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Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
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I had youtube TV for a while and the most annoying thing is that there were no channel numbers.
Interesting, This is apparently a TikTok-like scroller for youtube channel content, which they should have done natively many years ago... I suspect they never did this because they never wanted to make YouTube compete directly with cable TV. YouTube content is displayed in a drab click-click UI because they want users to not scroll deeper for the content that isn't sponsored (paid) all the way to the front pages. Th…
I specifically was talking about the Youtube TV content that is cable over ip.
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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.
It worked great on an ipad but on a TV app I had to go click, click, click, click 40 times to get to the channel I wanted.
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#534I'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…
Before Netflix, there was Blockbuster. If we’re old enough, we remember going there and wandering through the aisles, trying to find something we would commit to. It was just as hard as picking something to watch today. There’s something incredibly important about not having the option and just going with the flow, which I think a lot of people won’t admit they like but actually do. It’s something truly missing from…
> There’s something incredibly important about not having the option and just going with the flow, which I think a lot of people won’t admit they like but actually do.
Personally, I hate it. I can easily get glued to it and watch any random junk. And because it keeps going ad infinitum, I lost track of time and kept wasting my time, even if I was angry at how bad the program was.
With the internet, I always have to make a choice regarding what to watch next, and for every thing I pick the runtime is clearly visible. It helps me make conscious choices and figure out when to stop.
> It’s something truly missing from today’s society.
That feels like a stretch. TV still exists. And it’s mostly garbage.
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I've also been using ErsatzTV with my jellyfin setup. It can take a while to setup channels how you want them, but I love my sci-fi channel which is going through all the Star Treks, Stargates, and Twilight Zones. It is so much easier to flip it on to my Sci-fi Channel, animation channel, movie channel, or James Bond marathon channel then to decide what to watch. And since I've seen all this content, it is often kind…
Do you know if that can operate with no transcoding? I’ve designed my media set-up around Jellyfin on a weak server that can’t handle transcoding, and very-capable clients that don’t need it. This lets me avoid like half the bugs on the Jellyfin bug tracker and all the instability an Nvidia or AMD video card would introduce to the server itself. I’m very interested in this, but can’t use it if it must transcode.
I was checking out their docs and ran across this option for channels:
> HLS Direct does not transcode content and can perform better on low power systems, but does not support watermarks and some clients will have issues at program boundaries
Sounds like that might be what you’re looking for?
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#538Well done. My team built this at Disney six years ago when we were trying to solve content discovery problems. The problem with endless carousels of thumbnails is that it really doesn't draw you in. Sometimes you just need to drop people into content like it's channel surfing. Netflix tried something similar a few years ago, but in my opinion it missed a critical ingredient, which was dropping people into the middle…
TikToks has a bunch of channels playing juicy clips from random movies and shows. always have to pop into hashtag or comments to find out what. Maybe they got axe, I don't see them in my feed anymore, but more than a few times I wished there was one click to keep watching optinos. There's always short form video that gets people side tracked, why not side track into an episode of a show.
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#539I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of super-charged tag-based browsing of various existing sites that are annoying to browse. YouTube is one of them.
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By what I understood there's only front-end code. Ignoring the file server, of course.
Can't you just embed the youtube videos?
Yeah, the site uses an iframe to youtube
Perhaps the ideia of a back-end was the video selection, so everyone watches the same videos. But there could also be a video list in the source code, or maybe, but less likely, a deterministic usage of yt's algorithm