Anyone else running PLDT WatchPad?

This is nice! Haven’t run it yet, but the channels are great.

You can actually get the installer from http://www.pldtwatchpad.com/, I got mine installed, but not working.. no videos comes up. I reported it to the PLDT Watchpad support and they told me they still have some problems on the back end specially for slower connection (I have Bundle 990, 384 kbps, but request for an upgrade to Bundle 1299, 784kbps).

However, I never received the installer from mail.

BTW, I have an XP system.

yep, installed it and it’s working fine on my computer. i’m using vista. it used to load real slow when our connection was the 990 plan, but we upgraded to the 1299 plan and it’s better now. it takes a while to load but once it’s loaded, tuloy-tuloy na.

Got the installer 30minutes ago but I think the cd had a problem because it keeps on crashing when I attempt to install it. I have Vista Home Premium.

Guys have you read the terms and conditions?

“2. Acceptable Use of the Service
Whenever the subscriber will access the Service, subscriber shall consent and is hereby giving full authority to PLDT to charge the monthly charges of the Service to subscribers PLDT telephone account. (At the moment, the Service is free of charge but PLDT reserves the right to impose the necessary monthly charges in the future)”

“3. Payment
The monthly charges that may be charged by PLDT in the future shall be chargeable to the existing PLDT telephone service of the subscriber.”

I think this is a trap. You will be automatically charged in the futute after the free trial has ended.

Watchpad is for free, but it offers low quality video streaming. from what I understand, you can upgrade the Watchpad for a price, which makes y the channels available in high quality. I’ve been watching tv with it. too bad animax mobile is a hoax

Important question… Does this works on a 64-bit OS?

PLDT expects new ‘Watchpad’ podcast service to revolutionize online entertainment
http://philippinestuff.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/pldt-expects-new-%E2%80%98watchpad%E2%80%99-service-to-revolutionize-online-entertainment/

Even Pacman rumble is free Sunday

I’ve been using PLDT watchpad for sometime like a over a month already and have not been charged for the service yet. I followed the instructions thru this blog i’ve been following.

http://allthingsdigitaldownsouth.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-watch-gma-pbo-national.html

Well, the WatchPad service is free. For now. I’ve read the Terms and Conditions and somewhere in there it says that it might soon become a paid service. Yikes. I hope PLDT decides against it because man, WatchPad’s fun, esp. if it’s free. :D

@Jan Lorenz Thank god you understood my point. Guys read the terms and conditions carefully. It’s not permanently free. It’s like a free trial only. You’ll be charged anytime in the future.

You don’t need the DVD installer to install it. Just use IE, click the install link on the watchpad page then run the downloaded file.

Unfortunately, you can not view it using any other ISP.

@manny: aw shucks, does anybody here know any other online TV alternatives? I only know of http://kapams.tk

tvadik.co.cc is a good alternative for watchpad. watch replays of your favorite abs-cbn shows.

i heard over rx that pac vs cotto will be streamed in watchpad for free

but I’m sure that it will be really slow

help guys…i’ve insatlled all the requirments of wathcpad…but whenever i click on a channel, even though the buffering reaches 100% theres nothing

naka PLDT WatchPad din ako. nareceive ko ung DVD 2 weeks ago and di ko pa na che-check.:) ok naman ung mga channels lalo na at nandun ung favorite channels ko like History Channel.

i installed this on XP Home Premium. Works ok on my system.

@Vince

sabi ni itechme (above post) nag install xa ng virtual xp tas gumana na daw ung watchpad nya.

ganyan din akin now im DL virtual xp. sana gumana..

hi to everyone..help naman po kung pano makapaginstall ng netframe 2.0 gamit ko pong OS windows 7 64bit..thanks

i have it in my machine and its running windows 7 ultimate.i was able to install it and use it with no sweat. its just that its faltering on me as of the moment.im getting the same message like david is getting. ive been sitting in queue for 22minutes now and still nobody is picking up my call. i guess pldts watchpad server cant accomodate all those watchpad users. i was able to talk to the watchpad tech rep last night and they just keep on giving run arounds and some bogus reasons just to get away with me and for me to hang up the phone. pldt’s tech support is useless since they dont even know what they are doing and they rely more on their run around scripts.

they’re having tech prob. they cant do anything. hay…kanina pa ako di makapaglogin but when i was about to talk to a rep, nakapaglogin na ako but its buffering 17% then balik 1% then connection lost. since nagregister ako, di pa ako nakapanood ng tv using watchpad. hay…

its back yes but it buffers every now and then

pldt my dsl is a fucked up service thats why

badtrip palagi may error!!!! ndi ako makapanuod kay pacquiao!!!! aaarrrrgggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!…..

connection to the PLDT

Watchpad Server is lost, click

OK to close the player and

reconnect after 10 minutes.

(E1402)

This is a big waste of time. Shame on you PLDT!!!

WatchPad sucks big time!

Di man lang kami lumampas sa “Buffering 5%…”

Boooo!

Kung di ninyo kaya panindigan, huwag na kayo mag-yabang!

I used the tbb Meter from ThinkBroadband.com to see the Bandwidth whilst running ThinkPad.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/bbmeter.html

I observed something rather strange; this being the amount of data that my PC was ‘sending’! It was being generated from the WatchPad Application, since if I shut that down, all the data shown in ‘red’ (upload) immediately stopped!

http://picasaweb.google.com/david.whittall/BloggerPictures?authkey=Gv1sRgCKm-2eLftaKYQQ#54042104*****695938

Green = Download

That is a 50Mb Test File being downloaded, so quite repectable download speed from MyDSL connection.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/622807964.png

SpeedTest.net gives 1.41Mb/s as the average download speed, for the test, and 470kb/s as the upload speed.

So what happens when you run ‘WatchPad’?

