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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 aman2k4 »

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.

yeah when i noticed this, it blew my mind.

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by milanhbs »

Are we going full circle from TV to streaming back to TV? Probably not, but I do really enjoy the discovery aspect as well as reducing the overwhelming options of streaming down to a few channels.

This has a super smooth feel and throws you directly in, really well done.

Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

DougWebb wrote: post #8

I really like how there are only 12 channels, and you don't get to choose what's on. The only way to make it even more like tv from a few decades ago would be if half of the channels were static.

Given how full of crap content and intrusive ads YouTube is these days, I actually kinda miss tv from back then. About the only benefits at this point are time shifting and pause/rewind.

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Post by hadisafa »

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.

channels are synced so everyone is watching the same exact content at the same time, just like TV.

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

I download videos and schedule them as channels with https://ersatztv.org/ to watch through Plex locally to get the same effect. I usually want some noise on the background and in that mode I can't be stopping frequently to choose the next video or mess with playlists.
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