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Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by denysvitali »

dbingham wrote: post #220
hadisafa wrote: post #2

Channel 1: Science and Technology Channel 2: Travel and Events Channel 3: Food Channel 4: Architecture Channel 5: Film and Animation Channel 6: Documentaries Channel 7: Comedy Channel 8: Music Channel 9: Autos and Vehicles Channel 10: News and Politics Channel 11: UFC Channel 12: Podcasts/Interviews/Talk Shows

It'd be really awesome to have a link to the channel and video that is playing in case I want to find it later. This is a wonderful discovery tool, but I'd really love to be able to save the content I discover!

On the bottom right there is an ID that looks like a YouTube video ID

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by slillibri »

tantalor wrote: post #6

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.

> It is always "running" and if you flip away you will miss it.

Throw in some ads and it will be everything I hate about broadcast TV.

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Post by l72 »

ChadNauseam wrote: post #216
l72 wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it was mostly youtube and retrojunk.com Try searching for "$channel bump" Personally, I think Adult Swim had the best bumps, usually just some nice house music with a nice animation and some funny quotes.

I'm really interested in this but I'm having trouble googling. What is a bump? Is it referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_(broadcasting)

Yup. Here's a playlist for adult swim ones. I just used yt-dlp and passed in the playlist URL and it will download all the bumps as separate files:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS8kchdwFPM&list=PL075thqiB6...

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by pcthrowaway »

aroemers wrote: post #27
racefan76 wrote: post #9

This is neat! Feels just like old cable, the static transitions being a good touch.

Perhaps you like this nostalgic TV as well then: https://90s.myretrotvs.com . It also uses Youtube as a source and plays uninterrupted like an old-school channel.

Also discussed on HN:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906022

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25973955

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