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Best free streaming TV for Germany?

Dieses Thema im Forum "Streaming: Apple TV+, Pluto TV, Zattoo und weitere" wurde erstellt von fineman, 1. Februar 2020.

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  1. fineman

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    (Sorry for English - recently moved to Germany and still learning German!)

    I bought a Chromecast hoping to be able to get most of the German 'free view' TV channels, but it seems to be hard - services like Waipu, Zattoo and so on show a big channel list but in their 'free' package many channels seems missing (RTL for example)

    Is there any way to get all the same channels that are available for free over the air with antenna via streaming services for free? If not what is considered the best selection of channels that one can obtain via free streaming?

    Thanks!
     
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    You can get the German ÖR Channel for Free via IPTV when you have made a list with the m3u8 channels inside but these are not always the same as over Air. Some Movies will not be show in the Stream.
     
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    The best choice for free channels is Joyn, available even without account are many public channels in HD (except Arte) and many private channels in SD (except the channels of the RTL-Group and Tele5), but Arte and Tele5 are available free on Zattoo.
    The channel list of Joyn e.g. is here: giga.de/artikel/joyn-sender-liste-alle-programme-im-ueberblick/, but Chromecast is not supported officially (only with a trick: giga.de/tipp/joyn-mit-chromecast-streamen-so-gehts/).
    The only free livestream of a RTL channel is Ntv: n-tv.de/mediathek/livestream.
    But it is possible to watch most RTL programs for free as "VOD" (Video on demand) within seven days after broadcasting on tvnow.de. (Btw. the RTL-Channels are "available for free over the air with antenna" only via DVB-S with a satellite dish, not via DVB-T.)

    Probably the only way to watch all common channels with no additional charge is at present if your DSL-Provider is 1und1 (Channel list: dsl.1und1.de/DetailsDigitalTV), but Chromecast seems currently not to be supported.

    The cheapest way otherwise to watch the RTL-Channels is a package called Live-Only for 2,99 €/month including the 9 channels RTL, Vox, VoxUp, RTL2, Nitro, Super RTL, Ntv, RTLplus, Toggo plus (and additional an online channel called NOW!): hilfe.tvnow.de/hc/de/articles/360000696977-LIVE-ONLY-. Chromecast is supported.
     
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    azureus gefällt das.
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    Thanks! We just discovered Joyn - which does appear to cast fine to the Chromecast straight from the app, no tricks :) RTL is odd - waipu list it in their 'Free TV' list along with a number of other channels that simply do not show when you actually use the app. But Joyn seems to be best at he moment as you say