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TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV

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Re: TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV

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Post by dingaling »

5555624 wrote: post #8

>Growing up in the 90s, television was a different experience. > >You turned on the TV, and whatever was playing at that moment would become your entertainment. > >Nowadays you yourself are in control, you choose what you want to see, whenever you want. You had some control back then, too -- you could change the channel. I don't know anywhere that had a single OTA channel in the 1990s. (And "Stargate SG-1" was on cab…

> And "Stargate SG-1" was on cable.

Not in 'Rest of World'. It was on Channel 4 in the UK, over-the-air.

Re: TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV

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Post by jazzyjackson »

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #6

I have long thought Netflix should offer such a service. Have a sitcom channel that plays constantly from a slowly evolving list. Even better if I could just pick say Seinfeld and get random episodes from an episodic show. I do not want to have to expend energy picking a season+episode, just trying to decompress.

youtubeTV in my area has a Portlandia channel, non-stop on a loop. Always thought it was strange that was the only marathon channel.

It is nice not to have to pick an episode.

Re: TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV

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Post by Podrod »

Spastche wrote: post #37

I've setup something like this recently and I think it's great - I really like the idea of just dropping into the middle of a movie because honestly who has the time to watch a 3 hour movie? that's one thing I really miss about TV kinda tempted to get a CRT just for it to make it even better

I find it quite baffling you'd want to drop In halfway through a 3 hour movie, you'd miss out on so much!

And plenty of people have time to relax and watch a 3 hour movie. They wouldn't make them otherwise.

The again I also find the idea of turning on a show or film just as background filler/noise to be quite weird as well but many people seem to do it so I guess I'm the weird one for either paying complete attention to a film otherwise I find it distracting

shrug

Re: TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV

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Post by Spastche »

Podrod wrote: post #44
Spastche wrote: post #37

I've setup something like this recently and I think it's great - I really like the idea of just dropping into the middle of a movie because honestly who has the time to watch a 3 hour movie? that's one thing I really miss about TV kinda tempted to get a CRT just for it to make it even better

I find it quite baffling you'd want to drop In halfway through a 3 hour movie, you'd miss out on so much! And plenty of people have time to relax and watch a 3 hour movie. They wouldn't make them otherwise. The again I also find the idea of turning on a show or film just as background filler/noise to be quite weird as well but many people seem to do it so I guess I'm the weird one for either paying complete attention…

>I find it quite baffling you'd want to drop In halfway through a 3 hour movie, you'd miss out on so much!

if it's good I'll rewatch it, if it's something I've already seen then I'm not missing anything at all. There's so many movies I've turned off when the beginning is boring, it's a decent way to watch new movies and it's how movies on TV used to work.

I'm trying to watch Robert Altman's filmography slowly, and there's so many slow 3 hour movies that watching them in small pieces until they click and actually make me interested in the entire thing helps. if it's all action or something maybe it seems pointless, but some films are a very slow burn, and this helps.

also it's not just movies, but TV too. I would use the shuffle button on comedy shows I've seen a million times before, now tv style drop in works just as well as that when I just want a laugh but don't really care what episode of something I'm watching. now I don't even have to pick a series, I can just pick a channel labelled comedy.

did you grow up with cable tv? maybe it's generational or regional thing

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

ranger_danger wrote: post #39
cluckindan wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take a look at archive.org’s video section.

It's unbelievable to me how they get away with being the largest central host of pirated content on the planet.

Personally, I hope IA's projects help plant a vital but poorly distributed notion - that laws aren't ethics.

Sometimes laws aren't even laws but thru bad judgment and manipulation, they can be enforced as if they were. Copyright's endless complexities land it here a lot. Perhaps we should expect that when we let an industry buy it's way into - tinking with and creating law.

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