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Re: Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

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Post by claudiulodro »

malvosenior wrote: post #64
shantly wrote: post #26

I still just want one simple place to stream all (most, or half, even, would be great, for that matter) of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and pre-Elmoization Sesame Street for my kids. Anything else would be a welcome bonus but I mostly just want those.

I just want the original Reading Rainbow. I can't find it anywhere, if anyone knows how to attain a digital copy, I'd love to hear it.

There are a bunch of seasons available free for Prime members on Amazon Prime Video. I've been watching it with my kids the last few weeks, and it's held up well!

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Post by organsnyder »

taurath wrote: post #99
stallmanite wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to chime in with another recommendation for Pluto. The app is noticeably snappier than anything else on my 3 different models of Roku. (Weird since it’s free and Hulu, HBO, Sling et al should have plenty of money for development.). Sling especially has dark patterns selling DVR space and loses audio sync constantly. Pluto is rock solid by comparison.

Roku tends to have poor quality (outsourced) apps when companies have invested in a multiplatform system - brightscript doesn’t interoperate well with anything else so its usually an outsourced project.

Funny. The Roku MLB.tv app blows every other platform out of the water.

Re: Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

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Post by iamnothere »

heavyset_go wrote: post #25
iamnothere wrote: post #15

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Many Americans don't like the idea of a national state-funded propaganda outlet. Not that a national PBS would necessarily be like that, but it has happened in many other countries, and it's a valid concern. Edit: there are a number of other reasons as well, including the difficulty of coordinating national broadcasts at the time that PBS was founded. Major networks were once also primarily driven by local affiliates…

> Many Americans don't like the idea of a national state-funded propaganda outlet This exists[1], but it isn't PBS. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America

It's not aimed at a domestic audience, and until recently this was enforced by law. VOA is also explicitly propaganda, at least under Bernays's more neutral definition of propaganda: it is intended to influence foreign populations to view the US in a favorable light, using what VOA considers to be the most accurate point of view.

Propaganda isn't just Soviet posters describing the abundant harvest. Any widely broadcast messages with an explicit goal to influence populations, even if the messages are accurate, is propaganda.

The recasting of propaganda as "evil lies" (or "fake news") has poisoned the well when it comes to discussion of accurate propaganda, which still exists and is in use every day.

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Post by judge2020 »

cgy1 wrote: post #77
jdlyga wrote: post #19

YouTube TV is nice, but is missing all the Viacom cable channels that are on the other streaming services (Comedy Central, MTV, etc).

As far as I am aware, having Viacom channels is the exception rather than the rule for streaming cable providers. Along with Youtube TV, Hulu TV, Playstation Vue, and Fubo TV also do not carry Viacom channels.

Yep, the only carrier is AT&T TV which only comes from AT&T's negotiating weight with U-Verse and DirecTV.

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Post by jimktrains2 »

shantly wrote: post #46
kashprime wrote: post #45

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I wish there was a way to get all of the episodes of Mr. Rogers, especially outside of the US. Current offerings really lack the patient approach he exemplified. There's one DVD set with just 30 episodes, no digital downloads anywhere.

Daniel Tiger’s certainly no replacement for it. And heavy auto-tuning in kids’ entertainment really bugs me. Let them hear natural human voices.

Autotune seems to be antithetical to the basic themes (e.g. it's ok to be yourself and mistakes are ok) of Daniel tiger and Mr Rogers. It really, really bothers me when I hear it.

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Post by 40four »

Spellman wrote: post #58
shitloadofbooks wrote: post #29

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What is "pre-elmoization" Sesame Street and why do you think it's better?

For a reference essay on the shift from Big Bird to Elmo: https://kotaku.com/how-elmo-ruined-sesame-street-1746504585 Major thesis: "It started in small ways. A lot of stories used to be based around Big Bird, who was psychologically characterized as a six-year-old. And in a lot of ways, this was ideal—six years old was on the older end of Sesame Street’s age demographic, and Big Bird served as both a role model and…

I grew up watching Big Bird as the lead character, and I think this analysis is spot on.

I don’t have kids of my own yet, so I’m out of touch with how the show is being run these days, but if Elmo is the lead now, this definitely sounds like a step back in quality level.

I guess it makes sense from a business perspective for the creators. I’m sure it helps the bottom line. Kids go nuts for Elmo.

Regardless, it makes me happy to see PBS expand their reach. The quality level across the board is astounding! If it was the only network I had access to I would be happy.

Nova science is unreal! ‘Nature’ episodes are best in the business for nature docs. Many of the Masterpiece series are great... and don’t sleep on all the cooking shows. For a publicly funded organization, it’s absolutely mind blowing the quality of product they put out.

A real treasure.

Re: Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

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Post by jimktrains2 »

duncan-donuts wrote: post #59
shantly wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Daniel Tiger’s certainly no replacement for it. And heavy auto-tuning in kids’ entertainment really bugs me. Let them hear natural human voices.

Still gotta admit PBS’s current kid television is way better than anything on Disney/Nickelodeon. We only have an antenna a we watch a lot of PBS. I really, really dislike the kids shows on Disney/Nickelodeon

Nature cat is decent. I really, really liked the recent Christmas episode and the message it had

Re: Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

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Post by pryelluw »

About two years ago I did some work for PBS that might be related to this. The objective was to turn their catalog into a static feed that could be consumed by table top boxes.

An interesting aspect of the project was that their catalog was fairly well normalized. I was expecting the usual mess of data structures.

It was built with vanilla Django. No rest framework because the feed was rendered to static files served by S3. During our discussions I brought using Go for its performance and resilience. That was (correctly) decided against and we went with Django. Why Django? It's easy to wrap up periodic jobs as commands and runnning them with django celery.

Re: Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

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Post by mc3 »

aidenn0 wrote: post #94
kleer001 wrote: post #73

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you don't vpn ?

FWIW VPN is insufficient for youtube.tv; in addition to geo-ip it requires your browser to report a location. IIRC there's a firefox addon that can report an arbitrary location. IANAL, but it seems to me intentionally instructing your browser to report a false location in order to get access to services you would otherwise be denied would count as wire-fraud.

What about if you RDP into a machine (physical or cloud) located in the US?
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