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Does anyone know if there is any way to get Watch TV channel without having Sky/Virgin TV? Any SmartTV apps that support it on an LG TV.

The Strain has just started, itching to watch it since I finished reading the trilogy a few months back.
 
Why would you want to watch it if you've read the books? Do you really want to be one of those annoying ****s that whine about how the story has been altered, how the characters are completely different, or just how much better the book is and how bad the TV show is?

Please, don't be one of those people :( :p.
 
Bloomfield said:
Why would you want to watch it if you've read the books?.
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What a bizarre thing to say. I've read all of GOT but thoroughly enjoy the TV series. I've read loads of graphic novels but like to watch the movie/TV adaptions.

By your logic if anyone has ever read a book of a movie/tv series, they'd never want to watch it, it just doesn't make any sense to me.

If you enioy the source material, by watching it on screen it's expanding on the original experience.
 
The strain can be watched (pay per episode) on iTunes - new episodes added early Thursday mornings afaik.

EDIT: Though just remembered why I try and avoid itunes... pathetically slow propagation speeds when a new item becomes available :S (amongst other things).
 
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Rroff said:
The strain can be watched (pay per episode) on iTunes - new episodes added early Thursday mornings afaik.

EDIT: Though just remembered why I try and avoid itunes... pathetically slow propagation speeds when a new item becomes available :S (amongst other things).
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Can't get itunes on my smart TV :(
 
SixTwoSix said:
Yeah...will just wait til it hits one of the big 3 streaming services.
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Hats off to you. So bloody rare, yet refreshing to see somebody who doesn't feel that "the world owes them a living" and they have some "right" to see whatever they want without the need to pay.
I do subscribe to Sky and only watch programs that appear on that platform or terrestrial.

We're certainly in the minority I know.
 
stoofa said:
Hats off to you. So bloody rare, yet refreshing to see somebody who doesn't feel that "the world owes them a living" and they have some "right" to see whatever they want without the need to pay.
I do subscribe to Sky and only watch programs that appear on that platform or terrestrial.

We're certainly in the minority I know.
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I wasn't always like this, i've changed my view and perspective on digital media a lot in the last few years. I admit, i'm impatient and hate waiting but these days, it's never more than a few weeks (normally days/hours) after the US gets it that it's possible to get it legally.
 
SixTwoSix said:
What a bizarre thing to say. I've read all of GOT but thoroughly enjoy the TV series. I've read loads of graphic novels but like to watch the movie/TV adaptions.

By your logic if anyone has ever read a book of a movie/tv series, they'd never want to watch it, it just doesn't make any sense to me.

If you enioy the source material, by watching it on screen it's expanding on the original experience.
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I like how you ignored the rest of the post.
 
stoofa said:
Hats off to you. So bloody rare, yet refreshing to see somebody who doesn't feel that "the world owes them a living" and they have some "right" to see whatever they want without the need to pay.
I do subscribe to Sky and only watch programs that appear on that platform or terrestrial.

We're certainly in the minority I know.
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Would have less sympathy with someone pirating it in this case as as it can be downloaded on itunes legally but life is too short - I have no sympathy for media copyright holders who don't make an effort to get content out in a reasonably accessible fashion if people do acquire it by other mean.
 
stoofa said:
Hats off to you. So bloody rare, yet refreshing to see somebody who doesn't feel that "the world owes them a living" and they have some "right" to see whatever they want without the need to pay.
I do subscribe to Sky and only watch programs that appear on that platform or terrestrial.

We're certainly in the minority I know.
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For the most part I'm the same, except for US comedies; so many of the good ones never make it over here (or when they do it's years later). Instead it's just Big Bang Theory, New Girl, King of Queens and whatever the hell else they can mix some canned laughter over and call 'comedy'.
 
Just had a thought, The Strain is available on itunes...is this streaming only?

Could I buy, download, put onto memory stick and play through my TV, do they have this option?
 
Its downloadable but its DRM protected so you'd need a device officially authorized to play iTunes content or connect the TV upto the PC :S
 
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