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Traveling With a Nexus 7 - NO WAY, GooglePlay it's a Shame asap you cross the border.

I got Two Nexus 7, then I fly to South America and give one to ma nephew, Ohh Surprise, NO GOOGLE PLAY Outside US.
Neither the Videos and eBooks I Purchased I can Open Outiside the USA.
More, some Apps Just "dissapear" from Launcher.
As soon I connected to a VPN with exit node AT USA, everithing comes back.
I Experienced similar Issues when removing the Simcard at my Previus Galaxy Nexus, but only for new content, no appg got hidden.
THIS IS A SHAME. WE MUST JOINT TO START A CLASS ACTION AGAINST GOOGLE ON THIS, NO MATTER IF WE LOST, AT LEAST EVERY BODY WILL KNOW THAT DISCRIMINATORY POLICY.

I Believe the restriction on certain media outside the US is more having to do with united states copyright laws in other countries or some such. I don't think its a -google- discrimination.
Anyway I am sure its frustrating and I would be a little disappointed as well.

Yeah...good luck with that.
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I think you will find it's a movie company restriction, nothing really to do with Google....
Ask a grown up if you don't understand the difference.

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Sorry to say but the world is bigger then the states. Almost every country has different laws/restrictions ect. Not half of all the options you'll have in the states work in Europe due to above. I'm waiting for the Nexus 7 to be released (in my country) to buy one but I know we will miss a lot of content. Be patient google is working to fix this (I hope).

Even Barnes & Noble require you to have a credit card with a US address before you can buy any books on your Nook.

Sideload EVERYTHING
There is always a workaround.

dparrothead1 said:
Even Barnes & Noble require you to have a credit card with a US address before you can buy any books on your Nook.
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And have fun trying to buy things while you're out of the country. It (the Nook) doesn't even have the decency to tell you that it's not available until after you order and it just doesn't work. Eventually, you see an email pop up on your phone telling you that your money doesn't spend since you aren't in the US.
At least they let you keep (and download) everything you already purchased.

Google is trying to expand, the problem is that everything requires a contract signed with the media rights holders. And those holders are different in every freaking country.
Google isn't restricting your access, they just don't have the legal ability to give you that stuff until all the contracts get signed. Cut them some slack.

AcostaJA said:
I got Two Nexus 7, then I fly to South America and give one to ma nephew, Ohh Surprise, NO GOOGLE PLAY Outside US.
Neither the Videos and eBooks I Purchased I can Open Outiside the USA.
More, some Apps Just "dissapear" from Launcher.
As soon I connected to a VPN with exit node AT USA, everithing comes back.
I Experienced similar Issues when removing the Simcard at my Previus Galaxy Nexus, but only for new content, no appg got hidden.
THIS IS A SHAME. WE MUST JOINT TO START A CLASS ACTION AGAINST GOOGLE ON THIS, NO MATTER IF WE LOST, AT LEAST EVERY BODY WILL KNOW THAT DISCRIMINATORY POLICY.
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Really? You have no understanding about content licencing do you? Ask iPhone 4 owners how Siri works for them outside the US. Oh right it doesn't for the same reasons.
Mods please lock this thread to stop the idiocracy.
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You either knew of these policies before hand or you didn't do your research before buying. In my opinion ignorance of policy is not at all a valid argument against a content provider. Google didn't force you to buy the product and they didn't force you to keep the product.
It's kind of like me buying peanut butter to use as an adhesive, then building an entire house using peanut butter instead of nails and glue for all material connections. Except the peanut butter would need to have "Not to be used for adhesive properties or as a construction material." But decide to use it anyway and then when my house starts falling apart I go on a derogatory defamation campaign and try to file a lawsuit demanding an injunction which would require Jif Peanut Butter Inc to start using epoxy resin in their peanut butter.
I understand you being frustrated but it's not googles fault and they didn't declare that the product would work in every place on Earth, they made it clear from the start that wasn't the case.
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The problem is that Google disables your content if you go outside the us. Can be really annoying if you purchase and download a lot of content to bring with you when traveling. This is not the case with amazon kindle or iTunes... You have to be pretty stupid to buy content in the play store IMHO, except apps of course.
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runemail said:
The problem is that Google disables your content if you go outside the us. Can be really annoying if you purchase and download a lot of content to bring with you when traveling. This is not the case with amazon kindle or iTunes... You have to be pretty stupid to buy content in the play store IMHO, except apps of course.
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i agree. iOS allows you to at least bring content out of the US. hell... they now have a movie and tv store where i am (manila). amazon kindle books are the same way. we could buy books from abroad and read them anywhere.
did you download the transformers movie offline and it still disappeared when you didnt have a US ip address? still looking for a non root non vpn offline solution for my nexus 7. even just for movies for the meantime as i can still use zinio for my magazines and kindle for my books.

