10-20-2016, 12:04 PM
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#801
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by DoubleK
I've been following this thread for a few months now...
What is the consensus on the best android Kodi box? GooBang or Nvida Shield?
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I hated my goobang and I love my amazon TV box. Even my apple TV is good for non sports related Kodi just annoying how I have to update it every week
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11-09-2016, 01:34 PM
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#802
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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I cut the cord years ago but wanted something to watch TV American election coverage so I found a $3 plastic 5 inch UHF antenna from the 80s at a thrift store and put it on my downtown condo balcony.
I've tried before with VHF rabbit ears and got nothing and I realized that I face completely away from signal hill and any stray radio transmissions are getting blocked by a huge amount of buildings behind me in line of sight and also reflected by the glass which covers most of my building exterior (radio works just like light and a portion is reflected). I also found out all our signals are UHF.
I calculated that if that was happening, that the transmissions were also bouncing off all the glass covered buildings in downtown also so there was a chance that I could get good signal reception if I pointed the UHF antenna at a bunch of other buildings and it worked! I'm totally blocked off from the transmission towers but the transmissions are bouncing around the downtown buildings and I'm getting amazing signals. I just needed to get the antenna outside.
It's funny, even if I have the antenna inside and I'm receiving nothing, even opening the balcony door a crack lets in enough radio waves that it starts to work. For now I've wrapped up everything in a little garbage bag as a form of ghetto weather-proofing and put it on the concrete balcony floor. Hopefully, this won't also act like a big lightning rod directly through the coax into my house...
Now, the only problem is I didn't realize OTA sucked so much in Calgary and I'm only getting 6 channels worth of junk...2 of which are almost unwatchable because YESTV is a religious network and OMNI is mostly ethnic programming which switches languages every hour! CICT seems to play nothing but Global News and ET Canada, and the rest are filled with repeats of Modern Family, Big Bang Theory, and 3 & a Half men.
Oh well, I guess I can watch HNIC at least. I can also catch Colbert, James Corden, and Trevor Noah but they all play after 12AM! I'm not in junior high anymore. I can't stay up that late. Those people living in Canadian cities near the US border out east have it lucky, they can catch 20+ channels including the big networks like NBC, ABC, CBS, etc. It sucks here in Calgary.
BTW, I haven't watched TV for almost 15 years. What happened to RDTV and ACCESS?
Last edited by Hack&Lube; 11-09-2016 at 01:46 PM.
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11-09-2016, 02:13 PM
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#803
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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RDTV went off the air a number of years ago. Access became CTV2, but refused to go digital OTA and was shut off when analog signals stopped around 2012.
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11-09-2016, 03:13 PM
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#804
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Chicago
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Those people living in Canadian cities near the US border out east have it lucky, they can catch 20+ channels including the big networks like NBC, ABC, CBS, etc. It sucks here in Calgary.
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Yeah, get 32 channels on South shore of Montreal, but essentially it adds only NBC, CBS, Fox and PBS to the 4 Canadian networks (if we are only counting stuff I might watch). I can't get ABC.
Still a lot of TV for free, particularly comparatively speaking.
You will enjoy the quality of HNIC via OTA
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11-14-2016, 11:18 AM
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#805
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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$25 basic TV can't stop customers from cutting their cable in record numbers
One analyst predicts Canada is on pace to lose almost 200,000 TV subscribers this year — an all-time high
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/basi...able-1.3847342
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11-14-2016, 12:22 PM
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#806
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Sadly not in the Dome.
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Picked up a little android box, Mygica I think it is called. Kodi, Netflix, Crackle, etc. Works quite well. I am a seasoned XBMC/Kodi user so it doesn't bother me anymore. Kids can use it easy enough so once my free cable runs out I will cancel again. Been doing that for years.
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11-26-2016, 12:01 PM
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#807
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Center City
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Speaking of Kodi...
I've never used it, tho for a very brief period had XBMC running (not well) on my ATV2.
Currently I run Plex on a MacMini with an attached WD My Passport drive housing all the content Plex is managing. I have a lifetime subscription to PlexPass which I bought a couple of years ago, and finally took the time to get working properly this week.
While I'm in this streaming state of mind, I'd love to be able to stream some live sports and other TV shows and was wondering if there is any way to do this by integrating Kodi into Plex?
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11-30-2016, 07:13 PM
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#808
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Supporting Urban Sprawl
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BsFaninCGY
Speaking of Kodi...
