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In a landmark international licensing agreement, each episode of the highly anticipated new Star Trek series will be available to Netflix members exclusively in the 188 countries within 24 hours of the United States premiere. Further, all 727 existing episodes within the Star Trek television library – spanning from The Original Series, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine to Voyager and Enterprise – will be available on Netflix around the globe by the end of 2016.* * except Canada, where it will be exclusively on CraveTV, Bell Media’s streaming video-on-demand service. 
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Jul 18, 2016 21:37
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gently caress the gay rear end media landscape in this country
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Jul 18, 2016 21:42
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Is it a gay-rear end media landscape, or a gay rear end-media landscape?
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Jul 18, 2016 21:53
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Both seem relevant to current media standards.
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Jul 18, 2016 21:54
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That depends on the state of the Chuck Tingle exclusivity agreement.
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Jul 18, 2016 21:56
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less than three posted:* except Canada, where it will be exclusively on CraveTV, Bell Media’s streaming video-on-demand service. Also the US, where CBS is putting the new series on their own SVOD service instead (the back catalog, as I understand it, is non-exclusively licensed, so if the new series turns out to be a lemon Nothing Will Change.) Mederlock posted:gently caress the gay rear end media landscape in this country Competition: only a good thing when we like the people that win.
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Jul 18, 2016 22:34
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I dislike exclusivity deals in general, even though it's just the name of the game. And every cent less I pay to one of the major Canadian telecom/cable companies, the happier I am.
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Jul 19, 2016 00:10
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Is there an ISP in Toronto that has really low latency? I'm on Teksavvy (Rogers) right now and getting ~15ms to https://www.google.ca which isn't bad but then again I have to assume Google has a server ~1ms from where I live midtown. 25Mb/s downstream would be fine but obviously the more the better. I just got Bell to wire me for fibre so I'll have that option in a couple weeks once it's all hooked up to the main office. No Beanfield here.
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Jul 19, 2016 00:41
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Beanfield Alternately, anyone offering actual fiber in your building. Edit: welp. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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Jul 19, 2016 00:46
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less than three posted:In a landmark international licensing agreement, each episode of the highly anticipated new Star Trek series will be available to Netflix members exclusively in the 188 countries within 24 hours of the United States premiere. Further, all 727 existing episodes within the Star Trek television library – spanning from The Original Series, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine to Voyager and Enterprise – will be available on Netflix around the globe by the end of 2016.* You didn't post a link, so i want to doubt the veracity of your post... ... except that I live in Canada. 
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Jul 19, 2016 01:44
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I haven't used Crave, but Bell's in-house browser streaming has always been abysmal compared to the American networks they geoblocked.
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Jul 19, 2016 03:43
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Mister Macys posted:You didn't post a link, so i want to doubt the veracity of your post... http://www.startrek.com/article/international-broadcasters-set-for-new-star-trek-series
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Jul 19, 2016 04:50
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less than three posted:In a landmark international licensing agreement, each episode of the highly anticipated new Star Trek series will be available to Netflix members exclusively in the 188 countries within 24 hours of the United States premiere. Further, all 727 existing episodes within the Star Trek television library – spanning from The Original Series, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine to Voyager and Enterprise – will be available on Netflix around the globe by the end of 2016.* Don't forget that your southern hick neighbors have the same issue. You have to buy into CBS's streaming service to get it down here. At least you guys have the option to move to the UK and pretend to be British. 
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Jul 19, 2016 13:34
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Internaut! posted:Is there an ISP in Toronto that has really low latency? I'm on Teksavvy (Rogers) right now and getting ~15ms to https://www.google.ca which isn't bad but then again I have to assume Google has a server ~1ms from where I live midtown. 25Mb/s downstream would be fine but obviously the more the better. They probably don't, actually; as far as I know Google has no datacentres in Canada. That said, I get 7ms to google.ca from Guelph on TekSavvy ADSL.
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Jul 19, 2016 14:27
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I would be genuinely curious to see how many people subscribe to Crave nationwide. Is it even 1,000,000?
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Jul 19, 2016 21:02
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slidebite posted:I would be genuinely curious to see how many people subscribe to Crave nationwide. Is it even 1,000,000? It had approximately 730,000 a year ago, according to the star.
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Jul 19, 2016 21:04
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I give a friend guff for subscribing to one of them, but she wants to watch The Sopranos.
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Jul 19, 2016 21:11
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At this point if you're paying for cable you're dumb and BWM but I guess those attributes are shared by 99% of Canadians.
