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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by pkamb on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:28PM (#21820626)
Two Apple TV apps I have recently discovered and love using:

Pluto.tv: replicate the cable guide experience. Endless episodes of things like This Old House, MST3k, and vintage game shows. I much prefer Pluto content to modern HGTV-type cable shows, and it scratches the same itch of "just watch whatever's on".

- https://pluto.tv/

Kanopy: use your library card or university ID to stream indie movies and documentaries. Free kids programming. Lots of PBS.

- https://www.kanopy.com/ - https://www.kanopy.com/kids

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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by stallmanite on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:42PM (#21820987)
I have to chime in with another recommendation for Pluto. The app is noticeably snappier than anything else on my 3 different models of Roku. (Weird since it’s free and Hulu, HBO, Sling et al should have plenty of money for development.). Sling especially has dark patterns selling DVR space and loses audio sync constantly. Pluto is rock solid by comparison.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by taurath on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:31PM (#21821223)
Roku tends to have poor quality (outsourced) apps when companies have invested in a multiplatform system - brightscript doesn’t interoperate well with anything else so its usually an outsourced project.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by organsnyder on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:05PM (#21821395)
Funny. The Roku MLB.tv app blows every other platform out of the water.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by exhilaration on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:14AM (#21822028)
MLB has a world-class engineering team [1] so that's not a surprise. You might even say they're in a different league than other content providers.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/4/9090897/mlb-bam-live-strea...

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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by organsnyder on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:14AM (#21825634)
Ha. Their Roku app is the best non-live viewing experience I've ever experienced for any sporting event: during live games you can jump to specific innings/plays, change audio feeds between TV announcers, radio announcers, and stadium-only... really impressive.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by taurath on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:51PM (#21827357)
MLBAM must have done that in house. I'm not saying its impossible to do a good Roku app, it definitely is, and frequently its going to be faster because the language is fairly single purpose. But a roku team tends to need its own explicit resources. I've heard of a lot of gnashing of teeth from colleagues walking up to it, though I haven't played with it yet myself.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by pkamb on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:17PM (#21828955)
You think the Roku version of MLB is significantly better than, say, the Apple TV version of MLB? Why?
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by organsnyder on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:17PM (#21831499)
Never used the Apple TV version. But I have used the web and Android versions, and the Roku player blows them out of the water.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by sjg007 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @07:14PM (#21830856)
Better features.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by dicknuckle on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:58PM (#21828025)
My only complaint is that it completely freezes my firestick at least once a day. We plan on upgrading to something else so this shouldn't be a concern soon.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by bearcherian on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:30AM (#21822109)
Samsung has TV Plus which is included with all Samsung smart TVs and includes some Pluto channels as well as other channels, which just scheduled internet video content. Something I just discovered recently. I like it because I want some background noise, and don't want to spend 10 minutes deciding on what content to watch.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by op00to on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:53PM (#21829859)
Pluto is ok, except the quality stinks, and at least on my ISP, stutters on every streaming device in my house.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by williesleg on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:31PM (#21820644)
Pluto tv reminds me of those telemarketers that won't stop calling. Once I signed up I got endless spam and phishing attempts in my inbox making it almost unusable.
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Re:Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV by pkamb on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:35PM (#21820662)
Hmm, I never actually signed up. It works without sign-in.

The commercials aren't great. I wish I could pay to have it cut to the (cool!) Pluto.tv splash screens rather than see ads.

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