How do you stay up to date with your tv shows (from the USA) while overseas?
I love hulu when I'm in the country but now that I'm out its no good. If it matters I have a MacBook.

I will use this thread to ask a Slingbox question - I have a friend who is stationed in Peru and would like me to add Slingbox to my set so she can watch American TV in Peru - I know you can watch on a laptop - but how would we set up (simply) so she can watch on her full HDTV?

Thanks.

I use a Slingbox. I used to also rip shows from my DirecTV DVR and then transfer the mpeg file, but that is a difficult and elaborate process and far too involved to explain here.

All she needs is a graphic card with an HDMI or DVI output (for the latter, she'll need a DVI to HDMI adapter). Also, many HDTVs have a computer video jack. Some graphics cards are capable of summing the audio and video over HDMI. Others will require connecting the audio output separately.

We have a house in San Francisco and I often watch our Slingbox Pro HD in Newport Beach on an HDTV when we're there. It works fine, though do not expect the same video quality as, for example, from a Blue-ray disk. For the Slingbox to work its magic, the video stream has to be highly compressed.

This thread about Netflix and VPNs may be of help:
International Usage of Netflix Streaming

When we lived in Belgium, we primarily used a Slingbox that we setup at my brother's house in the US. He obtained a separate DirecTV DVR box for us so that we could record shows and watch them on our own time. It is very important to have fast internet connections on both ends or the quality is poor to unwatchable.

We also occasionally used justin.tv and channelsurfing.net. Quality isn't great and the feeds can disappear, but at least gave us a chance to watch some live American sporting events.

When we travel we only use VPN's and find it brilliant ...... except where they limit bandwidth .......

Bittorrent

VPN is the key; the link provided above on slingbox and vps will give u the necessary info;

works for me, able to watch hulu outisde of USA..

I got vpnod.com from the other thread and now I'm all good! Well I may have to get a slingbox unless someone knows where You can watch NFL football online at?