Help the show from the outside the US!

[thetis]

Hi,

Since they started to air the first season of tscc in germany i have become a fan. Like all US shows, except for House, it is kinda flopping. Atleast it does better than Lost and Smallville. Well, i've downloaded most of the episodes from torrent sites and i started to get more information about the actors and the show. As i saw that the show might get canceled, i was kinda shocked. I did wrote one email to Warner Brothers.

I was trying to find a way to watch fox on demand outside from the US to boost the rating. You will need an US IP for that. I stepped into Hotspot Shield, which maybe works on a 32 bit system (didnt worked for me). If it works for you, nice. Just download it here: www.hotspotshield.com/. Install it and connect and see if it works with fox on demand. Since i have a 64 bit system it didn't worked, because of driver errors. I also tested it with my notebook and hotspot shield did not work with fox on demand, but it worked fine with hulu and abc. Nice, but useless.

After searching for another solution i have found this: insidethebrackets.blogspot.com/2008/12/use-hotspot-shield-in-vista-64-bit-no.html - Basically it creates a VPN connection with an US iphone IP. Takes around 5 minutes to set up and it works just fine. Right now i am watching the current episode. If you want to boost the rating further by watching it again, you have to get another iphone IP and reconnect. I assume fox saves the IP of the viewer and stores them 1:1. For a strange reason i can only watch the show with IE, so if you use firefox and it does not work you might want to try out IE. I've already watched the current episode, just let it stream in the background while you do something else.

If you wish to support the show from outside the US please follow the instructions and watch the show on FOX. I will try and post this on as many fansites i can.

Regards,
Chris

[wb5]

Thanks for the tip. I tried using Hotspotshield to watch "the good wound", and passed the IP check on FOX, but I didn't actually manage to get the video to play (possibly the proxy was just way to slow for the stream). I will give your suggestion a try if I don't enjoy more success with Hotspotshield.

[k8ie]

You can write to Warner Brothers Television Group with produces TSCC and sells the show internationally and tell ‘em that you’re a dedicated viewer from outside the US. Address your properly-spelled, grammatically correct and courteous letters to

Bruce Rosenblum, President
Warner Bros. Television Group (TSCC’s international distributor)

Peter Roth, President
Warner Brothers Television (head of the studio which produces TSCC)

street address:

4000 Warner Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91522

If you watch the episode in Canada on a FOX affliate (God love cable), you can locate your FOX affliate here - www.fox.com/links/affiliates.htm - and send them an e-mail to tell’em how much you enjoyed the show (and it might now hurt to point out the most ridiculous local commercial of the night, just to prove that you actually watched it live).

Anyone who wants to write FOX itself can do so care of

Peter Liguori, Chairman
Entertainment
FOX Broadcasting Company

Kevin Reilly, President
Entertainment
FOX Broadcasting Company

street address:

10201 West Pico Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90035

[thetis]

Feb 18, 2009 15:19:03 GMT -5 wb5 said:

Thanks for the tip. I tried using Hotspotshield to watch "the good wound", and passed the IP check on FOX, but I didn't actually manage to get the video to play (possibly the proxy was just way to slow for the stream). I will give your suggestion a try if I don't enjoy more success with Hotspotshield.

This happened to me too. It is because fox uses a special kind of flash player. You have to download and install it like a regular addon. If it doesn't work via the fox homepage you can get it here: www.movenetworks.com/install-move-player

Once installed it should work with fox.

[wb5]

Thanks again for the tip. I did download the player from FOX itself, but the install may not have worked correctly.

[thetis]

Feb 18, 2009 17:25:43 GMT -5 wb5 said:

Thanks again for the tip. I did download the player from FOX itself, but the install may not have worked correctly.

Well, you can use this link www.movenetworks.com/install-move-player for testing. If he starts to stream the testing video it should work with fox. My browser doesn't react for 4-5 seconds once he started streaming, so give it time or try out IE and if you use IE try out FF;).