THe world does not revolve around the U.S either. I live in Canada, I'm pretty sure I can confirm my Nexus 7 has full play capabilities.

Sigh. You guys heard of proxy? Try proxydroid. Problem done. Used my GT 10.1 in Brazil without any problems.
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akarol said:
Sigh. You guys heard of proxy? Try proxydroid. Problem done. Used my GT 10.1 in Brazil without any problems.
Sent from my amazing Nexus 7.
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still looking for a non root solution.
i can get google music though. since i was in the US when it started and i was able to register there. i can still access it even when i am not in the US. i can also do vpn on my macbook to buy music. just hoping some similar solution can be had for books magazines and movies.

I'm curious. For example, you 'own' the Transformer movie.
If the entire movie is downloaded to your device (or a book for that matter), vs. streaming, and you enter into a country where there are licensing restrictions on the movie, would it still show as being available or would it disappear?
Has anyone run into this scenario yet? My assumption from the OP's post signified that the content was being streamed and not already downloaded onto the device.
That would be akin to you buying a bunch of movies, TV shows, songs onto your iPhone/iPod, and as you travel around the world and you can only listen to them in 'certain countries'.
Cheers,
Kermee

Kermee said:
I'm curious. For example, you 'own' the Transformer movie.
If the entire movie is downloaded to your device (or a book for that matter), vs. streaming, and you enter into a country where there are licensing restrictions on the movie, would it still show as being available or would it disappear?
Has anyone run into this scenario yet? My assumption from the OP's post signified that the content was being streamed and not already downloaded onto the device.
That would be akin to you buying a bunch of movies, TV shows, songs onto your iPhone/iPod, and as you travel around the world and you can only listen to them in 'certain countries'.
Cheers,
Kermee
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Booted my Nexus 7 via VPN so I can get the credit on signing in. Downloaded the books offline. After I switched VPN off play books and magazines disappeared so I would say yes on those.
Didn't bother trying with the Transformers movie since download was slow and I wanted to play with my toy already.
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I can understand google preventing users from buying content when outside the covered areas but to prevent users from using the content they have purchased just because you connected to a wifi network outside the us is stupid. This makes a Nexus 7 a no no device for travelers. I love my Nexus 7 but not even Apple does this if you travel with your iPad and have books and magazines on your device you can enjoy them anywhere, after all you paid for the content. Google needs to fix this for travelers.

Google Play full not in supported country!

The first Nexus 4 that I purchased was using a vpn and my debit card issued in my country (Dominican Republic), I used to enter the google play web from my pc using the same vpn but one day i forget to turn the vpn on and for my surprise, when I went to the google play page I had full access to all the content like apps, movies, tv shows, music, magazines, and devices. Ever since I had been able to purchased a few more nexus 4 to friends.
At the same time my Play store (in the phone) got full access too. I don't know why nor how this happens but I totally like this. I have asked many friends to enter their play store to see if they had access to movies, books and such but they only had access to Apps and Games.
I FEEL LUCKY!
As for Google's Music service, I know it can be bypassed to work any place but lately I have been reading that some people couldnt use the new All Access service because they were in unsupported countries. I tried to subscribe today for the free trial and boom it works perfectly.
this is me been lucky or there is an explanation to this?
thanks.

Did you shipped the N4 to an American address like I did?
After I purchased the 2nd N4 for my colleague, Google assumed that I am either an American citizen or live in the States.
Since then I have also full access to the play store incl working wallet.
Funny part: I tried last time to download a localized application for Taiwan, Play store told me that this program is not available in my device country.
And this is only for 1 Google account.
Logged in with a second one, application was available.
Cheers
Tom
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Reporting that everyone who bought a Nexus 4 through the play store in Colombia can also access the us store without the need of a Vpn, including me. I haven't tried the music thingy because I don't care about it, but I guess it should work.
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tom1807 said:
Did you shipped the N4 to an American address like I did?
After I purchased the 2nd N4 for my colleague, Google assumed that I am either an American citizen or live in the States.
Since then I have also full access to the play store incl working wallet.
Funny part: I tried last time to download a localized application for Taiwan, Play store told me that this program is not available in my device country.
And this is only for 1 Google account.
Logged in with a second one, application was available.
Cheers
Tom
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nice! that is exactly what i did,,
also I gave a giftcard to my girlfriend like 1 month ago, and after redeeming she had access too.
She had a galaxy S2.

