Fellow Canadians, you know you can get a VPN subscription for ~$5/month so you can access Hulu et al. eh? I do this with MLB.tv so I can watch the Blue Jays' games since they're all blacked out nationwide. Everything else I just torrent and stream from my PC to my 360/PS3 using TVersity. Works like a charm. Used to watch stuff exclusively on my PC, but recently upgraded to a 50" plasma and my god there is no going back. I can't stand non-HD content any more. I'm never going back to cable/satellite television, even without the torrents. Hulu doesn't have as much content as I'd like, though. Plus I like to have the complete shows downloaded so I don't have to stream over the internet all the time. There's lots of gamers in the house (myself included), it wouldn't go over very well if I was tying up the bandwidth all the time. I'm just wondering how long until the networks, cable/satellite companies change their business model and start offering à la carte channels and such, lowering their prices, etc.
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Fellow Canadians, you know you can get a VPN subscription for ~$5/month so you can access Hulu et al. eh? I do this with MLB.tv so I can watch the Blue Jays' games since they're all blacked out nationwide. Everything else I just torrent and stream from my PC to my 360/PS3 using TVersity. Works like a charm. Used to watch stuff exclusively on my PC, but recently upgraded to a 50" plasma and my god there is no going back. I can't stand non-HD content any more. I'm never going back to cable/satellite television, even without the torrents. Hulu doesn't have as much content as I'd like, though. Plus I like to have the complete shows downloaded so I don't have to stream over the internet all the time. There's lots of gamers in the house (myself included), it wouldn't go over very well if I was tying up the bandwidth all the time. I'm just wondering how long until the networks, cable/satellite companies change their business model and start offering à la carte channels and such, lowering their prices, etc.