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Posted: Tue Aug 4, 2026 7:50pm
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nasus

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I have stuck with Spanish TDT for years but the reception is now dire, gets worse every year, sometimes I have only 2 or 3 channels. The antenista says there's too much interference as I pick up the signal from too many transmitters. I can't have a satellite dish. I've boiled it down to 2 options:

Adding Ole's tv package to their fibre optic internet. I have fibre optic.

Amazon Firestick (I have one) with Nord VPN

Basically I want Spanish and UK tv, rest of the world would be good, ability to have original language would be great as I hate dubbed tv and movies. Hearing's not great and the lip movement not matching the sound is weird.

Be kind, I usually just turn the tv on and that's it. 😁

RonTT

Posted: Wed Aug 5, 2026 8:46am

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Posted: Wed Aug 5, 2026 8:46am

This really has been covered so many times on the form, sometimes good advice given and sometimes "less than good advice" given.

marcliff

Posted: Wed Aug 5, 2026 9:47am

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Posted: Wed Aug 5, 2026 9:47am

If you live in flats or a community of owners, contact either your president or administrators as several Spanish laws mandate access to Spanish TV and radio channels. You should be able to get Spanish TDT with no interference. You could always try using a Freeview type (Spanish equivalent)  box which will find the best channels for you. It won't get foreign ones but will get the TDT ones

And if you can't install a dish, you've already given the other two options which is paying your internet provider for TV channels or using an IPTV with VPN. Decide which one you want.

Nou Camp

Posted: Wed Aug 5, 2026 1:26pm

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Posted: Wed Aug 5, 2026 1:26pm

Get good speed internet, get an Apple TV box, put on some Spanish TV apps on.

These are free to watch, RTVE Play, Atresplayer, pluto TV... these apps should cause no problems to install as you will be using a Spanish IP address.

I don't know all the UK TV apps, but I use ITVX, BBC iPlayer in Belgium. You get a UK Apple ID, download the UK apps on your Apple Box. You then install Nord VPN, and set it to a UK IP address, and there you go. I think I just paid 105 Euro's for 3 years Nord VPN.

Sure, IPTV is an option, but as mentioned here before, highly illegal for illegal streams.

merv46

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2026 1:01pm

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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2026 1:01pm

The Ole package is excellent and service first class, if needed. With them c 20 years

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