Google is no more using IP address to get the country of user. They stopped it about 3 months back. Since you used to use VPN to connect Google thought your country of origin is US and since now they have stopped checking IP's it doesn't know you are not from US.

pGuerrerox said:
nice! that is exactly what i did,,
also I gave a giftcard to my girlfriend like 1 month ago, and after redeeming she had access too.
She had a galaxy S2.
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wow, good to know. so im 1 n4 away from being able to access the full play store freely

That's nice. I've been trying to get the full access to the play store but I can't seem to do it. Anyone know how to?

atulalvenkar said:
Google is no more using IP address to get the country of user. They stopped it about 3 months back. Since you used to use VPN to connect Google thought your country of origin is US and since now they have stopped checking IP's it doesn't know you are not from US.
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Do you know how they are controlling it now!? I'm able to enter the american play store by using Tor Network, but as soon as I log into my account it drives me back to brazilian play store and I cannot conclude my purchase.
Thank you for any help.

JoeArny said:
Do you know how they are controlling it now!? I'm able to enter the american play store by using Tor Network, but as soon as I log into my account it drives me back to brazilian play store and I cannot conclude my purchase.
Thank you for any help.
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Im from BR too, if we could do this and buy things, would they ship to brazil ?
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lucasleal said:
Im from BR too, if we could do this and buy things, would they ship to brazil ?
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As I know, not a chance! A shipito, or something like that would be necessary. Or, in my case, a fast trip to US...

Google Chrome Cast

Who's getting one?! I think this thing has a lot of potential to make some waves:
http://lifehacker.com/chrome-unveils-the-chromecast-an-hdmi-stick-for-stream-897062318
I was hoping it would let you mirror your device but it basically turns your Tablet/PC/Laptop/Android into a remote. Allowing you to queue up videos and send them to your tv wirelessly. I think it's pretty cool that you can queue up stuff and continue to use your device for other things. Perhaps someone will be able to hack it so it can mirror your android device?
Discuss

Wrong forum but XDA has not created a a sub forum for this yet.
For those who ordered one what is the ship date you received?
I ordered one receipt says will ship by August 7th. I hope it ships sooner. I am guessing it will.

looks like a great solution !! :good::good:

play store sold out currently. amazon search turns up no results. here is the link for chromecast on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DR0PDNE/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?redirect=true&ref_=tv_srch_google

Some Best Buys have them on sale now. I called the one near me they said they would have them tomorrow morning.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communit...89684481707861

I just checked Best Buys website and with my silver premier membership if I used next day shipping for $3 it would arrive between July 26th and 29th. Expedited said arrival would be July 27th to 30th.
EDIT: Just checked again and now it's showing sold out online. Was still in stock 5 to 10 minutes ago.
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One of the people in my Google+ circles saw them at a Best Buy in the Cincinnati area today.
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Ordered mine from Amazon. Will be delivered on Friday.
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I just bought one 20min ago at the local best buy. Its pretty sweet so far, comes with an extender for the hdmi and a power adapter. About to try it out

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I just bought one 20min ago at the local best buy. Its pretty sweet so far, comes with an extender for the hdmi and a power adapter. About to try it out
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You must be on the west coast
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You must be on the west coast
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I am near hollywood. Ill tell you thing, im definitrly glad they included an extender thing... Its definitely not going to easily fit in some tv's without the extender. That said seems google really thought this one through!

.just ordered mine!! :thumbup:
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are you able to stream games on to the screen with the chrome cast? or is it app specific?

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You must be on the west coast
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People have been reporting that they just walked into best buy yesterday evening and asked for them and was able to purchase them. During the announcement yesterday, they said it would be available at Best buy starting on the 28th. Seems like most stores already have them in stock, you just have to ask for it specifically.

