No I am sorry to say the BBC have not launched iPlayer in the USA, yet. It is true there have been rumours of a release of iPlayer in the USA using a subscriptions system there are many problems with covering the funding issues for this.

So you might as well stop reading now, as you can't watch BBC iPlayer in the USA can you? Well actually you can, very easily! Much the same as everybody else in the world can watch USA TV you too can watch British TV. Now you can do this for free, but I truly don't recommend that to you as a long term solution. It is slow, so picture quality suffers, and you will spend time each day fixing it.

OK so you may have just taken a look at the free methods, and seen it's hard to setup and not reliable for everyday viewing. What you really need is a UK based proxy or VPN solution. Now if you had to pick between them I would suggest going for a VPN based solution, as it will allow you to watch all UK TV channels and download from BBC iPlayer from anywhere in the world. However there is no need to pick, as one software solution has both UK proxy and VPN (along with 6 other countries) for you to use.

This IP cloaking software simply makes it look like your computer is connected to an ISP in the UK, if you use a proxy it only makes certain parts of your traffic look like its from the UK while others will still appear to be USA based. That is why while you can watch BBC iPlayer in the USA with a UK proxy you will not be able to download. To download programs you will have to use the VPN function as this then makes all your Internet traffic appear to be UK based.

The software is very easy to setup, in fact it does not need to install anything to your copy of Windows and will run from a USB key if needed! Once installed it only takes 2 clicks of your mouse to be watching BBC iPlayer from the USA.

If you want to see it in action there are some videos below showing iPlayer working from Australia! Now that's about as far from the UK as you can get and still be on the planet!

You will also find more information, and help, at getTVabroad.