enforcing that you must hold a TV licence to use the iPlayer. Goodness knows how that will work out.
For the Channel 4 Player, I think you must register with an email address and password.
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I don't have a television licence because we don't watch live programmes, and of course that means we also can't and don't watch iPlayer any more. A small price to pay, to be honest. BBC is fine if you really want wall-to-wall baking programmes and faded celebs ballroom dancing, but things like that are of no interest to me. When my daughter bought the Firestick, we got rid of S** and the TV licence. I was interested to read the other day that you don't need a licence for Channel 4 catch-up or ITV catch-up. I rather enjoy Channel 4 news, albeit that I get it a day later than everyone else, but by then it has lost its immediacy so seems somehow less intense.