The grand tour

[Leeroy]

We seem to have gone a little off-topic here chaps!

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[McXtravert]

I've got Kodi and love it.

Grew sick and tired of the mainstream media providers putting my bills up and up every year and messing me about with random extra charges all the time whilst the content on offer declined. And then the BBC with their TV tax... which by the way, I still pay.

Oh, as for being 'illegal'... amazon sold me the device that I have Kodi on. So on one hand they condone it, yet on the other they are happy to take my cash?

Got to love capitalism.

 

[SteveS]

Oh, as for being 'illegal'... amazon sold me the device that I have Kodi on. So on one hand they condone it, yet on the other they are happy to take my cash?

That's like saying "B&Q sold me the knife I slashed him with..."

Personally I just got fed up with the effort of trying to find decent quality for no money. Say what you like about Sky (declining quality of content, costs the earth, etc) they have a good product features-wise and for ease of use. Plus if you cancel them they'll phone you three times a week trying to get you back. Wait a couple of months and boom, the same service for peanuts...

 

[jord79]

I've got Kodi and love it.

Grew sick and tired of the mainstream media providers putting my bills up and up every year and messing me about with random extra charges all the time whilst the content on offer declined. And then the BBC with their TV tax... which by the way, I still pay.

Oh, as for being 'illegal'... amazon sold me the device that I have Kodi on. So on one hand they condone it, yet on the other they are happy to take my cash?

Got to love capitalism.

Last off topic post, I promise! The reason subscriptions keep going is is at least partly because of the losses incurred due to piracy. This also affects funding into quality programme production. It's a viscious cycle and ideally does need more policing. As you quite rightly say, Amazon will sell you a device that allows you to stream illegally. The devices themselves aren't illegal, it's just certain services that are and that puts too much responsibility on the end user to make the decision about whether what you're viewing is legit or not. A massive grey area. The truth is the more pirated material we watch, the less likely we are to see any new quality programming as the funds will diminish. There's capitalism and then there's theft.

 

[McXtravert]

agreed folks, back on topic.

Next episode out on Friday and a visit to Jo'burg. Would have preferred Cape Town myself but meh. Can imagine them in-front of the Soweto cooling towers

 

[Manders Mustang]

agreed folks, back on topic.

Next episode out on Friday and a visit to Jo'burg. Would have preferred Cape Town myself but meh. Can imagine them in-front of the Soweto cooling towers

Can't wait to be honest, that's my Friday after work ritual sorted :lol:

 

[Lone Survivor]

I'll watch it on Kodi

 

[goldengooner]

Last off topic post, I promise! The reason subscriptions keep going is is at least partly because of the losses incurred due to piracy. This also affects funding into quality programme production. It's a viscious cycle and ideally does need more policing. As you quite rightly say, Amazon will sell you a device that allows you to stream illegally. The devices themselves aren't illegal, it's just certain services that are and that puts too much responsibility on the end user to make the decision about whether what you're viewing is legit or not. A massive grey area. The truth is the more pirated material we watch, the less likely we are to see any new quality programming as the funds will diminish. There's capitalism and then there's theft.

Also would help if they made the cinema a bit more cheaper, and safer
A friend of mine, went with his Mrs to see the new JK Rowling thing, and had 8 teenagers talking and playing games on their phones, when he went up to them was then threatened
I have been with Sky for many years, yes they are not the cheapest but wipe the floor with Virgin, and Sky Q is a brilliant product. Also have Netflicks.
who remembers ITV Digital, got hacked so much they had to close down.
Also on eBay the "infamous" F5 box, but Sky are fairy on the ball
They have managed to stop HD on these boxes. at the moment
A mate of mine massive into the WWE had a box just for the PPV, now that their Network is only $10 a month for amazing amount of content, and Sky wanted £20 a time for the PPV on the Network $10 a month for everything.
So things can be sold cheaper and they now have over 2M people all over the world

 

[Manders Mustang]

Also would help if they made the cinema a bit more cheaper, and safer
A friend of mine, went with his Mrs to see the new JK Rowling thing, and had 8 teenagers talking and playing games on their phones, when he went up to them was then threatened
I have been with Sky for many years, yes they are not the cheapest but wipe the floor with Virgin, and Sky Q is a brilliant product. Also have Netflicks.
who remembers ITV Digital, got hacked so much they had to close down.
Also on eBay the "infamous" F5 box, but Sky are fairy on the ball
They have managed to stop HD on these boxes. at the moment
A mate of mine massive into the WWE had a box just for the PPV, now that their Network is only $10 a month for amazing amount of content, and Sky wanted £20 a time for the PPV on the Network $10 a month for everything.
So things can be sold cheaper and they now have over 2M people all over the world

From a guy who's got a best friend who's a "Hacker" and has a masters in Computer Science, everything on your computer is hackable, quite easily infact as well, or cloned etc, nothing is really 'safe' and nothing can really be 'stopped'. Everything is moving towards computer use, making it easier to 'hack' take Skygo for example; easy to re-stream content on that, Small investment but can support thousands.
Android Boxes, Hack Boxes, whatever you want to call them for TVs are good, and rarely can the streams be shut down, because of how they're hidden and how most corps use their algorithms to try and find them (Usually it's watermark hunting).

Blah blah blah, could go on forever, it's an Ethics thing at the end of the day. Do you care you're taking money of XYZ? Probably not.

 

[Mustang1878]

Also would help if they made the cinema a bit more cheaper, and safer
A friend of mine, went with his Mrs to see the new JK Rowling thing, and had 8 teenagers talking and playing games on their phones, when he went up to them was then threatened
I have been with Sky for many years, yes they are not the cheapest but wipe the floor with Virgin, and Sky Q is a brilliant product. Also have Netflicks.
who remembers ITV Digital, got hacked so much they had to close down.
Also on eBay the "infamous" F5 box, but Sky are fairy on the ball
They have managed to stop HD on these boxes. at the moment
A mate of mine massive into the WWE had a box just for the PPV, now that their Network is only $10 a month for amazing amount of content, and Sky wanted £20 a time for the PPV on the Network $10 a month for everything.
So things can be sold cheaper and they now have over 2M people all over the world

Just a pitty you cant use sky broadband to stream things on kodi :headbonk:

 

[FranzVonHoffer]

I'm really curious to see their impressions of the Aston Martin Vulcan. I'm 51 and thinking of putting a poster of it up on my bedroom wall.

 

[McXtravert]

Just a pitty you cant use sky broadband to stream things on kodi :headbonk:

wanna bet

 

[Manders Mustang]

wanna bet

VPN, VPN! :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[bobpies]

Looks like the mustang is in this weeks coming episode .
Just on that note last weeks was complete shite

 

[Jimboy2]

Agree with that. Was worse than new top gear. I do hope that was a one off.

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