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I had youtube TV for a while and the most annoying thing is that there were no channel numbers.
That and the 50 other terrible design choices they made. What a hot mess youtube tv is.
The bar is incredibly low.
Funny, how we are slowly attracted towards the thing that we were planning to revolutionize away from. 1. Cable is expensive, pretty much majority of streamming services bumped up their $$$, if you add 3-4 of them, the cost will be the same as cable. 2. When i used this, cant lie. I missed the nostalgia.
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That and the 50 other terrible design choices they made. What a hot mess youtube tv is.
Compared to what? It's easily the best Internet cable TV product on the market IMHO.
If you want to watch “the most likely thing you would want to watch” (NFL, Olympics main feed), YouTubeTV is great.
But as soon as you want to find something off the top few recommendations, it gets much harder. Compare that to regular TV, when I could just remember 27 is Discovery Channel and get there instantly.
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Can you give any insight into why these projects were canceled at Disney or Netflix?
I can't speak to Netflix. At Disney the willingness to experiment with streaming UX was thin on the ground six years ago. It was about making something that felt like a direct Netflix competitor. Other experiments have shipped since then, like co-viewing. I actually believe TikTok is more of the spiritual inheritor of this kind of project more than any other platform.
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> since a lot of channels are annoying to me using headphones, they pan the audio sources too hard left/right and it's super distracting I find this interesting. Are you oversensitive? I've never even considered that this could be an issue. Do you experience the same problem with other things like music and games?
Not the parent, but with similar view on panned audio. If it's music where it's done on purpose, no problem. But talking with audio in one ear? I'm out. Not sure why exactly, but it's very jarring. For me, it's one of the worst audio quality issues a video can have.
I don't watch that channel any more.
I'd echo the sentiment that this is amazing, and that a TV guide would be awesome. I'd also suggest maybe adding the channel names (like the comment you posted here) to the app itself (although i think it's cool when it's unnamed and you get the old-school feeling of channels just being numbers). Also, I'd love to have permalinks for the channels. Not for the individual videos themselves, but just a link that when sh…
I had youtube TV for a while and the most annoying thing is that there were no channel numbers.
It also had the worst search UX I have ever experienced.
Most importantly, recording an event did not guarantee you got the whole thing! There were numerous events I was watching from my ‘library’ that did not include the final 10-30 min of action. WTH? Did you really record based on time stamps alone? What year is this?!
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The author was replying to everyone, even me, but didn’t respond to my question about how the list is made. This makes me assume that it’s hand-made. If so, it’ll probably get 1 or 2 updates (if even that many) and then remain static as the creator loses interest. Wouldn’t be the first time. EDIT: list has changed. Trying to track it, we'll see what happens. I really hope the author has some way to search Youtube for…
Again, if I am allowed to dream, we can have a community around the exchange of these list files.
Well, this website is completely cloneable, the JS is non-minified, so adding in community lists is certainly possible. Maybe just a tool to create those lists collaboratively. Good idea!
Also works on localhost, run these commands: `wget -r -np -k https://ytch.xyz ` - downloads the website recursively `wget https://ytch.xyz/list.json ` - download the list of what every channel plays and will play (I'm not sure if this ever really changes. The real website adds ?t= ) Then for instance run `python3 -m http.server` and visit localhost:8000 :)
JSON looks like tinydb