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Jul 19, 2016 21:12
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mediaphage posted:It had approximately 730,000 a year ago, according to the star. Probably artificially inflated by all the subscriptions they hand out for "free" (ie: Bell gives it to subscribers of TMN.)
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Jul 19, 2016 21:13
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Next time I visit my folks in Australia, I should set up a VPN server on an rPi and VPN into it whenever I want to watch something geocoded. Fucks sake.
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Jul 19, 2016 21:48
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My parents have Crave whereas I completely cut the cord 5 years ago. That being said, in a strange reversal, Canadian Netflix is the only one with Force Awakens.
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Jul 19, 2016 22:34
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It is interesting though how many non geek people I have talked to about ways to cut the cable and get various tv shows or sports streams. Cable companies have got to know their time is limited before the majority cut cable and are just trying to gouge us as much as possible. Meanwhile, since most cable companies are ALSO ISPs, they set the expectations as low as possible for their internet services.
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Jul 19, 2016 23:35
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bunnyofdoom posted:My parents have Crave whereas I completely cut the cord 5 years ago. That being said, in a strange reversal, Canadian Netflix is the only one with Force Awakens. Netflix entered a partnership with Disney a while ago.
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Jul 20, 2016 02:05
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Slightly on-topic but does anyone know how to get Rogers to stop snail mailing me spam twice a month? It's addressed mail so Canada Post has to deliver it but it's addressed to "Resident". I have never had any service with Rogers.
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Jul 20, 2016 03:35
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EngineerJoe posted:Slightly on-topic but does anyone know how to get Rogers to stop snail mailing me spam twice a month? It's addressed mail so Canada Post has to deliver it but it's addressed to "Resident". I have never had any service with Rogers. I think this would entirely depend on your province. Bell does the same and regularly sends me mail addressed to "Better service for the residents of (my address)". It infuriates me that not only paper is wasted to print this lying drivel, but there is no way to opt out. I tried complaining directly to them, no good. I tried reporting them to the customer protection agency for Quebec, but I don't think they reply to their automated forms. I'll have to actually phone to know anything, I think.
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Jul 20, 2016 03:43
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Need to find a way to Return to Sender.
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Jul 20, 2016 03:59
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I'm in Ontario. Its easy to return to sender but I imagine that just gets shredded.
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Jul 20, 2016 04:21
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Mister Macys posted:Netflix entered a partnership with Disney a while ago.
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Jul 20, 2016 16:16
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less than three posted:In a landmark international licensing agreement, each episode of the highly anticipated new Star Trek series will be available to Netflix members exclusively in the 188 countries within 24 hours of the United States premiere. Further, all 727 existing episodes within the Star Trek television library – spanning from The Original Series, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine to Voyager and Enterprise – will be available on Netflix around the globe by the end of 2016.* CraveTv isn't bad (It's part of my cable package) but for the fact it has maybe the worst interface in the history of humanity, it loads worse then a website since like 1999.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:36
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What do you expect them to do? Make it so good you watch it instead of cable, and stop watching commercials!?!
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Jul 20, 2016 22:17
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Mister Macys posted:What do you expect them to do? Make it so good you watch it instead of cable, and stop watching commercials!?! Is it the interface of a streaming service that makes people make that decision, or the available content for the price?
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Jul 20, 2016 22:22
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Both. I'm more than certain that the cartel has a vested interest in preventing any customer preference for the on demand system of television viewing. Subscription and ad revenue is just too good to give up without a fight. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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Jul 21, 2016 00:34
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less than three posted:In a landmark international licensing agreement, each episode of the highly anticipated new Star Trek series will be available to Netflix members exclusively in the 188 countries within 24 hours of the United States premiere. Further, all 727 existing episodes within the Star Trek television library – spanning from The Original Series, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine to Voyager and Enterprise – will be available on Netflix around the globe by the end of 2016.* so this is not true it turns out. Seriously, watching DS9 on Canadian Netflix. They all are here. Including the Animated Series!
