Allow me to draw you a picture of time.

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Wow, there are some real geniuses there, or did they possibly pay one of those consulting companies?

Riding the same wave the best phone companies will propose a revolutionary new smartphone with the handset and the dial

This has a funny secondary effect in that in some countries they would definitely need to get a broadcasting license then, when so far they got around it, being a video-on-demand service falling under the same laws as rental places for VHS tapes and such.

how about solve your revolutionary problem that is causing your decline, stop cancelling shows after 1-2 seasons/. besides that the extreme hiatus between seasons of shows, which also plagues other streaming.

Astonishing. Absolutely fascinating.

flagging engagement numbers

Have they considered putting literally any description about shows up? I don't want to have to scroll through a list looking for something interesting and go to a second website to actually see what it is, and nor do I just want to watch ten minutes of stuff different shows too decide because then I've already wasted an hour.

That was a major reason we cancelled. Now we have Disney plus (I think someone else pays for that and shares with us - I don't watch anything on it on my own initiative so it's not my realm) and BBC, and the seven seas. Two legal services seems like a sensible amount.

Ok but I've wanted this forever

Everyone knows the joke about spending an hour looking for something to watch, this could be great for discovery

Now if these services would just let us shuffle episodes...

(I know I know jellyfin/ whatever would be better but I'm broke and $10 a month for a shared account is easier than buying the server equipment right now)

From Netflix to Nutflicks.

Hello Jellyfin!

You can do that? Live? Like it's happening RIGHT NOW?

It's like we're living in the future.

Can I use plastic bags again yet?

Yesterday I watched Spain - Belgium on a live stream on Prime Video. The same stream was available on Netflix and YouTube.

It was like live TV, but properly enshitified. Instead of professional journalists and commenters, you get streamers reacting to the game, improper comments, like and subscribe notices, publicity every time the ball stops, paid viewer comments overlayed on the broadcast. A complete shitstorm.

I realized that this is what the future of live TV looks like. So I think I'm done with it.

next thing they'll think up is a free tier supported by just ads

All we need now is to bring the feeds into our home for free. Maybe an antennae device of some sort?

I've recently been getting into free IPTV streams. There are 1000s and 1000s and free streams from all over the world in pretty much every language with over 2000 in English alone. Most are not geo blocked. You can find a list here: https://iptv-org.github.io/

Tell me you want to be a cable service without telling me.

Next week - Live talk shows without video! You can order a special subscription package to your car. Now only currency 9.99

Full circle, except gated off now. I'll count that as a win for the company.

Y'all, the greatest joy in my media universe is the 24/7 MST3K channel that's on one of these things. Guaranteed laugh within 2 minutes. I don't need to select the episode. I don't want each episode in a row. I want random.

they've already had this for a bit with WWE on netflix.

It's just cable with Tivo. you can pause, rewind, all crap. WWE was the test case (it's like the TV version of the porn industry) so now they'll woo over other cable networks and sporting events. And then...oh you got cable without having to buy a tivo box. on the bright side, it'll make pirating and restreaming live sports a heck of alot easier.

I haven't seen any live-tv for 30yrs now, I'm baffled they still exist somehow?