With sufficient bandwidth anything is possible online it seems. I have never invested in cable TV and after nearly four years without a working TV during which I watched DVD’s on my computer I finally invested in an LCD TV once the cost reached my price range. I spent the first 16 years of my life without TV in fact I’m old enough that I predate the first Canadian TV broadcast. Two years later I went off to college where TV was again unavailable the dorm TV’s being monopolized by my Jewish neighbours who insisted on watching American Sports channels in which I had no interest. My first TV was bought years later during a visit from my Mother so that she could watch her soap operas. From then until now I managed on what rabbit ears and a loop could pull off the airways. After 4 years of no TV I now find TV commercials insufferable. Therefore, when I attempted to watch Flashpoint on Friday night I was turned off both by the interminable commercials and the poor reception.
This morning I discovered that although CBS will not allow Canadians to watch their programming online the show is available online at CTV here:
http://watch.ctv.ca/flashpoint/season-1/flashpoint-ep-101-scorpio/#clip64083
however whereas programming on CBC is commercial-free on CTV the program is interrupted every 10 or 15 minutes by a commercial which forces one to reset the full-screen option. Despite all this I must agree that this is a good show which I will probably watch again. And if you’d rather spend your money the show is also available as a paid download on iTunes.
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