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Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs
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This is no joke. I tried watching the latest episode of Plur1bus on Apple TV+ on my laptop and here's the steps I went through: 1. Start chrome, navigate to tv.apple.com, click on the #1 show of the day (no problem) 2. The site tells me I can sign up for the TV service that I already have instead of offering a play button. 3. I click on the "sign up" which pauses for 10 seconds then tells me I'm already subscribed wh…
Did you know that if you have any Apple hardware, like anything at all with a screen, this is a 0-step process? You’re already signed into the device, and the AppleTV.app is pre-installed. It’s one tap. I have sympathy for you, that sounds hellish. But. You are aware that Apple has never been in the web content business, right? And I’ve never heard of anyone watching Apple TV from a browser. I didn’t even know that w…
I have an iPhone, but I don't want to watch a TV show on a phone screen. AppleTV content usually doesn't work over AirPlay. You just get a black screen.
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Only Windows app and Mac give more than 720-1080p on Netflix
This is my sole reason for sticking with smart TVs or a streaming device. How is anyone getting proper 1080p+ streams from Netflix using a Linux device? 4K is not necessary, but 1080p at least it's what I need. Not even considering proper HDR support
> How is anyone getting proper 1080p+ streams from Netflix using a Linux device?
Piracy
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It's interesting to hear your perspective, but I totally disagree about Cable TV. It's the worst paid service I've ever seen. 100+ channels of almost pure garbage that insults my intelligence at every turn. 1/3 of the time was ads, and of the remaining 2/3, much was taken up by "when we return..." and "before the break...". Plus most of the content was targeted towards morons. These days, you'd have to pay me $20+ pe…
Many of the most popular streaming shows were originally aired on broadcast TV (which most people watched via cable) - The Office, Friends, West Wing, Big Bang Theory, etc. Or originally for cable channels - Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Suits, etc. Netflix has produced a few decent shows but most of its stuff is "targeted towards morons" or "pure garbage that insults my intelligence" - Love is Blind, Is it Cake. Comme…
That doesn't seem like an apples-to-apples comparison. There is a lot of junk on the broadcast and cable channels as well.
I expect there to be more aggregate junk on Netflix just because there is no floor: networks have only 168 hours a week to fill, while Netflix can throw anything at all on the pile.
But it doesn't matter, since unlike the networks, they're all available at once. If something insults your intelligence, you don't watch it.
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Did you know that if you have any Apple hardware, like anything at all with a screen, this is a 0-step process? You’re already signed into the device, and the AppleTV.app is pre-installed. It’s one tap. I have sympathy for you, that sounds hellish. But. You are aware that Apple has never been in the web content business, right? And I’ve never heard of anyone watching Apple TV from a browser. I didn’t even know that w…
I have an iPhone, but I don't want to watch a TV show on a phone screen. AppleTV content usually doesn't work over AirPlay. You just get a black screen.
There’s something wrong with your TV. You must have some kind of third party air play video device? AirPlay from the TV.app works fine. Just tried it, phone to TV and phone to laptop. You can either stream directly from the app or use screen mirroring. Both work.
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Steam Big Picture is very couch friendly, if you're using a game pad and what you're launching supports a game pad. That's why it works for a couch gaming PC. Firefox has pretty bad gamepad support last I checked.
It's been a while since I've had to customize it much but I believe the Steam overlay allows you to map controller inputs to anything, uniquely for every given app you run through it. That said, at some point I think yes, you just get a bluetooth mouse/keyboard to go with it.
And how well have you been able to get this to work with Firefox?
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Many of the most popular streaming shows were originally aired on broadcast TV (which most people watched via cable) - The Office, Friends, West Wing, Big Bang Theory, etc. Or originally for cable channels - Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Suits, etc. Netflix has produced a few decent shows but most of its stuff is "targeted towards morons" or "pure garbage that insults my intelligence" - Love is Blind, Is it Cake. Comme…
That doesn't seem like an apples-to-apples comparison. There is a lot of junk on the broadcast and cable channels as well. I expect there to be more aggregate junk on Netflix just because there is no floor: networks have only 168 hours a week to fill, while Netflix can throw anything at all on the pile. But it doesn't matter, since unlike the networks, they're all available at once. If something insults your intellig…
His primary dislike for cable television was the amount of "garbage" it offered, while seemingly ignoring that Netflix also has plenty, if not more.
> But it doesn't matter... they're all available at once
I'm sorry but streaming everything is not a panacea. The spigot of worthwhile content is not endless. Ok great you binge-watched the entire season of Stranger Things over two nights. What will you watch tomorrow? And the day after? How much of the show do you actually remember? You lose out on the fun of discussing each individual episode with like-minded people, the wondering about how the next episode will resolve the last episodes drama, maybe watching an episode a second time and catching some additional detail.
I can assure you that watching great television - Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Larry Sanders Show, Homicide: Life on the Street - one episode per week is vastly superior to binge-watching it, even if it feels inconvenient in the moment. (Of course this is with the convenience of DVR so you can time-shift occasionally)
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#218A big part of why marketplaces like Netflix and Steam got so popular is because they provided a low-friction way to consume that was even easier than piracy. It seems like the pendulum is starting to swing in the other direction now- it's often easier to copyright infringe than to watch something the legit way, even if you pay for a subscription that grants you access. Great example of something that's illegal but no…
This is no joke. I tried watching the latest episode of Plur1bus on Apple TV+ on my laptop and here's the steps I went through: 1. Start chrome, navigate to tv.apple.com, click on the #1 show of the day (no problem) 2. The site tells me I can sign up for the TV service that I already have instead of offering a play button. 3. I click on the "sign up" which pauses for 10 seconds then tells me I'm already subscribed wh…
I value my time, learned the lesson some time ago. When I was younger I tinkered for just the fun of doing it. Young me would've gone your route too, just for the challenge of it.
Now I do the math in my head, is it easier to just pay for the optimal way to do things instead of faffing about with all kinds of extra tools.
For this case I still have my 7-8 year old AppleTV 4k (1st gen). Haven't touched my "smart" TVs "smart" features. It threatened to install an AI update a while ago so took it offline.
ATV just keeps chugging away, our family uses it at least an hour a day, sometimes more - especially on the weekends. No lag, no slowness, every major streaming provider has an app for it - no-one wants to ignore one of the largest set-top box markets.
I did the same thing with Youtube, I pay them every month for Family Premium rather than figure out adblocking on about a dozen devices around the house - I do NOT want my kids being exposed to the kind of ads YT runs.
(Which was fun, you _cannot_ add children under 13 to a family account on Youtube, they MUST watch the ads, no way to pay for them to not see them...)
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> Because if you try anything different, you are simply doomed to fail. Just ask total losers like Jeff Bezos or Jensen Huang about that. I'll give you one guess on how Amazon Prime operates, and whether or not it applies the same rules license/rights holders impose. > Netflix disrupted Blockbuster, now we need to disrupt Netflix. So it started with bold claims about "all we need is an official API for streaming to l…
I dealt with people like you my entire career. You were never right in the long run, but your sorts were the masters of kiss up and kick down so somehow despite never seeing the locomotives coming down the tunnels, you survived. But I got rich (oh who am I kidding? Really rich) investing against your viewpoints the whole way. And for that I say thank you for being the way you are. May you enable a whole new generatio…
oh, I cannot resist responding one more time. now that Netflix has bought Warner, Once the dust has cleared, clearly they will re-enable casting content that is from that studio now that there are no more licensing issues! Right?