I grabbed mine at Best Buy this afternoon on Long Island. It's really awesome, especially with the 3 free months of Netflix. You can stream local media on it as well. I'm using Plex media server for that, and you can also stream Amazon Prime Video too, so it's a really versatile solution for really cheap.

Bought these in Mansfield Tx( DFW metro plex) Got the last 2
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Got mine from best buy this afternoon. Best buy doesn't put it on the floor anywhere. You have to ask the sale.
So far, netflex and youtube are working great. however casting from chrome browser is like a joke. very very choppy. I tried it from my laptop, chromebook, the result is un-useable.
Wish more native apps will be release soon.

bold2 said:
Got mine from best buy this afternoon. Best buy doesn't put it on the floor anywhere. You have to ask the sale.
So far, netflex and youtube are working great. however casting from chrome browser is like a joke. very very choppy. I tried it from my laptop, chromebook, the result is un-useable.
Wish more native apps will be release soon.
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To be fair, I believe that the "cast a tab" functionality is still in beta. Perhaps it will be optimized with time and performance may improve. Also, it uses 2GHz wifi bands, so it could potentially be affected by other 2GHz devices in the area.

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To be fair, I believe that the "cast a tab" functionality is still in beta. Perhaps it will be optimized with time and performance may improve. Also, it uses 2GHz wifi bands, so it could potentially be affected by other 2GHz devices in the area.
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That is true. if chrom url can redir to receiver side, and disconnect from sender, that would a good start.

Best Buy
Best buy is where it is at. shopping cart by customer service. what a great deal. using chrome to stream i am on my desktop over 40 foot from my rougher on my desktop pc pushing video files with no problem. also the tv is 15 ft from the rougher that is 40 ft from my desktop. also i have found when pushing from phone or tablet you can reboot and netflix keeps on playing. i give it 12 stars out of 10 great job google. i hope soon we could do screen share from our devices or pc's {playing games on a device that is charging with moga pro! That would be sick!!}

I just picked one up at Best Buy. They still had a few left in stock.
They also gave me the 3-months of Netflix (it prints out on the receipt). Pretty nice since that promotion was discontinued. I didn't really have a particular need for it, but at $11 (after Netflix discount), it was a no brainer.

ChromeCast in UK Review

Hi all here is a review for ChromeCast in the UK, works perfectly no problems with streaming, no region lock probs.
Anyone else in the UK playing with one yet?

Very professional video! Grats! Who's that holding the phone?
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I been enjoying house of cards via Netflix via a chromecast that arrived the other day, a birthday geek treat.. I like it. Finding stuff that isn't kak on YouTube is the hardest bit. They need to filter the **** out.
Improvements would be ui related when things load etc you Get those slightly outdated graphic, non buttery. Minor point, but one apple heads will point out. Sure it will get improved. Waiting for apps now...
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Waiting on official release here. Ebay prices are quite high for my liking. I think I will probably use this frequently.
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Just taken delivery of my chromecast in the UK, and to say I'm dribbling with excitement is a bit of an understatement!

Ordered one myself to Ireland, due to arrive mid next week, thank you for confirming there's no issues using it outside the US as I was a little bit worried about that.

just got one on ebay for £48, should be here Tuesday! Can't wait!!!!!! :0)
Thanks for the vid

I've got mine arriving this Monday, from the US, courtesy of a travelling Co-worker. Can't wait! Can I asked how you guys loaded the chromecast app onto your UK android devices (sideload apk?) as the app is (region?) blocked from my Google play store (nexus 7, htc one).
Thanks!

I've had my Chromecast now for a week and I have to say it is amazing!
I was lucky enough to get the the months Netflix credit as well.
The link is for the latest Chromecast app which then you just side load.
http://db.tt/950awI3V
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Also found this thread which has version 1 and 1.1.2 of the chromecast apk
http://tinyurl.com/pd454ar

I just got my chromecast in the UK - only had a quick play with it - very impressed so far!!
Trying to figure out how to block updates at the moment - as I want to stay on the rootable firmware just in case I can change the DNS when rooted at a later date!

which vendor did you guys use? and how much did you pay if you don't mind me asking?

Well I did Amazon usa, using borderlinx. As it was a treat I chose express ship, total cost just shy of £50, think 48/46 if wanted regular shipping. I was ok with 50 as I reckon lowest release price here is going to be £35 and it was my birthday gizmo fix.. Just want more apps and tab apps but Netflix is pretty cool, till my 1month trial expires.. At which point my gf will get a trial.. Or else.
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Hulu without Hulu Plus?

