I got this DVD installer in the mail last week for PLDT WatchPad. Been seeing the ads as well on TV lately and was wondering if this is a free or paid service from PLDT to all its myDSL subscribers.
Are there other PLDT myDSL subscribers getting their DVD installers in the mail too? I read that this is available if you subscribe to myDSL Plan 999, 1995 and 3000. This is streaming video so only makes sense for PLDT to offer it to high-bandwidth plans.
Available channels include PBO, CNBC, MTV, GO, Animax, CNN, GMA7, Cartoon Network and National Geographic (provided by Cignal TV). Anyway, I tried installing the application on my Windows 7 desktop but it kept on crashing. Will try this on an XP PC and see if it works.
Anyone else got this running on their system? How is it?
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This is nice! Haven’t run it yet, but the channels are great.
My sis is using it on her desktop w/c is running on XP. It works fine. But I don;t know where she got the installer from. We haven’t received the installer from PLDT yet.
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.
We’ve already got the installer in the mail. Haven’t installed it in my laptop, but by brother had done it yesterday, on his laptop. I don’t know if its coincidence, but our pldt 999 connection got slower when i got home at 11pm. Cant do internet banking, access facebook and check mails.
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replied on Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:05 pm (5)
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.
haven’t receive the installer yet.. but got the chance to experienced ti. last month until i reformat my pc.
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.
You can actually just do everything online. I installed this over two computers over the last week. I had to download Windows Installer 3.1 and Microsoft .net framework in order to completely launch the app.
video is small, perhaps of our subscription. Hanggang pang pacquiao cotto lang talaga.
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.
I Don’t Have the Installer yet
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
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 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?
Yeah…Kevin obviously it works with 64 bit version. I am using it on 64bit system.
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
received the installer last week too but haven’t installed it. not mac compatible. I haven’t tried it over bootcamp though.
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
i tried to install it on my win 7 64 bit pc but it didn’t work so i downloaded virtual xp for win 7 and it worked instantly! it’s easy to use and the best thing about watchpad is that it’s free internet tv! wahaha
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.
What I’m saying is that based on the terms and conditions pldt has the right to charges fees in the future. It’s free at the moment but when the time comes that they decided to charge the services you would automatically be charged for your subscription since you agreed to the terms and conditions. It’s like a free trial for now.
Example:
Now = free
Sometime in the Future = it’s not free and you will be charged for your subscription unless you terminate it
@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.
Can this be used on any internet provider? I installed the Watchpad software but am using non-PLDT account. Unfortunately it keeps saying “Invalid name and password”
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.
sana may ganito rin ung smartbro. hehehe
@manny: aw shucks, does anybody here know any other online TV alternatives? I only know of http://kapams.tk
i’m using Vista 64-bit. crashed on me too.
it’s starting to look like this thing only works in XP.
tvadik.co.cc is a good alternative for watchpad. watch replays of your favorite abs-cbn shows.
kaka-install ko lang thru their website but havent signed up pa, binasa ko muna ung terms and conditions, free for now pero they will charge after.
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
only Residential subscribers can enjoy this PLDT WatchPad.. too bad i have PLDTbiz plan.. as if mas malaki ang binabayaran ng mga residential subscribers kesa sa aming mga naka biz plan. o.O
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
any techie out there who recognizes what they use? does it look proprietary or is it flash? silverlight? or adobe air perhaps?
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 have just installed using the DVD. The quality is pretty decent. It has Cartoon Network, national geographic, E!, MTV and other channels.
The prerequisites are Adobe flash player, IE8, .NET Framework 2.0. I am not actually sure if I had all the prerequisites but I clicked on the installer of Watch pad itself, it detected I had no Flash player yet (or maybe I had a lower version). It installed Flash first before the Watchpad application. It’s Pretty cool!
i installed this on XP Home Premium. Works ok on my system.
I had it installed and working on my Vista and XP laptops, but not on my Windows 7 laptop and macbook. I’m wondering if there’s a solution for Windows 7 atleast?
@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..
