<div dir="ltr">Aside from what's already been mentioned, you can also get CBC programs on the CBC app for Android/iOS, HGTV canada site has a lot of their shows ready for you to stream, but you tend to need to watch them on a computer that supports Flash, IIRC.<div><br></div><div>Kodi's scraping addons, which I've used quite a lot in the past, are unreliable at best. They're generally maintained by only one or two coders, in their spare time, and have to constantly update the plugin. Most coders tend to get sick of it all and stop updating, then the project changes hands... rinse, repeat. <br><div><br></div><div>You should consider an antenna. Depending on your location, you can get digital TV broadcasts in 1080i. I live out in New Hamburg, and I get:</div><div><br></div><div>CTV (Baden Tower)</div><div>CTV2 (London Tower)</div><div>TVO (Paris Tower)</div><div>Global (Paris Tower) </div><div>CityTV (Woodstock Tower)</div><div><br></div><div>Pretty much any modern TV can get DTV broadcasts and if you live on the east side of KW, you might even get CBC, or other programming from Toronto area. Check out <a href="http://www.tvfool.com" target="_blank">http://www.tvfool.com</a>; use their Online Maps option and you can see what's available to you. Course, this might mean putting a TV antenna up. </div><div><br></div><div>Personally I use an HDHomeRUN tuner and one of those round, saucer shaped antennas (<a href="http://dennysantennaservice.com/image/18483796.gif">http://dennysantennaservice.com/image/18483796.gif</a>), along with MythTV to record everything. I then use Kodi on a plain old Android box (not one of those pirate boxes) to interface with MythTV. This means you'd need a dedicated Linux box running MythTV all the time, however.</div><div><br></div><div>It's not easy to get all the free programming in one location... Perhaps once broadcasters / TV execs start to realize this, things will change. Pay one low price for access to everything, but then again, since Bell/Rogers owns TV content, TV stations and the distribution network, I doubt this will happen anytime soon.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Mark Steffen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmarksteffen@gmail.com" target="_blank">rmarksteffen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Legal? Netflix, Youtube, CraveTV<div><br></div><div>Legal and Free (and somewhat good): Crackle.com (owned by Sony), and TubiTV.com (not sure who owns it but has decent content albeit a bit old).</div><div><br></div><div>Also, most of the TV networks also will stream for free a couple recent episodes of what was recently on air, but for "full" access you need a satellite/cable/IPTV subscription.</div><div><br></div><div>As others mentioned there is Kodi (and all it's shady TV/movie pirating apps). Kodi itself isn't illegal or shady and makes a great media player, with lots of legal content plugins (that scrape/pull from legit streaming network sources) but it is mainly popular for the apps that stream pirated content.</div><div><br></div><div>I was lucky enough to get Shaw Direct through the LTSS program a few years back (and then upgrade to a nearly full TV package for $25/month guaranteed until at least end of 2019) but if they raise the price after that I will just cancel it as nobody really watches 'regular' TV in my household, it's mostly Youtube and Netflix. I just like to have Shaw for the occasional channel surfing when I'm bored, or to watch BNN/CNBC/live news/occasional sports/etc.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_4144412269690297670gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b>Mark Steffen</b><div><font size="1">Office Direct: <a href="tel:(226)%20476-1240" value="+12264761240" target="_blank">+1.226.476.1240</a> | Mobile: <a href="tel:(226)%20600-0464" value="+12266000464" target="_blank">+1.226.600.0464</a></font></div><div><i style="font-size:x-small">"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln</i></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Russell McOrmond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russellmcormond@gmail.com" target="_blank">russellmcormond@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div> I dropped cable back in 2012, and use the legal streaming options. I am also a Teksavvy customer.</div><div><br></div><div> In all but one case, I don't use VPN services: <a href="http://mcormond.blogspot.ca/2016/11/notes-from-watching-supergirl-via-vpn.html" target="_blank">http://mcormond.blo<wbr>gspot.ca/2016/11/notes-from-<wbr>watching-supergirl-via-vpn.<wbr>html</a> . VPN may annoy some of the legacy cable companies, but they are legal to use -- and if NAFTA were a legitimate "trade agreement" then we'd have a single content market and there wouldn't be shows legally available in the US (where most people VPN to) but not in Canada.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Easiest to use service is Netflix, and it works on the most devices. My wife doesn't want to fiddle with messy websites to watch TV, so pretty much only watches Netflix -- if we watch on a different streaming service then I'm the one with the controls.</div><div><br></div><div>The second most useful for me is Google Play, where I can get seasons of shows for not much -- and it works on most of my devices, but not quite as easy as Netflix.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Amazon Prime is now in Canada, and there are some really good shows on that -- but the catalog isn't huge.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Some Canadian broadcasters have their own custom apps and websites, but they're all pretty bad. I watch some shows on the CTV GO app, but its flaky.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I also have CraveTV and while it is an amateurish services compared to the professional "foreign" services, it often works. Pretty much everything that is available on CraveTV is available in the USA via Netflix and/or Hulu, and we'd all be better off if the region blocking were removed from those better services.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As I try to speak to politicians about the problems caused by our outdated broadcaster-centric cultural policy, I blog about my experiences.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://mcormond.blogspot.ca/search/label/Television" target="_blank">http://mcormond.blogspot.ca/se<wbr>arch/label/Television</a><br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_4144412269690297670h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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