How to watch TV for free on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad

Posted by nkbish0p at 18:10

Tweet Simple tutorial for today, but very useful especially at the moment whilst the world cup is on. I am going to show you how you can watch free-view television on your iDevice without even needing to jailbreak it first!

All you need to do is open safari on your device and browse to the website:

iphone.tvcatchup.com

If you do not already have an account at tv-catchup.com, you will have to create one and sign in before you use this service. Some of the channels you can view are listed below:

bbc1, bbc2, itv 1, 4, 5, itv 2, five usa. e4, itv 3, itv 4, more 4, bbc3, bbc4, fiver, film 4, bbc news, cbbc, citv, 4+1, e4+1, itv2 +1, cbeebies, 4 music, more 4 +1, itv 3 +1, itv 4 +1, film 4 +1, bbc parliament.

The service works over both mobile internet and WIFI, but quality is reduced dramatically if you are using mobile internet.

Bonus:

If you are using a jailbroken iPhone, and would like to watch WIFI quality video over your 3g mobile network search for "3g unrestrictor" in cydia and install it. This will allow you to view high definition video even when you are not connected to a WIFI network.