Got that IPTV and Sonarr/Radarr setup already cooking ;)

Right there with you! Though I must be honest, I spent a lot more time and energy on automating the thing than I expected. Now that it's up and running, it's bulletproof and very low touch. I'm now permanently out of the streaming ecosystem. Which is really testament to how badly these companies screwed up. I still subscribe to Spotify because I get access to everything for a fair price. Visual media streaming could have been the same thing, but no. They created 10 different competing services, constantly switching where content could be located. All the apps are different and many suck. They're full of DRM so I struggle to watch them on planes or car trips, depending on the service. They gave us a terrible experience and continue to jack up the prices. I'm out.

Hey @blackstampede now that is impressive!!

Edit: Also wondering if there are any guides, for a friend also.

@blackstampede any guides you would recommend? Asking for a friend

Interesting, do you mind elaborating? I’ve been contemplating something similar but not sure where to start.

I was with them for over ten years. Cancelled when they said I could share an account with my mom. Sorry, it's just not that good anymore and the prices have gone way up. It was time to get out of the pot.

Or even better the megathread linked on there for direct info: https://rentry.co/megathread

Why Canada? The artice says Netflix also used Canada to test its password sharing changes as well so it seems Canadians are a testing ground for Netflix for some reason

Well, Canadians have many biological similarities to humans, so they’re good candidates for a variety of experiments

I had noticed this as well. My theory is, they see us as a demographically similar market to the US but significantly smaller. So they can test their plans on us to get an idea of response before rolling it out to a larger American audience while taking a much smaller financial risk.

Canada (or some specific cities here) has long been used as a test market for all manner of things.

Probably because viewing habits are similar to the US, but not as large. So if the "testing" doesn't go well, they don't lose out as much as the bigger markets.

Why Canada

Corporate test markets are always in areas where the demographics cover many different targets. If you test in an area that leans heavily towards one demographic, mostly old people for example, then you don't get any data about how other groups view your change, like teenagers.

Canada is incredibly diverse but also small and with well defined boundaries.

Maybe we're too nice to REALLY complain so they do it here first to prepare U.S.A. Americans for it

Smaller sample size but similar enough culture to the states. Sometimes we gets apps first too before they try pushing it to 300+ million

Sorry, we are quiet and don't cause much of a fuss.

Cause statistics don't lie.

I used to be a farmer.

Same here. It's the same reason we dropped cable about 10 years ago.

Not enough value to justify the cost.