Is Hulu Plus available for Wii in Canada? - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums

mrbean5411 · 2012-08-20, 07:15 PM

On the Wii menu page, my "Shop Channel" advertises that Hulu Plus is now available for download. However, when I go to the Shop Channel, Hulu Plus is nowhere to be seen. Does anyone know what's going on?

whitbyterry · 2012-08-20, 11:09 PM

The Hulu service is not available to anyone in Canada.

johnvan · 2012-08-24, 04:23 PM

I use Hulu Plus on my Wii in Canada. You need to do two things. Subscribe to a VPN or use UnblockUS setup in your router. Secondly, change the country location in your Wii system settings to United States, you also must re-accept the terms and conditions. That screen is located somewhere else in the system settings.

dunlop · 2012-08-24, 05:41 PM

You will still require a Hulu plus account, which involves a lot of jumping through hoops as you need to say you are a US resident

johnvan · 2012-08-24, 07:16 PM

Actually, that's pretty easy too. I learned a neat trick on these forums which worked great. You use your Canadian credit card but convert the address into a U.S. one. You simply take the numbers from your postal code ie
H5T 1G7 would be 517, pick two numbers and tack them to the end like this 51701, now find a real address within that zip code using google.
Hulu thinks I live in a diner in North Hollywood

j0dest3r · 2012-08-28, 10:22 PM

I haven't tried with Hulu, but I've always just used 90210 and my real address lol!

2012-08-20, 07:15 PM	#1
mrbean5411 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brampton, Ontario Posts: 129	Is Hulu Plus available for Wii in Canada? On the Wii menu page, my "Shop Channel" advertises that Hulu Plus is now available for download. However, when I go to the Shop Channel, Hulu Plus is nowhere to be seen. Does anyone know what's going on?

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2012-08-20, 11:09 PM	#2
whitbyterry Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Whitby, Ontario (Rogers Cable), LG 42PC3D, 8642HD Posts: 514	The Hulu service is not available to anyone in Canada.

2012-08-24, 04:23 PM	#3
johnvan Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 113	I use Hulu Plus on my Wii in Canada. You need to do two things. Subscribe to a VPN or use UnblockUS setup in your router. Secondly, change the country location in your Wii system settings to United States, you also must re-accept the terms and conditions. That screen is located somewhere else in the system settings.

2012-08-24, 05:41 PM	#4
dunlop Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 286	You will still require a Hulu plus account, which involves a lot of jumping through hoops as you need to say you are a US resident

2012-08-24, 07:16 PM	#5
johnvan Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 113	Actually, that's pretty easy too. I learned a neat trick on these forums which worked great. You use your Canadian credit card but convert the address into a U.S. one. You simply take the numbers from your postal code ie H5T 1G7 would be 517, pick two numbers and tack them to the end like this 51701, now find a real address within that zip code using google. Hulu thinks I live in a diner in North Hollywood

2012-08-28, 10:22 PM	#6
j0dest3r Veteran Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,617	I haven't tried with Hulu, but I've always just used 90210 and my real address lol!