Comments on: Rogers On Demand Online: Coming soon to a computer near you

By: dan

dan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:47:10 +0000

Thanks for the article. I just found out and signed up. Video flows nicely however of course the fear lingers that this will end up on a rogers bill haha. But you’re article confirmed that it is not a fee service.

Thanks.

By: Ben Lucier

Ben Lucier — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:52:33 +0000

@Mike, @Robb: Thanks for the feedback.

@aou: You’re absolutely right… but I’ve used the content providers directly and I think they leave something to be desired, from an audio and a video point of view. In addition, all of them had video stuttering issues that I did not experience when trying out the Rogers On Demand service. Thanks for chiming in!

By: aou

aou — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:01:32 +0000

CTV, Global, CBC and others are already making their content available online to Canadians. So far – programming of them altogether is way better than one from Rogers. And you don’t have to be a Roger’s customer to whatch it.
Here is the list: http://diyfreetv.blogspot.com/2009/01/no-hulu-in-canada-no-problem.html

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Rogers on Demand Online - Moving the TV experience online | Think Forward — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:46:02 +0000

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By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:01:16 +0000

Interesting. I don’t watch cable any longer as everything I currently watch is available online. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Applications and service add-ons’ over internet are changing the way the world operates. Our data infrastructure here in Canada needs some major bandwidth to push all the 1’s and 0’s out to the homes… will be interesting to see where this is all going… I may try this out… undecided yet. MB Fibernetics Corp

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uberVU - social comments — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:37:31 +0000

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By: Robb

Robb — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:08:46 +0000

Thanks for the write up Ben. I am looking forward to giving this a whirl. I don’t watch much other than new, HD content though, so it will be interesting to see if I can get use of it of not.
I can say for sure an iPhone app that allows 3G streaming of this content would probably entice me a lot more than using it at my desktop where I already have an eyeTV 250.