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Originally Posted by esquire
CBC Gem is a pretty good side dish to Netflix.
I was always a bit fascinated by the idea of doing a FTA satellite dish but I could never bother with all the technical details getting it set up. Kodi and the like were a non-starter for me... I can't be bothered with the constant tinkering involved.
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I didn't know about CBC Gem, thanks for the headsup.
Unless something has changed, after years of having satellite and then not, I looked at FTA and I don't think there was a whole lotta content there.
Kodi, I wouldn't say has constant tinkering, especially when it involves cleared content, that seems pretty constant. Kodi is good for connecting to content programs like the Smithsonian Channel (addon now being rewritten), Food Network, and off the beaten path stuff like archive.org, and NFB.
My experience with Kodi has been interesting. Years ago I used to go to separate websites to find cleared content. A site like CTV for example would have some shows available but not a whole season or anything like that, same with NBC for example. I thought, wouldn't it be great to have a program to conglomerate all that and that is what Kodi essentially does. I knew about Kodi/XBMC for years but I didn't know what it did (to my regret). I always thought it was just another media player like Windows Media Player.
In case anyone hasn't heard of it USTVNow is interesting. It's purpose was to allow US citizens overseas to watch what they could at home with an OTA setup. It's less now than it was but you can get (with the free version) ABC, CBS, CW, My9, and PBS. I have mine hooked up in Kodi. After 60 days or so the resolution on the free accounts goes less than hi def but I've read you can sign out and back in with the same user/pass and it will go back to high def.