@jared
san ka makakakuha ng virtual xp?
hi to everyone..help naman po kung pano makapaginstall ng netframe 2.0 gamit ko pong OS windows 7 64bit..thanks
Well we are PLDT MyDSL Subscribers, and I signed up for WatchPad.
This WatchPad service is great, as it currently FREE. I particularly like the ‘History Channel’
We currently paying Php891.96 for MyDSL Plan and another Php542.19 for Residential Line Service, pluse the EVAT of Php180.29 on top of this, making it Php1614.44 Total.
What I want to determine, is the benefits, if any, of switching to Plan 1299?
Right now I am not at all impressed with PLDT WatchPad!
95 minutes before the ‘Cotto v Pacquaio’ fight starts they are showing de la Hoya re-run and WatchPad has ‘crashed’!
“Connection to the PLDT Watchpad Server is lost, dick OK to dose the player and reconnect after 10 minutes. (E1402)”
“Error
Unable to verify. Please try again!”
I waited 10 Mins, and still unable to Log-in to My WatchPad, after being rudely thrown out!
“Error
Unable to verify. Please try again!”
I am phoning ‘171′ but Service Representatives are busy on other calls!
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.
vince,
since you are running windows 7 why not try win7’s XP mode?
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…
Well MyWatchPad Service is back now!
its back yes but it buffers every now and then
bakit ganon nka experience ak, higher than plan 1299 pero d available sakin ung high quality vid? tpos pwala2 pa xa
pldt my dsl is a fucked up service thats why
It is being shown on ANC and ABS CBN TV Channels
I have given up on WatchPad – keeps buffering and crashing – not watchable!
Most of the Channels on JustinTV, after a while stop and say “Maximum Streams to your Country has been reached – Sign up for Premium JustinTV Service”
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)
ok sana kaya lang when i watch the manny paquio vs cotto fight grabe panay stop ang i got plan xcite 2 mb..dont tell me my connection is weak.. they advertize this think but then they cant do it right… im pisss right now for letting me download this bull. then its not worth it.
This is a big waste of time. Shame on you PLDT!!!
its not about the speed why the stream keeps on buffering and why watchpad always kicking us out.its because pldt didnt plan and didnt open a much bigger bandwidth. they dont have any back plan for this. i dropped my cable service for this watchpad just to know that it cant deliver what it is expected of it to deliver. pldt shouldnt promise or commit something that it cant deliver. were all given FALSE HOPES by PLDT and their stupid promises and senseless offers
WatchPad sucks big time!
Di man lang kami lumampas sa “Buffering 5%…”
Boooo!
Kung di ninyo kaya panindigan, huwag na kayo mag-yabang!
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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#5404210480015695938
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#5404211631982081106
Why so much Data from WatchPad, being Uploaded?
http://picasaweb.google.com/david.whittall/BloggerPictures?authkey=Gv1sRgCKm-2eLftaKYQQ#5404215079770704818
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#5404220082166515090
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!
I was able to catch glimpses of the fight via watchpad, not sure if its my connection… we are plan 899
I guess they recommend a higher plan right?
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replied on Nov 15th, 2009 at 3:27 pm (57)
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. :-/
kung di po ako nagkakamali,
sa ibang bansa pwedeng kasuhan
ung mga ganyang company…
d2 ren po ata pwede,
kya lng cgurado nman na d kau mnanalo eh..
MALINAW na mata ng supreme court, dpat bulag un dba?
yeah Sopcast is the way to go for these times.
I agree with Earl, watchpad = another bogus advertising epic failure for PLDT.
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.
pldt watchpad suck BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
around 6am palang i tried to login sa watchpad and i was able to login. i check the my view and si ricky lo palang ang palabas, so i logout first to play online games, then around 8am i tried to login again, i cannot login anymore, keeps on showing pop up box cannot verify… WTF…
free po ba tong wathcpad? may additional charge po ba to?
I guess PLDT needs to improve the watchpad service. I’m sure there working on it considering they are the first to introduce this kind of software.
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!