This hack is so cool I lost sleep because of it. Warning, do not do this hack late in the evening.
Basically I wanted to be able to watch Korean tv on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 yet for some reason the app I needed to watch this one channel is not available in the USA and Japan.
But then I found this app called Market Unlocker which makes Android Market (now actually called Google Play) think that you are in a different country. You can select which country from a list. The “pro” version of the app is only $2.07 and well worth it. It does require that your device is rooted. I posted on here a while ago about how to do this on a Verizon Galaxy Tab and its in fact really easy.
After changing to another country I was able to install the app for Korean tv. Yaay. There’s actually a PC app for the Korean tv as well and I don’t mind the $6 monthly fee to pay the actors and staff of these dramas and other shows.
With Market Unlocker it was cool to see what different apps are available for example in Switzerland, Britain, France, Korea, etc. Really cool.
I actually found another app in the Swiss market called “TV air“. Its basically a whole bunch of air broadcast tv stations that would be available if you lived in Switzerland. Since I speak German this would be really cool.
But unfortunately the app is able to tell if you are not in Switzerland based on your IP address and will not let you see the channels “aus rechtlichen Grunden” (for legal reasons). Mist (crap)!
In fact if one were really determined one could hack around it by using what is called a proxy. But to have a decent working proxy that could mask your IP so it looked like you were in Switzerland you would have to pay for the service. Worse than that, because usually the only people who do things like that are those trying to hide from authorities for doing something weird, it made me feel uncomfortable.
Perhaps there is some more up-front way to do it that I will discover down the road. It would be really cool to watch Swiss tv on my Galaxy Tab.
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