{"id":3996,"date":"2017-02-26T18:39:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T01:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2017-02-26T23:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:03:42","slug":"oscars-online-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/it\/oscars-online-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars Online in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how we watched the Oscar&#8217;s online in Canada without television. &nbsp;We have an NVidia Shield TV streaming media player on which we installed Kodi. &nbsp;The USTVNow Plus was &#8220;added on&#8221; whereby we could stream or record ABC&#8217;s 2017 Oscars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The stream was not continuous at first, with fits of bufferings, so it was not the same as watching it through cable. Almost an hour in, the stream became unavailable. &nbsp;About ten minutes later, we were able to access it once more.<\/p>\n<p>We managed to hear speech read as absentee Asghar Farhd won for&nbsp;<em>The Salesman<\/em>. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/news\/best-foreign-film-directors-pen-letter-against-fanaticism-w468887\" target=\"_blank\">Letter posted in article on Rolling Stone website&nbsp;<\/a>was penned by all nominees. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mid-show, a Hollywood tourist group, not limited to&nbsp;a newly-wed and a soon-to-be-wed couple, on a bus tour were brought through the front of the theatre, introduced to and interacted with many of the Oscar stars. &nbsp;Prompted by Kimmel to give up her sun glasses, Jennifer Aniston hands them over. &nbsp;All were encouraged to touch Mahershala Ali&#8217;s Oscar that he won earlier for best supporting actor for his role in <em>Moonlight. &nbsp;<\/em>Kimmel&#8217;s sidekick, Guillermo<b>, <\/b>helped usher them out.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of Katherine Johnson on stage was charming and moving. &nbsp;The NASA research mathematician behind the story in the&nbsp;<em>Hidden Figures<\/em> movie was wheeled on stage. &nbsp;Many of the audience visibly moved; we were honoured by her presence; it was just like watching royalty as the cameras caught her enjoyably survey the vast audience. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the single ten-minute disconnection, streaming was smooth to the end. &nbsp;If only that was the time USTV Now would be unavailable!&nbsp;&nbsp;It was not too smooth an ending for the award show. &nbsp;Moonlight won best picture after a misread of La La Land as a winner, absolutely stunning those on stage, in the audience, and those watching. &nbsp;There will be one person in America finding that blunder&nbsp;tweet worthy. &nbsp;No joke about Steve Harvey can solve that, Kimmel. &nbsp;You should have gone with a line explaining a real example of fake news. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how we watched the Oscar&#8217;s online in Canada without television. &nbsp;We have an NVidia Shield TV streaming media player on which we installed Kodi. &nbsp;The USTVNow Plus was &#8220;added on&#8221; whereby we could stream<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/it\/oscars-online-in-canada\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[720],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","tag-oscars-2017"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oscars Online in Canada - M. 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