Roku Questions

[intarsiabox]

We are think of getting rid of our Telus Optik TV and going the Roku route. My question is how available are current shows in Canada on this device. My kids like watching The Family Channel and YTV and wife likes watching the new episodes of Bones, Criminal Minds, The Originals and Grey's Anatomy. Are these channels/shows available or do you have to wait months down the road to watch them? Thanks!

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

I have AppleTV and ZaapTV
Using XBMC and usually within 24 hr updates,My wife and I watch Criminal minds, NYPD, criminal justice I believe and the news with no issues.
We havent used a any of the available companies for TV for years so I cannot compare but you spend up to a minute to find what you want and not scroll by channel #.Hope that helps.

[halwake]

We dropped Telus about six months ago. I have subscribed to Netflix first then got signed us with "Unblock us". This makes it look like you have an American IP address. Then I subscribed to Hulu plus. We have more tv series, current and old along with tons of movies and kids stuff than we could ever need. I signed up with VUDU for online movie rentals as well. All together I am paying under $25 per month. It is great. Roku box is great but you will need to subscribe to unblock us to unlock all the American stuff like Hulu plus and American Netflix. Unblock us has very good instructions and support to change a couple router settings, then any device in the house that has wifi can log into Hulu plus and Netflix without any problems. If you want more info let me know. I just need to figure out how to get HBO.

Hal

[halwake]

All the current show you listed are on Hulu plus. Usually an hour after they are aired and you can select different episodes and watch them whenever you want.

[Seriak]

Have to watch unblockus as the android netflix app is having issues with unblockus. There is a workaround, but it would seem they don't like us getting American programming.

[intarsiabox]

Thank-you for all the replies. I was looking at something like unblockus as the only real complaint about the Roku and other such boxes is the Canadian content. I also read that you can obtain a US credit card and use that to pay for the subscriptions to get the US content. I'll have to look into this a little more though as I'm not sure if my IP address would still cause problems or not. I was thinking of getting Hulu Plus and Netflix US and also dropping Telus as my ISP and going with Teksavvy instead.