The free streaming service TF1+ makes its official entry into Belgium this Tuesday, June 18, 2024. “Welcome to Belgium and Luxembourg,” announces the website’s home page. Clicking on the banner brings up a selection of 24 programs (films, series, shows, etc.). “François Damien, Tatiana Silva, Jean-Claude Vandamme, Virginie Efira… they are Belgian and are on TF1+! ”. Enticing, right?
Alas, the promise is not kept. 4 of the 24 titles are absent subscribers. The sanction is irrevocable. “This video is not available from your geographic area”, regardless of whether you use the website or the TF1+ application (smartphone, tablet, smart TV, Apple TV, etc.).
Worse, 9 of the 10 films in the top 10 are not available in our territory. The platform denies you access to The Mummy, Armageddon, You don’t choose your family, My best friend’s wedding, The Boom, Mrs. Mills Such a perfect neighbor, Again, Neuilly his mother!, The tall blond with a black shoe.
The only survivor of this massacre: Titan.
14 Fast TV channels also banned
Elsewhere, in the sections Series, Entertainment, Docs or YouthTF1+ tirelessly combines accessible programs and those which tirelessly regurgitate the message “This video is not available from your geographical area”.
It is also the grimace soup in the catalog of 33 Fast TV channels, these thematic and advertising-financed channels which broadcast old series, old shows, films, etc. on a loop.
14 of the 33 Fast TVs on TF1+ reject Belgian viewers: Taken, RIS Police Scientifique TV, Moms & Famous TV, Inazuma Eleven TV, Forever More One Day TV, Polar Fiction TV, Thriller Fiction, Comedy Fiction, The Battle of the Couples TV, Dancing with the Stars TV, Lolywood TV, Boule et Bill TV , Super Wings TV.
A filter to hide what cannot be seen
It is difficult to understand these major dysfunctions. It would be enough for a filter to automatically hide the programs and channels that devices located in Belgium do not have the right to broadcast.
What was understandable before June 18, 2024 is no longer understandable today.
As a reminder, TF1+ has been unofficially accessible in Belgium via a computer since its launch in January 2024, provided you agree to browse a catalog which combines available and unavailable videos.
Expected in June in Belgium, this free streaming service already allows you to watch films, series, shows
The official arrival of June 18, 2024 is synonymous with Belgian advertising screens and the availability of applications. What about the catalog?
Even if we can hope that many obstacles have been overcome, it remains absolutely incomprehensible that the viewer is obliged to cross their fingers when clicking on the title of a title, a film or a series, for fear of run into the famous “This video is not available from your geographic area”.
