Canadians looking for alternative ways to consume their media are having a pretty good month… Though much later than their southern US neighbors, in the last three weeks TiVo, Xbox 360 movie downloads, and now iTunes television downloads have been made available. iTunes TV purchases run $1.99 CAD which closely mirrors the US dollar. (For comparison, not everyone is pleased with Microsoft’s Points exchange rate.)
In other digital TV news, dedicated video download STB Vudu ($399) is also offering show purchases for $1.99 USD. However, until they significantly drop that hardware fee they won’t have many takers.
So, anybody want to suggest how I might hack iTunes so I can (pay for and) download Canadian TV shows? Or even just see what is available?
please please let Canadian Idol be one of those shows…
I assume it’s based on the originating IP address location and billing address. As to offerings, here’s what Apple’s posted:
Interesting to see Drawn Together up there. Perhaps they’ll have enough downloads (US & Canada) to run another season.
the discussion about who would be policing the canadian content produciton is valid:
http://mannys.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/are-our-canadian-networks-moving-south-or-just-our-content/
I just placed my order for a VUDU the other day. I was accepted in the VUDU Evangelist Program and figured $99 with $99 in VUDU credit was worth it to try it out.
Now I’ll just have to make space for it…
I’m on the road this week, but Melissa just told me a Vudu review unit arrived. Looking forward to checking it out. Though $400 still seems pretty steep – the $99 deal xdreamwalker got seems much more reasonable for the service. FYI There’s a promotion going on where you get a free Vudu with select Sharp HDTV purchases.
Does anyone know if you can get VUDU to work in Canada
Bought a vudu & tried it in Calgary with my isdn…did NOT work.