[kwlug-disc] 8-bay OTA antenna - $50

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> From: Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 7:32 PM
>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] 8-bay OTA antenna - $50
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>I cut the cord a while ago.   Kodi, combined with a Myth TV backend to record local stations, Kodi streams HGTV Canada, Discovery Canada, Food Network and a few others I can't think of at the moment.   I also use Plex media server for a few of those streams, accessing it via the PleXMBC Kodi addon.
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>I get CTV, CTV2, City, Global and TVO. No US stations in New Hamburg.
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>For a time, I was using the USVOD and iPlayer Kodi plug-ins with unblock-us for the US and UK networks.  
>I also have SickRage installed for ‎things I can't always get. *coughtorrentcough*
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>‎No TV payments for 4 years now.

Interesting. Thank you.

> I get CTV, CTV2, City, Global and TVO.


Via OTA?

Kodi will also stream the Canadian channels, but last time I checked it does so via sucking from the web sites, and the web sites keep changing the interface / URLs such that the addon maintainers can't keep up. (Let alone some now use adobe encryption, giving the addons heartburn. At least as of the last time I looked.)

Sadly, as far as I know, Kodi won't just suck the program down. So I can play back on my own time, at my own time, at my own speed - unlike my PVR.

And from my experimentation, nothing seems to beat the VLC interface - especially across providers / programs, and, especially, with subtitles. [It appears few apps understand cc / analogue captions, vs digital captions, and digital captions don't often seem embedded in the stream. I run into this with OTA, too.] Fast forwarding, without sound, let alone without video ... is just broken. (Same occurs on the Vmedia STB box too, AFAIK. Don't know about Zazeen, yet - but would like to know, soonest, even.)