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Jul 21, 2016 03:35
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Dallan Invictus posted:Is it the interface of a streaming service that makes people make that decision, or the available content for the price? I think it's both, but with an added layer of contempt against the Canadian Cartel due to their entirely deserved reputation. Remember we're only a year since the days where Bell and Rogers were trying to kill Netflix (and each other) through purchasing exclusive showing rights to their own services. quote:BCE’s Bell Media launched CraveTV in December while Shomi, a joint venture of Rogers and Shaw, launched in November. The services both offer thousands of hours of television programming – along with movies in the case of Shomi – for a monthly fee. (BCE owns 15 per cent of The Globe and Mail.) If you want to stream show A/B/C you can only do it on CraveTV! CraveTV only available if you're a subscriber of Bell TV. If you want to stream show X/Y/Z you can only do it on Shomi! Shomi only available if you're a subscriber of Rogers/Shaw. They tried to have their cake and eat it too, forcing anybody who wanted to stream their exclusive content to also pay for their TV services. The CRTC eventually slapped them down a bit, so now they're ~forced~ to offer their subpar streaming services to everybody, but are still free to purchase exclusive rights for content.
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Jul 21, 2016 05:09
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The really annoying thing is HBO online streaming being unavailable unless you pay the $20 or whatever on top of the regular cable. It's such a pisser.
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Jul 21, 2016 05:27
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Mister Macys posted:Both. I'm more than certain that the cartel has a vested interest in preventing any customer preference for the on demand system of television viewing. A fight that they're (slowly) losing, which might be why they're acquiring content people want to watch for their own streaming services. We may have to agree to disagree that "improving the UI" would win them more customers than "improving the content library" or "cutting the price", because neither of us have market research data at hand, but if Bell wanted Crave to stay terrible why bother with buying highly anticipated shows to put on it? Aside from pissing off nerds, which is fun but probably not worth millions of dollars. Netflix has a great UI/UX but I struggle to think it would be a market leader if it hadn't had the content library it did from the beginning (see the people complaining now that it's lost some of that content to other services or broadcasters deciding to keep it for their own streaming services.) Content is king, etc. less than three posted:The CRTC eventually slapped them down a bit, so now they're ~forced~ to offer their subpar streaming services to everybody, but are still free to purchase exclusive rights for content. I am keenly aware of the history of this situation (though I'm not sure how much more you think they should have been slapped down when it comes to SVOD specifically). My point is simply: things like this Star Trek business are what "Bell should compete with Netflix instead of whining to the CRTC for special treatment" means. This is what was asked for. Crave and Shomi already cost less than Netflix now that Netflix has finally killed all our grandfather plans (though they have to collect HST and Netflix doesn't, which may alter the math a bit), which leaves content and UI as the bases of competition. Bell has more money than they do access to coding talent (particularly in comparison with Netflix) so it doesn't surprise me that they're going for content, even if that wasn't what everyone else competing in this space (Amazon, Hulu, other broadcasters) was already doing.
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Jul 21, 2016 05:56
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Don't mind me, I'm just being somewhat facetious about the UI thing. Also, The cartel is my Carthage, and I am the forums Cato. If I were them (and as cynical as I am while typing this), I would totally want my customers thinking it's easier to just flick channels with a remote over and over again, and suffer through paid ads than ever enjoy a commercial free experience. If the shittiness of my service causes customers to associate it with all streaming services, that's fine. Anything to poison competition. There's money to be made. Any Pavlovian trick Marketing can think of...  Rogers delenda est Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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Jul 21, 2016 06:44
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priznat posted:The really annoying thing is HBO online streaming being unavailable unless you pay the $20 or whatever on top of the regular cable. It's not even the same as HBO Go is in the US. When you get it down there you have access to literally any HBO has created ever.
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Jul 21, 2016 14:37
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EngineerJoe posted:Slightly on-topic but does anyone know how to get Rogers to stop snail mailing me spam twice a month? It's addressed mail so Canada Post has to deliver it but it's addressed to "Resident". I have never had any service with Rogers. I've been fighting this battle for 3 years. It started out with an addressed admail every month, along with a regular unaddressed one. After a year, I told them to stop sending the addressed one. Which resulted in me getting 2 per month, because Rogers. This year I got annoyed with them again and have been complaining more and I'm now up to 4 letters per month. Every time I complain, after they argue that they can't stop them because they aren't addressed...even though they are. So eventually they say ok, we will make sure they stop but it might take up to X number of days for it to happen. I'm sure you can guess at what happens after the deadline, every time for the past few months. The last response from them was Rogers posted:The letters should finally stop coming. So far, I've received 3 more adverts since that message. I have very little faith that they will actually stop them this time as well. It sucks because Canada Post can't do anything and I can't find anyone else to complain to about it. I supposedly stopped all the unaddressed adverts for my postal code, but I don't get those anyways so who knows if they were lying about that as well.
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That's incredibly bad. I almost feel like you could take legal measures to get them to stop.
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