BBC IPlayer

[LadyEloise1]

For those of us don't live in the UK and don't have to pay the BBC licence fee but do have access to BBC television channels and pay a monthly subscription for tv and broadband, in my case to Virgin Media, we can't use the BBC IPlayer.
It would be so useful to have it.
I would be willing to pay a monthly subscription for access.
The BBC is short of money.
A subscription service would bring in much needed revenue.
It's a no brainer.
So why don't they do it ?
Open up the BBC IPlayer to the world for a fee.

Oh and VPN i use is Surfshark. It works pretty well and is around €50 a year??

I'm in Ireland and I use Express VPN. I tried Nord and couldn't get it to work.

With Express, if you can't access iPlayer from one location you just change it to another.

I do like your idea of a subscription service though @LadyEloise1

Yes as pp said, BritBox is going to be under the ITV X umbrella. I think BBC pulled out of the joint streaming with ITV but that current BBC stuff on BritBox is remaining?

Thank you for your suggestions 💐

If you have virgin media can't you just set up series records for anything you want to watch?

Channel 4 doesn't care.

If you access any BBC site anywhere on the web - news, weather, etc - it will put a cookie on your machine saying that you're not in the UK. Then when you try to access iPlayer even if you have your VPN on, it flags that you have that cookie and won't let you watch.

Clear all cookies relating to all BBC sites, then only ever access iPlayer in an incognito window with the VPN turned on. It works then but it's a faff.

With Channel 4 you can turn the VPN on and off in the middle of watching a programme 😂

If you live in the UK and just want to access iPlayer when abroad the easiest way is to download the programmes you want before you leave home, then watch them offline. Downloaded programmes can be kept for 30 days or something.

Use Deeper network Wi-Fi box connects to BBC and ITVX , from any country no need VPN . uses a tunnel system that can connect to any country without VPN . No Monthly fee just pay for hardware .