Call it what you want, I’ll be out of blue TV from July. I only used it very rarely anyway, and every now and then I can watch news or live via SRF Play.

I don’t think it’s that great either, I have a lot of customers with 2 TV boxes, now paying 5 francs more a month for no reason is unnecessary

No matter, you know which provider I’m going to switch to or suggest changing 🙂 (of course I don’t force anyone)

It makes sense that Swisscom should now launch a new subscription.

The marketing department can come up with a name for this.

No replay and 40 TV channels:

For 0 CHF you get:

SRF 1
SRF two
SRF info
The first
ZDF
ORF one
ORF 2
RTL
SAT.1
ProSieben

Cable One
VOX
RTL Two
RTL Great
3+
4+
5+
7+
TV24
TV25

S1
Pulse eight
Tele M1
Tele Bear
Tele Zurich
Tele 1
TVO
Telebasel
3sat
Arte

KiKa
SWR BW
BR South
RTS Un
RTS Deux
TF1
France2
France 3
RSI LA 1
RSI LA 2

Requirement: Internet via Swisscom.

Glotzologist

That’s a joke right???😂

yes it has to go back to the past!!!!

@Glotzologe If you have Swisscom Internet, you can “access” the multicast streams directly, e.g. via VLC, and thus watch many channels for free, see e.g. https://github.com/iptv-ch/iptv -ch.github.io

As far as I know, this works even if you don’t have a Swisscom TV subscription

For people who just want live TV it’s a good option. When I have time I’ll make something with a mini PC (I still have a lot of ThinkCenter M900 lying around) and OpenELEC or something like that, a self-made Blue TV box so to speak. You can certainly pull in EPG information somehow and you can also do live pauses and recordings if you have enough memory in your PC.

However, replay will be difficult

Why do you want to tinker with a new blue TV minimum offer?

The free live TV offer in Switzerland has been around for a long time and is called Teleboy Live 🙂

It also runs without a subscription and without any internet provider dependencies 🙂

@Werner The Teleboy free offer is right advertising, I find 4 advertisements of 15 seconds each annoying. Adblockers recognize them, you have to deactivate them otherwise nothing works. There’s enough advertising on TV now, so I don’t need any more

@NilsL

I don’t mean the “normal” Teleboy app without a paid subscription, but the additional Teleboy Live app, which is basically available for free.

It has no advertising at all and looks like this:

If you want to know more about it, you just have to google Teleboy Live.

@Werner

The residents of the “retirement home” want to have a good picture on their TV and not a lot of advertising, the problem now is that the subscription for CHF 5 is no longer available and something equivalent has to be found.

@Werner Do you mean this app that is only available in the Playstore and Appstore (not as a website for the PC)?

But it also says “contains advertising”. But I didn’t download it, so maybe it’s ad-free after all

As a real alternative to a Blue TV subscription, it would have to be somehow easily available on the “big screen”, for example through a PC that you connect to the TV and via a Bluetooth remote control (you can even connect the Swisscom remote controls to a Windows PC and thus control VLC, for example)

I find it an absolute disgrace that I now have to shell out for an additional TV-Box instead of Fr. 5.- Fr. 9.90.

The old system of CHF 5 per box was fair and transparent.

Keep it up; Even a long-time customer (> 50 years old) gets frustrated once in a while…

@NilsL

Yes, that’s what I mean.

It can also be easily brought to the big screen via Airplay or Chromcast, but you just have to be aware that, as with the blue TV apps, you still get a good picture, but not the full high-resolution big screen picture quality receives in the streams.

But if you want really good big-screen TV quality on up to 5 devices at the same time, whether TVs, set-top boxes, tablets, PCs, without unnecessary customer restrictions, harassment or forced advertising, I would still choose the Teleboy paid subscription Install TV with a promotional discount lasting 20 years for CHF 11.90/month.

For example, it also runs perfectly on an Apple TV box and recently even on a Swisscom TV-Box 5, just not perfect yet 🙂

Clearly a unilateral change to the contract. One month 5-14.90 a joke

New customers get the thing free for 6 months, then 14.90.

You make me want to take a look at the offers from the competition - thank you.

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@NilsL wrote:

@Glotzologe If you have Swisscom Internet, you can “access” the multicast streams directly, e.g. via VLC, and thus watch many channels for free, see e.g. https://github.com/iptv-ch/ iptv-ch.github.io

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The freaks with who knows how many pay-TV packages, need for replay and recordings, etc. can now be found here in the forum.

Remember, there are still TV viewers with minimal needs, including only live TV. Of course, there are also the TV programs that you grew up with and that were already available via the cable TV network around 20-40 years ago.

Fact: For the now considerable additional price, Swisscom includes functions in the “S” subscription that the TV viewers in question have no need for.

Super practical if you can continue to use the 10-key keyboard on the remote control of the TV or box to select the TV programs. So don’t start just any app…

Glotzologist

@Glotzologe Only pure live TV is completely free, you just need a device that can receive the IPTV streams. So Swisscom already has this free TV offer, in contrast to other providers like Sunrise/UPC who don’t provide anything without a TV subscription, no multicast streams and everything is now encrypted via cable and so requires a smart card on the TV

@Werner The Teleboy app on Apple TV runs without a subscription and without advertising, of course without recording and replay.
I had this for quite a long time before I subscribed to the offer for 11.90 again.

Well, then you would almost have to switch to Wingo TV if the promo was appropriate.

Important for older semesters is 1-fold, which works reliably with the “OneRemote” TV.

@NilsL or @kaetho What are your experiences with the current WingoTV? IR doesn’t work, can it be done via HDMI-CEC?

Dear Swisscom

I thought you wouldn’t do a subscription or price increase until the end of 2024?

This is what it says on your page:

[https://www.swisscom.ch/de/about/news/2023/06/04-preissicherheit.html](https://www.swisscom.ch/de/about/news/2023/06/04- price security.html)

What else could be there now?