You mean to tell me people actually clicked that YouTube TV ad?
YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
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#372Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even on SiriusXM, the DJs never seem to shut up. One of my fondest "one of these days" project ideas: duct-tape a correlator to an RF front end, along with enough storage to "Tivoize" the local FM band. Record everything, recognize and redact any content that reoccurs within 30-second windows, and rebroadcast it for household/car consumption.
Long before home computers were affordable, in a magazine for electronics hobbyists, I saw a design for an analogue circuit that could, it was claimed, remove advertising and DJ waffling from radio broadcasts. I think it just looked for the frequent short periods of silence that occur in speech so it can't have been very reliable. But it had a certain low-tech beauty.
I once had an ‘Intempo Rebel’ radio[1], about a decade ago, which had the selling point that it would record songs, from radio, as MP3, without any ads or DJs. It actually worked, from what I remember. It was magic to me at the time, and …still is.
Edit: it appears that its original name was PopCatcher [2], by a company with the same name
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#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
They went about it differently but already made it, it's called Spotify.
An even better idea, if you're preferential to radio DJs: have a recording setup and Shazam-like recognition system where a Spotify playlist or queue is made from what's being played. I was considering doing that as a project. The song choice by the radio DJs is the real value, and I sometimes prefer their playlists over my recommended daily mix playlists or whatever Spotify selects on the generated radio stations. T…
Aren't the song titles usually broadcast along as metadata, and broadcast on web players?
Re: YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
#374https://pluto.tv/welcome Pluto.TV is free because of commercials, and it has 250+ channels. It has a TV guide for what is playing and while it has no DVR it has the ability to start a movie from the beginning so you don't miss it.
I've never heard of this before now. It looks legit. How are they able to remain free? Do they inject more ads than the already existing ones? It's not like TV doesn't already have ads.
EDIT: Okay, looked at the channels. Looks like they just don't have the expensive ones (ESPN, etc). So it doesn't have the sports people want.
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#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
A road warrior VPN setup running on a Raspberry Pi 4 and placed in your home costs less than $50. There are 1000 reasons to have one anyway, and watching TV while traveling is also one of them. I know for a fact the Spectrum TV app works quite well under this setup.
You'd expect the average Joe to do all of this ?
Btw, some routers have built-in VPN—I think ASUS has it, for no particular discernible reason. For dynamic IPs, it also can ping a couple DynDNS providers.
Can't speak as to whether the performance of a router's hardware is enough for VPN together with two streams of video.
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#376I gave up MythTV for this crap
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#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every cablebox I've ever dealt with is a pile of shit than struggles to display simple text-based menus.
Comcast's newer IPTV/X1 boxes are somehow worse, as they have 100x the processing capacity of the old Motorola/Cisco boxes, but use it to run a slow as molasses JS SPA. The Netflix app runs at probably half the speed of the Apple TV (or the Fire TV Stick) and even Comcast's UI can sometimes take upwards of 1-2 seconds to respond to a button press.
X1 uses a cloud-based UI, kind of like X-Windows client and server.
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#378https://pluto.tv/welcome Pluto.TV is free because of commercials, and it has 250+ channels. It has a TV guide for what is playing and while it has no DVR it has the ability to start a movie from the beginning so you don't miss it.
I've never heard of this before now. It looks legit. How are they able to remain free? Do they inject more ads than the already existing ones? It's not like TV doesn't already have ads. EDIT: Okay, looked at the channels. Looks like they just don't have the expensive ones (ESPN, etc). So it doesn't have the sports people want.
I am one of the people that only has YouTube TV for sports. However, they cancelled Fox Sports and added a bunch of other stuff that is not sports.
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I pay ~$5/mo for satellite radio. I don't even drive that much but it's worth it to not listen to ads the whole time.
$5/month is just an introductory price, after the first year it goes way up, to $16.99/month. A cheaper "Mostly Music" is $10.99/month with a reduced 80 channels (looks like nothing I'd miss) that is satellite only, no streaming over the Internet. I've liked listening to a handful of channels on Sirius XM when it's already been enabled in rental cars but it's not worth the price.
When you call to cancel they'll give you 6 months for $5 a month. I've been going through this for a few years now.
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#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
The non-commercial band in the United States is 88-92FM. All the best (many college) stations will be in this band: KFJC, WFMU, KEXP... Radio is alive and well in the U.S., its just not commercial radio.
KEXP is amazing. Highly recommend people check them out (online at kexp.org if you're not in seattle).
Agreed and thanks for the reminder. I used to listen to KEXP online even when I lived in Seattle. Phones are more common than radios these days.