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Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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In Brave, even disabling ad blocker, all I get is static on all 12. Did we kill it? *edit - oops, I have an extension to stop autoplaying html5 videos. Disabling that did the trick.

Similar experience using Firefox. I don't have extensions or userscripts specifically blocking html5, but I'll check my user.js settings.

Til then, still getting the static.

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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The best part of this is the channel doesn't pause when you flip away from it. It is always "running" and if you flip away you will miss it. That builds in a FOMO trade-off which causes user to automatically/subconciously decide on channel they most want to watch, because they can't watch everything.

Yep this works really nicely, and psychologically it's somehow way more relaxing than having to curate what you watch I predict this appears as real youtube feature soon. Since it will also allow them to do a Spotify-style payola approach to scheduling.

>I predict this appears as real youtube feature soon

I highly doubt it. They're going to wait for competitors to implement it and have it for several years before they bother to poorly copy the idea.

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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I added ErsatzTV to my Plex setup about a month ago and we honestly love it so much. I've got 2 sitcom channels, British panel shows, Taskmaster, all Star Trek all the time, British sitcoms, cartoons, and a few others. Its really nice to just sit down and watch "whatever is on" (even though I could switch over to the main library and watch any episode I want). Sometimes I just want a 0-effort/0-decision background no…

I've done the same thing with dizqueTv for my grandmother. On her Android TV, I was able to integrate the IPTV channels on the same channels list, so she can simply use the remote to navigate between the digital channels and the IPTV channels (30 for Hercule Poirot, 31 for classic B&W movies, etc.)

dizqueTv, ErsatzTV... these are the "Chinese company names on Amazon" of TV app names.

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This blew my mind, it's such a different experience. Currently watching the music channel (8, The Lumineers - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) ). Since the author is reading here, one feature request: Please put a volume slider on it and also make a mouse wheel scroll on any part of the page change the volume. I think it's the lack of timeshift which triggers me so much, since it's a somewhat standard feature on TVs.…

If you really like a video and want to watch it later, it displayed the video ID.

I really like the no pausing / everyone being in sync aspect, it's maybe the best feature

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Why can't you pick randomly from your home page and let auto play do its thing?

I wish my YouTube recommendations were anywhere good enough to do this.

Agreed, my recommendations are extremely narrow. Usually videos from the same three content creators, and ones that I've already seen or in there chronological queue that I already plan to watch.

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This is something I always wonder... Something that I really miss from TV on internet content (YouTube, movie streamings and so on) is turn it on and watching what's being transmitted without thinking about what I wanna see. Three reasons: 1. Picking something to watch takes time. Sometimes I only want to see something in the 15 minutes that I'm dining alone. My meal gets cold before I start the video 2. Choosing som…

What I am really missing is a "Play random episode" or "Randomize episodes" button on TV shows. I want to just flip on Seinfeld or Family Guy and watch random episodes, not in order. Such a missed opportunity for Netflix, etc.

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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This blew my mind, it's such a different experience. Currently watching the music channel (8, The Lumineers - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) ). Since the author is reading here, one feature request: Please put a volume slider on it and also make a mouse wheel scroll on any part of the page change the volume. I think it's the lack of timeshift which triggers me so much, since it's a somewhat standard feature on TVs.…

If you really like a video and want to watch it later, it displayed the video ID. I really like the no pausing / everyone being in sync aspect, it's maybe the best feature

Why not add a link to the video instead of just the id?
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