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The CW's New Apple TV App Doesn't Require a Cable Subscription to Watch
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Not if you buy PIA apr. $ 35 a year or any VPN app , which puts you into any country they have servers in.
You can by pass geo-restrictions and blackouts of local football , hockey etc. games.
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Have not tried if PIA works with t eApple TV4.
You can get around it by using your computers VPN and then stream via airplay.
Depends on you connection if it then as good as direct streaming.
I've tried using some of the channel apps on Apple TV, but I'm now so used to commercial-free viewing that I can't stomach the constant advertising. So unless CW offers a paid, commercial-free option, I won't use the app. In fact, all of these TV channel apps are just making me want to go back to cable and a DVR.
I like The Flash well enough, but only when I'm in a certain mood. Too much of the dialogue feels forced to target a tween/teen audience, and I can only take so much of that in a sitting. I love Agents of SHIELD, though.
Can anyone confirm if the stream is 720p or 1080p, and if the audio is DD5.1? The lack of 5.1 surround in Hulu has annoyed me for years, but as I try more and more apps on my 
TV I'm finding lack of 5.1 to be common (despite the source material having it).
TV I'm finding lack of 5.1 to be common (despite the source material having it).
Meh, it's amazing how people are fascinated by a company repackaging web streams for an Apple TV app and call it revolutionary. I am sure you could watch CW content online for years before this.
BTW, this is how Boxee Box used to work 6 years ago, taking online web streams and aggregating them, without needing someone to develop an app for each channel.
BTW, this is how Boxee Box used to work 6 years ago, taking online web streams and aggregating them, without needing someone to develop an app for each channel.
This is excellent, but...here's hoping that CW also figured out a way to increase the number of advertisers. The only thing worse than being forced to sit through six minutes of commercials with each break is sitting through the SAME commercials with each break.
It's a US network, what did you expect?
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Nope, the only legal way to watch shows online, on tv, on a mobile device (not a computer), you had to pay, with this option, you don't have to pay anymore, its OnDemand service, you don't need cable or an antenna to watch, just internet service, it's like the "old" days when tv networks were OTA (well they still are, but who watches that way now anyway?)
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Can anyone confirm if the stream is 720p or 1080p, and if the audio is DD5.1? The lack of 5.1 surround in Hulu has annoyed me for years, but as I try more and more apps on my
Why is that such a problem?
Great news! Let's hope more and more channels will follow suit. Probably the most annoying thing of all time is trying to watch a stream and having to have a cable or sat subscription to watch it.
Not proposing equality in everything. Yea, that'd be a fantasy and very boring.
Just to the point bladerunner2000 made, criticizing "celebrated misandry" is considered misogyny. We don't have to own it though.
Nature was very much in balance before homo sapiens came along. Despite our large brains and supposedly "critical thinking" we've managed to consume more resources by a large margin when compared to any other "animal" as well as eradicate other species. While fairness doesn't exist in nature, it is something humans shouldn't use to excuse their predatory instincts.
CW is probably being forced to expand viewership to increase ad revenue, which has probably fallen due to cord cutters and/or fewer cable subscriptions. I know we're down to basic cable + sports, CW is irrelevant and no one wants to add a package that contains it. Great if the more popular channels were to adopt this model, but I doubt it'll happen any day soon.
I think this might've been what Steve Jobs was talking about when he said that he had "solved the Apple TV" problem.
Unfortunately he wasn't around long enough to do to TV what he had done for the Music industry.
Had no idea that City had it's own app. Thanks for the update. And my wife even works for CityTV.
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We have been thinking about cutting the cord (we're with Telus) for a while now. That's one reason we got a couple of Apple TVs.
It's a decent app, much better than any previous iteration. I was worried about how to watch the FIVE shows on there I follow when the Hulu deal ended. I thought I was going to have to buy each show at the beginning of the season, but thankfully this happened.
I put the Supergirl episode "World's Finest" on in the background Thursday night. There are some sound quality issues -- it sounds like a streaming show from my computer from four years ago. But other than that, it's pretty good.
Maybe by tvOS 4 or 5 Apple can create some sort of entertainment shell app that pulls in what you have access to from all your apps and create a monster TV service out of it. The Siri search functions that work across all platforms are a major step in that direction. But basically I'd love to see something sorta like the Sling app that would allow me to plug in various providers (say CW, Comedy Central, HBO) and then maybe you could also view by title, actors, type, etc. like iTunes does for songs.
I put the Supergirl episode "World's Finest" on in the background Thursday night. There are some sound quality issues -- it sounds like a streaming show from my computer from four years ago. But other than that, it's pretty good.
Maybe by tvOS 4 or 5 Apple can create some sort of entertainment shell app that pulls in what you have access to from all your apps and create a monster TV service out of it. The Siri search functions that work across all platforms are a major step in that direction. But basically I'd love to see something sorta like the Sling app that would allow me to plug in various providers (say CW, Comedy Central, HBO) and then maybe you could also view by title, actors, type, etc. like iTunes does for songs.
Looking good...
Reminds me of SBS on-demand app..
Hopefully more and more will follow....... if your are cable companies who are also proving services, then release a fee app with no login required.... The act of needing to authenticate these days to just watch something on AppleTV doesn't achieve any reason why they do it.. It's not like u can grab it anyway since its streamed.
And only serves *their* purpose to see who's done what to which device. Control and protect..
Reminds me of SBS on-demand app..
Hopefully more and more will follow....... if your are cable companies who are also proving services, then release a fee app with no login required.... The act of needing to authenticate these days to just watch something on AppleTV doesn't achieve any reason why they do it.. It's not like u can grab it anyway since its streamed.
And only serves *their* purpose to see who's done what to which device. Control and protect..
I think the person means that now the CW shows can't be watched through Hulu anymore now that they made a deal with Netflix. The new deal means new seasons will be available on Netflix a few days after the season finale, but it also means that the episodes will no longer be shown on Hulu.
you can use a VPN i use hotspot shield on my mac to watch contents from others countries on my apple tv, you just need to share you internet connection from your mac to the Apple tv
And I was sitting here stuck in fairytale land thinking tomorrow I'd log on Hulu and watch the flash. I guess it's off to random sites looking for it tomorrow unless the CW site adds the new episodes there. I'm with you, other than Gotham which I can watch on the fox site, I really didn't use Hulu for anything but CW.
Agreed alas CBS App requires a friggin paid subscription
Same here. It makes it all the more depressing to me they ONLY archive the 5 most recent episodes and not more or the entire series
Agreed alas CBS App requires a friggin paid subscription
That was the one thing that bothered me the most about the CBS app. They want $6/month to watch the same thing I could get OTA for free - complete with commercials. At least they offered a free 1-week trial. Thanks, but no thanks. Watching the Tonys was enough to remind me why I gave up network TV.
Just FYI. The AppleTV app won't work outside the USA even if using a USA account. The app requires location services to be switched on or it won't play any video, and thus it uses location and not your iTunes account country to determine playback.
Workarounds have already been described in this thread.
Workarounds have already been described in this thread.
I still got billed 3 days into the "FREE Trial" even after canceling....
Wasn't worth it to me since thankfully for the time being my 2 paid streaming services ( Netflix + Hulu ) as well as legally FREE Content elsewhere pretty well cover most shows I watch