{"id":42495,"date":"2025-10-15T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42495"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:08:09","slug":"end-of-a-tv-era-bell-to-scrap-your-set-top-box-in-favour-of-streaming-launches-unbreakable-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42495","title":{"rendered":"End of a TV era: Bell to scrap your set-top box in favour of streaming, launches \u2018unbreakable\u2019 internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68eeaac0cec7f.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"175\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Company to phase out set-top boxes in January. Bell also announces its &#8216;unbreakable internet&#8217; which will continue to connect you to the web during power outages using wireless backups and<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/end-of-a-tv-era-bell-to-scrap-your-set-top-box-in-favour-of\/article_d47b3b0f-7c6c-49fa-8b2d-54419189a52e.html\">End of a TV era: Bell to scrap your set-top box in favour of streaming, launches \u2018unbreakable\u2019 internet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The set-top boxes will be phased out starting in January for new customers. People renting boxes from Bell can return them if they have a <em><strong>smart TV that can download and stream Bell\u2019s Fibe TV app<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>near as I can tell, can&#8217;t download the Bell TV app on my Roku TV or my Roku boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and hopefully they&#8217;ll fix their shitty app, and make it work the same across devices.  and maybe add at least 2 channels split screen (or even 4?).  as I&#8217;m typing this i note the Bell TV app on my tablet has crashed, again for the 4the time this morning of 3 hours watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company to phase out set-top boxes in January. Bell also announces its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1894,297,360],"class_list":["post-42495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bell","tag-internet","tag-tv","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42499,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495\/revisions\/42499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}