I thought this was stupid.
Then I tried it. It's awesome. I can't tell you why, but there's something about it that, I guess, has been programmed into my brain over decades.
Great work.
Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
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#212Must be my crappy internet connection that lets me watch the white noise for an unbearable amount of time. It's a very annoying white noise. Also, I wonder if some channels send a sign-off sequence once they run out of content.
Oh I love that idea, a signoff message followed by an image of a test pattern for several hours, until they sign back on the next morning.
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#213Very cool concept, congratulations!
I do have two bugs to report.
1) I only see static until I fiddle with the mute button, which makes the image work besides working as expected. As soon as I change channel, all static again until I hit mute. I'm on Chrome over Windows using a corporate network.
2) The info button shows a reasonable email address, and, under "Support", the string "bc1q4s2f6df2cqa8stenwp8y5tlmd5pywy8dwqqxvh". I have no idea what to do with that string.
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#214The 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.
If only we had a TiVo...
Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
#215Add an “upload video” link and YouTube suddenly has competition.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I also found a ton of old Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Adult Swim bumps Where were you able to find these? Recreating one of these channels has been a side project I’ve wanted to do for ages.
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)
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#217This scratched the right itch for me. Deciding what to watch is so difficult and this limits options in just the right way. It really does feel like TV. Good job!
Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
#218This is such a fun idea, great execution too.
In a way I feel TikTok taps into this type of TV-like discovery, where you are not overloaded with options but instead just swipe through channels until you find something you want to stop and watch.
Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
#219Why I f*cking love this? Congrats.
Re: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
#220Channel 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!