Red = Upload
Yellow = Upload/Download. at the same time!

http://picasaweb.google.com/david.whittall/BloggerPictures?authkey=Gv1sRgCKm-2eLftaKYQQ#54042116*****081106

Why so much Data from WatchPad, being Uploaded?

http://picasaweb.google.com/david.whittall/BloggerPictures?authkey=Gv1sRgCKm-2eLftaKYQQ#54042150*****704818

This shows the B/W of the replay of the AWESOME PACQUIAO CRUSHING COTTO. I then shut down MyView and a short while later, closed the WatchPad Application.

I restarted WatchPad application, and tried to select High Quality Mode (as I have done in the past), but it is now rejected, and this warning given:-

“High Quality video is available only for myDSL Plan 1299 and up. Upgrade now to enjoy faster speeds!”

So I watched in standard quality.

http://picasaweb.google.com/david.whittall/BloggerPictures?authkey=Gv1sRgCKm-2eLftaKYQQ#54042200*****515090

This shows the B/W during the replay of Rounds 3 &4.

However after seeing Round 4 replay, ‘WatchPad’ crashed!

“Connection to the PLDT Watchpad Server is lost, dick OK to dose the player and reconnect after 10 minutes. (E1402)”

Admittedly, I did not wait 10 mins, and it allowed me back in.

Another ‘change’ introduced to ‘WatchPad’ to overcome the shortcomings of the Streaming performance, during the much publicised PACQUIAO Match, is the INABILITY to select other Channels!

You can select, and watch, during the end of Round time outs in the ‘corners’, but it switches to the boxing as soon as next Round starts!

nung ayaw mag-buffer ng maayos, nag-SOPCast nalang kami dito sa bahay. no skips, no lags, no problem. i guess PLDT couldn’t handle the number of people trying to use the Watchpad service to watch the fight. :-/

yeah Sopcast is the way to go for these times.

binaha daw ng mga nagtatry pa magregister for watchpad this morning e. til november 7 lang pala yung cut-off nila for the people who would like to watch the fight on watchpad.
nag ka prob nung sabay sabay na raw yung registrations and yung mga people na registered na talaga na gusto manuod ng fight.
pero nakareceive ako ng text from watchpad na
pwede ko mapanood yung fight sa ibang channels nila.

I have been trying to install watchpad on all my three machines. Two running XP and one Vista, all with respectable specs. For some reason, the installation returns an error. So no watchpad for me.

I don’t have the installer, i just downloaded the installer over the air.

free po ba tong wathcpad? may additional charge po ba to?

downloaded the installer online after registration…
i’ve tried installing it to 4 different computers with different OS; xp,7,vista,&ubuntu (linux)

there’s something i’ve noticed which might be of help. Plug-ins, firewall, shared connection (eg.router), and max acquired download speed.

Plug-in: when I install/setup a pc I make sure I’ve all known plug-ins are installed (this is also because I do video editing). so no hassle with that, I think.

Firewall: 2 of my 4 PC has triple security system and a bit hard to install software/programs. basically, just unblock/allow access to the internet and with other programs you want to run with it’s necessary sub-programs. I think there were 3 or 4 that you need to have free access to everything. (this is of course untrusted to most people)

Shared internet connection:
this goes to those who use routers and share the internet connection. of course, speed depreciates once shared with a couple of computers or more. (ignore this one of you’re only a single user/pc)

Download/Upload Speed:
Well, everyone knows this affects everything and I know most of us experience problems with PLDT… hehehe…. If you have a vacant time, just give a hit to test your speed and if there’s a problem, complain to the customer service (just sound a bit frustrated to make it so convincing)

((I’ve also tried tweaking the….you know… hehehe…. but I’m just leveling the subscribed speed not go beyond it.)) Alright my point is that I’m making a fair action. nyahehehe….

okay, I think I’ve shared my part and I hope you’all get the “real” idea. hehehe….

Thanks all!

I have macbook and i cant download pldt watchpad. Pls help me how..

thanks
mae

working now on Windows 7
they replaced MTV Phil with Channel [V] Phil XD love it

@GeMaTriA Watchpad does not support Vista x64..watchpad sucks!

Sayang di ako PLDT.. Pero sabi nila maganda daw ung stream sa Pacquiao-Clottey fight.

sabi na nga ba di nga support 64-bit OS.
thnx anyway.
sana man lang gumawa sila para sa 64-bit
tsk, tsk, tsk…

i have bundle 1299 but i cant register to watchpad registration portal it says “watch pad is for residential subscribers only”, what should i do help please. thanks

ayaw gumana ung link sa site ng pldt amp. dko 2loy ma subukan.

after I click the lunch button, this is what I get.

403 – Forbidden: Access is denied.
You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.

is it in my pc or the website itself?
I’ve run pldt watchpad before. But now it won’t launch

I have same problem as GeMaTriA.

But I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit.

It keeps on showing this:

Description:
Stopped working

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: pldt watchpad.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 4b8e3679
Problem Signature 04: PLDT Watchpad
Problem Signature 05: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 4b8e3679
Problem Signature 07: f
Problem Signature 08: e0
Problem Signature 09: System.InvalidOperationException
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

ANY help?

ok naman cya. works with win7 on both i7 and core2 duo machines 32 bit and 64 bit. downloaded installer from the net.

my prob is nakakalog in ako pero yung log in box at password di ko makita. Hinahanap ko pa.tapos pag nka pasok na ako di ko ma click yung mga icons sa right side at nag bliblink sila. yung arcade lang pwede ma click ko.

pahiram ng watchpad name at password

mga sira! magpakabit kayo ng dsl! di yan gagana pag wala kau nun! taaaanggaaaaaas!

pahiram po ng credit card info para maka join sa hentai tagalog videos