Hackerman
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I was never into gaming or XBox so I never really understood the XBMC crowd but when I got busted for hacking, it was by DirecTV for reverse engineering the encryption of their Satellite TV card so TV has always been a pet of mine.
Although, I don't watch TV, a friend was talking about how there was a hack for the new Amazon Fire TV stick so I did a little research, went to Best Buy and bought a standard Fire TV stick and in less than an hour, I was watching free TV. It's not really a hack. It's more of a side load. The Amazon bootloader is replaced with another which enables us to boot into an OS called KODI (this is the new name for the old XBMC (XBox Media Center).
From there, it's really just a menu. A sort of consolidator of all the audio and video content that is available on the entire internet. Legal AND illegal so you have your choice if your guilt or morals don't allow you to view downloaded content, there is plenty of legal content (which is what I am discussing here and now).
I have really just started playing with it and I am totally amazed at the KODI setup. It is very well laid out, easy to operate, has more features and options available than any set top box I have ever seen (and, I have seen plenty for all the years I used to hack TV boxes). Kudos to the people who put KODI together because it is really well done. Just about anyone with minimal computer ability could do this without any real learning curve. It's pretty simple
The reason I brought it up here is that amount of content that is available is amazing. Everything from old episodes of Lost in Space and I Love Lucy to current streaming TV from all the latest channels. Not to mention, every movie ever made. Although, I am against people watching commercial television, I do watch an occasional Leave it to Beaver or one of the other classics (without commercials, of course). LOL
In one of the add-ons that is available for KODI, I found a considerable amount of Stoner TV channels. LOL Along with all the classic Cheech and Chong stuff and The Cannabis Kid (If you have not seen The Cannabis Kid, it's pretty good), it also has a bunch of pot related TV channels. Who would have guessed that there are TV channels totally dedicated to pot.
Most of them are just YouTube channels but some of them are actually very well produced talk shows centering around cannabis. So far, I have found..
Weedmaps TV
Greenhouse Seeds TV
High Times TV
Nug Porn TV (this one was pretty funny)
Strain Hunters TV
Stonerr420 TV
Cannabis Channel
Just wondering if anyone else is into this.
Although, I don't watch TV, a friend was talking about how there was a hack for the new Amazon Fire TV stick so I did a little research, went to Best Buy and bought a standard Fire TV stick and in less than an hour, I was watching free TV. It's not really a hack. It's more of a side load. The Amazon bootloader is replaced with another which enables us to boot into an OS called KODI (this is the new name for the old XBMC (XBox Media Center).
From there, it's really just a menu. A sort of consolidator of all the audio and video content that is available on the entire internet. Legal AND illegal so you have your choice if your guilt or morals don't allow you to view downloaded content, there is plenty of legal content (which is what I am discussing here and now).
I have really just started playing with it and I am totally amazed at the KODI setup. It is very well laid out, easy to operate, has more features and options available than any set top box I have ever seen (and, I have seen plenty for all the years I used to hack TV boxes). Kudos to the people who put KODI together because it is really well done. Just about anyone with minimal computer ability could do this without any real learning curve. It's pretty simple
The reason I brought it up here is that amount of content that is available is amazing. Everything from old episodes of Lost in Space and I Love Lucy to current streaming TV from all the latest channels. Not to mention, every movie ever made. Although, I am against people watching commercial television, I do watch an occasional Leave it to Beaver or one of the other classics (without commercials, of course). LOL
In one of the add-ons that is available for KODI, I found a considerable amount of Stoner TV channels. LOL Along with all the classic Cheech and Chong stuff and The Cannabis Kid (If you have not seen The Cannabis Kid, it's pretty good), it also has a bunch of pot related TV channels. Who would have guessed that there are TV channels totally dedicated to pot.
Most of them are just YouTube channels but some of them are actually very well produced talk shows centering around cannabis. So far, I have found..
Weedmaps TV
Greenhouse Seeds TV
High Times TV
Nug Porn TV (this one was pretty funny)
Strain Hunters TV
Stonerr420 TV
Cannabis Channel
Just wondering if anyone else is into this.