I've never used it, tho for a very brief period had XBMC running (not well) on my ATV2.
Currently I run Plex on a MacMini with an attached WD My Passport drive housing all the content Plex is managing. I have a lifetime subscription to PlexPass which I bought a couple of years ago, and finally took the time to get working properly this week.
While I'm in this streaming state of mind, I'd love to be able to stream some live sports and other TV shows and was wondering if there is any way to do this by integrating Kodi into Plex?
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Just released today, actually...
https://www.plex.tv/blog/plex-media-...ree-kodi-said/
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11-30-2016, 09:54 PM
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#809
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Scoring Winger
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Does anyone have any insight on the validity (or not) that Amazon prime video is launching in Canada tomorrow (Dec 1st )?
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11-30-2016, 10:12 PM
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#810
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Center City
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Originally Posted by Rathji
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Thanks for the update - but I don't think this is quite what I'm looking for. This sounds like a Kodi add-on and what I'm looking to do is keep using my PMS to handle everything.
Actually, what I really want to do is just get a reliable stream of sports highlights. Movies and other TV shows are a nice addition, but I'd love to be able to fire up my ATV4, open an app (Plex or whatever) and watch the highlights from the night before. Sportsnet wants something crazy like $25/month to do this, so I'm left looking for other options. Anyone have any suggestions?
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12-01-2016, 09:49 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: SE Calgary
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Originally Posted by BsFaninCGY
Thanks for the update - but I don't think this is quite what I'm looking for. This sounds like a Kodi add-on and what I'm looking to do is keep using my PMS to handle everything.
Actually, what I really want to do is just get a reliable stream of sports highlights. Movies and other TV shows are a nice addition, but I'd love to be able to fire up my ATV4, open an app (Plex or whatever) and watch the highlights from the night before. Sportsnet wants something crazy like $25/month to do this, so I'm left looking for other options. Anyone have any suggestions?
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PMS currently does not support live streaming, even with the PLEX DVR its only recording the tv stream and then you can play back. I would love it to get that feature, but I think Plex is worried about the legality of the streams.
On the Apple TV I think you are out of luck as Apple will not allow non legal streams.
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03-18-2017, 12:00 PM
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#812
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Calgary
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Any recommended indoor antennas? Just recently cut the cord. Best Buy was sold out of ones I was considering (one was a Philips digital amplifying antenna...I think)
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03-18-2017, 12:08 PM
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#813
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Franchise Player
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Opinions please.... If one ignores the first-run movies is the other content on an Android box legal streams (or a gray area)? I'm referring to TV programs that are freely available.
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03-18-2017, 12:35 PM
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#814
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Not sure
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First thing you should do is get a VPN. Especially if you are considering "grey" sources.
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04-28-2017, 11:04 AM
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#815
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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So we are considering cutting the cord, most of our watching is in the form of Netflix via our Firestick
My only question is watching Flames games, is there a way to do this legally, and get around the blackouts?
I see that Kodi has an NHL.tv addon that requires the NHL.tv account, does this get around the blackouts? Super annoying that Game Center Live blacks things out.
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04-28-2017, 11:05 AM
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#816
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Cutting the cord
I don't know if the Firestick hardcodes it's DNS, but I found this year that if I set my DNS to use OpenDNS, it made my AppleTV's think that I was in Vancouver. I just happened across this as I use OpenDNS instead of Telus (I had issues with Telus' DNS server for IPV6, so I changed it like a year ago)
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04-28-2017, 12:13 PM
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#817
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Chicago
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I use a different NHL.tv app than the official one, which I find far better, but blackouts are in effect.
You can subscribe to sportsnet now, which should give you every Flames game. I tried the app on my firestick and it worked OK, as I recall. It's $25 per month to subscribe, so I guess it would be $200 per NHL season.
Blackouts got to go.
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05-18-2017, 01:50 PM
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#818
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: North of the River, South of the Bluff
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Bump...Is there any Android TV Boxes out there that people would recommend?
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05-18-2017, 03:13 PM
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#819
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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Nvidia Shield TV. Yeah it's pricey, but it's worth it if you ask me. I have a plex server on it, and it comes with a controller so running emulators is a bonus.
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05-19-2017, 10:27 AM
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#820
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
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I use the Roku 3 and its excellent. has an excellent App store that gives you pretty much all you need and also have Plex and Game Center. Will never go back to Cable.
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