Is there any way to properly cast Hulu without a Hulu Plus account?
I'm rather unexperienced when it comes to both Hulu and the Chromecast. I have a free Hulu account without Hulu Plus.
On the Play Store, I could only find a HuluPlus app and a japanese Hulu app, so I'm assuming there is no regular American Hulu app for the free content.
The Hulu Plus app wouldn't let me log in with my free account, so casting from my phone or tablet seems to be a no-go.
Casting from Chrome on PC is a pain, as you can't use your PC while casting in full screen, or it will revert to a regular window again.
Using a trick from Lifehacker to use the Pop out player to cast full screen isn't satisfactory, as it comes with black bars on all four sides of the screen and is terribly slow.
Is there no way to cast regular Hulu to the Chromecast? Another Hulu app I am unaware of or maybe a third party app?

Nope no way to do it without a Hulu Plus account from a phone or tablet.
I personally find Hulu Plus worth it.. Yes you still get ads but they are greatly diminished and the amount of content it opens up is a good value for what I'm interested in.

On the pc, can't you alt+tab out of the stream? It works with other players
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I do regular Hulu through PlayOn and Avia to CC. Looks pretty good and supports subtitles.

So you use Playon as a DLNA server playing Hulu, and then Avia to cast the DLNA stream to the Chromecast?

DJames1 said:
So you use Playon as a DLNA server playing Hulu, and then Avia to cast the DLNA stream to the Chromecast?
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Yes, works pretty well except for the common problem with PlayOn that you can't easily forward/reverse video. Pause works fine though. Another advantage of PlayOn is that it uses VLC player so can play basically any local video format.
All the PlayOn channels give CC the closest thing to a Roku experience to this point.

So if I understand correctly, you can watch all kinds of things through playon, but playon requires a paid subscription, right?
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Yes.. I want you to be very very aware of PlayOn.. They are a incredibly corrupt company.
Absolutely DO NOT PURCHASE the lifetime subscription. You'll never find a EULA or ToS agreement on PlayOn's site. They have changed the lifetime plan more than twice and left users in the dust. I'm one of them.
I paid for a lifetime subscription to Hulu and whatever was in PlayOn at the time and none of that is included any longer.
If you must deal with this company, the yearly sub is the best run for the money. I have a counter-press release ready when this company releases their ChromeCast plugin to warn people of this, but I figure that of you are interested in this option, you should know about this corruption.
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Yes.. I want you to be very very aware of PlayOn.. They are a incredibly corrupt company.
Absolutely DO NOT PURCHASE the lifetime subscription. You'll never find a EULA or ToS agreement on PlayOn's site. They have changed the lifetime plan more than twice and left users in the dust. I'm one of them.
I paid for a lifetime subscription to Hulu and whatever was in PlayOn at the time and none of that is included any longer.
If you must deal with this company, the yearly sub is the best run for the money. I have a counter-press release ready when this company releases their ChromeCast plugin to warn people of this, but I figure that of you are interested in this option, you should know about this corruption.
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I won't even purchase a yearly account if that is the way they do business....not worth it to me

abuttino said:
Yes.. I want you to be very very aware of PlayOn.. They are a incredibly corrupt company.
Absolutely DO NOT PURCHASE the lifetime subscription. You'll never find a EULA or ToS agreement on PlayOn's site. They have changed the lifetime plan more than twice and left users in the dust. I'm one of them.
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I've only tested PlayOn briefly a few years ago, and it didn't work with my Samsung Blu-Ray player at the time, so I didn't pay for it. But I've since mentioned it to a few other people who use it now, and I've never heard about this.
So tell us more. What exactly is the problem with their lifetime subscription? What are the two times they left users behind? Are you referring to when they switched from a one-time purchase to a subscription model in 2010? And when they added the PlayLater PVR feature that wasn't included in the basic subscription?

The lifetime subs were changed when PlayOn went to HD and when they went to the subscription model.
The way they rolled it out to users is by a lifetime sub and you'll be fine, one month later they left all in the dust. I'm not even sure what PlayOn basic does, but it sure doesn't do hulu.
When they left the users behind for HD, I can imagine it went the same way.
Very very corrupt company when you bait and switch your customers in a regular basis
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