Will Crave TV work with Vmedia?

[sradonic]

if you install KODI and then download the genesis and 1channel apps - you will have every thing crave tv offers and more for free.. save your money.

[Hacksaw2085]

if you install KODI and then download the genesis and 1channel apps - you will have every thing crave tv offers and more for free.. save your money.

Unless you prefer to obtain your content legally. Then send the $5 on CraveTV

[days101]

Bell just announced four more TV providers offering CraveTV! Vmedia isn't one of them

[alexb]

Bell just announced four more TV providers offering CraveTV! Vmedia isn't one of them

You beat me to it!

It would be nice if we could get an update.

[leshka]

we should be able to offer it in March.

[Hbombs]

wasn't sure where else to post this:

http://mobilesyrup.com/2015/03/12/cr...all-canadians/


CRTC decision will force Shomi, CraveTV owners to offer programming to all Canadians

Daniel Bader
March 12, 2015 1:52pm




Canadians may soon be able to subscribe to on-demand services like Shomi or CraveTV over an internet connection from any provider.
At the CRTC’s Let’s Talk TV hearing today, Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said that the framework for online and cable/satellite video must be changed to align more closely with the way Canadians are watching content.
In addition to encouraging content producers to create more Canadian content, and relaxing the quotas around that content during daytime and non-primetime television, the CRTC said it plans to prevent companies like Bell, Rogers and **** from offering exclusive content through traditional cable/satellite infrastructure if it is not made available to all Canadians over the internet.
“The CRTC is introducing an important change to ensure Canadian video-on-demand services can compete on an equal footing with online video services. Canadian video-on-demand services will be able to offer exclusive content as long as they are available to all Canadians over the Internet. This means that Canadians would not need to have a cable or satellite subscription in order to access these services,” the ruling said.
For hybrid OTT (over-the-top) offerings like Shomi and CraveTV, this ruling will gravely impact their business model, as the companies’ owners, Rogers, **** and Bell respectively, have argued that the services’ low prices are directly impacted by their association with more lucrative monthly television packages.
The ruling states that Shomi and CraveTV, among others, would be allowed to remain cable-only as long as the content they provide in their subscriptions is made available to competing services. This would fly in the face of the strategies set out by the services’ parent companies, who have invested millions of dollars in acquiring exclusives from Amazon, HBO and Showtime.
The decision comes after a joint complaint was submitted to the CRTC by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC) claiming that Shomi and CraveTV contravened Canadian television rules by being withheld from customers that didn’t subscribe to certain television or internet packages.
The regulatory body is calling for comments submitted about the decision, the deadline of which is April 27th. It’s unclear whether Bell or Rogers/**** will make changes to the subscription requirements before that time, but one thing is crystal: if the changes go through, pricing for either service will go up.

[rwilly]

here is the jist of the crtc.... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r299...content-ma#end

[gabriel_ko]

we should be able to offer it in March.

any updates? It's already mid-March leshka !

[leshka]

Still working with Bell. There were some pre-conditions to us getting Crave that delayed it.

[gabriel_ko]

Thank you ! I hope is coming soon!

[gabriel_ko]

Any updates?? It's almost April now....

[days101]

Still nothing?

[MattVMedia]

Hi,

Just a quick update. We're very close, Crave TV is definitely on it's way to VMedia. More information will be available in the coming weeks as we ready for launch.

[mikesjnb]

Why does it take so long ? Do u have to kiss bells but more come on ? Weeks away so in June for sure right ?