{"id":3989,"date":"2015-08-23T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2015-08-22T22:38:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T02:38:53","slug":"shomi-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=3989","title":{"rendered":"Shomi – First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Shomi<\/a> has been made available to all Canadians I thought perhaps i’d give you my first impressions on this service. <\/p>\n

I started using Shomi<\/a> a few months back when I switched from Bell to Rogers and I currently get it for free with my cable package. But I don’t think if i’d pay $8.99 per month for the service. <\/p>\n

Although I can access the service conveniently via by set top box and view content without it counting towards my download\/upload limit, I still have issues with the service in regards to content.<\/p>\n

Like the Canadian version of Netflix, Shomi<\/a> has a limited catalogue of television series and film. And I happen to already own the vast majority of my favourite films on the service.<\/p>\n

On the other hand Hollywood Suite<\/a> is being offered to me at $5.95 per month and features quite a lot of films, including some on demand. And Crave TV<\/a> has a significant amount of television series i’d be interested in at $4 per month, but the later would count towards my download\/upload limit. <\/p>\n

If Crave TV<\/a> was offered via Roger’s set top box i’d go for it, in a heartbeat. But Crave TV<\/a> is operated by Bell Media, Roger’s competition. And they’re only going to start offering the service to the rest of Canada on January 1st, 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping Shomi<\/a> will expand their selection considerably to compete but I seriously doubt it will happen for some time because of licensing. <\/p>\n

Netflix Canada<\/a> have been plagued by licensing issues that have kept them from offering as many titles as their American counterparts and i’m guessing that both Shomi<\/a> and Crave TV<\/a> will be subjected to the same limitations.<\/p>\n

I’m definitely going to keep checking Shomi<\/a> for new content. But I suspect Crave TV<\/a> will win me over by February because it has South Park, Little Britain, Monty Python and several music documentary series like Classic Albums and the INXS television mini-series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Shomi has been made available to all Canadians I thought perhaps i’d give you my first impressions on this service. I started using Shomi a few months back when I switched from Bell to Rogers and I currently get it for free with my cable package. But I don’t think if i’d pay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,8],"tags":[168,1080,647,1079,1081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}