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Re:Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels by blinding-streak on Thursday August 15, 2024 @08:21AM (#41255064)
Compared to what? It's easily the best Internet cable TV product on the market IMHO.
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Re:Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels by iambateman on Thursday August 15, 2024 @09:03AM (#41255490)
It’s an odd “in between” between classic TV and YouTube itself.

If you want to watch “the most likely thing you would want to watch” (NFL, Olympics main feed), YouTubeTV is great.

But as soon as you want to find something off the top few recommendations, it gets much harder. Compare that to regular TV, when I could just remember 27 is Discovery Channel and get there instantly.

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Re:Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels by deelowe on Thursday August 15, 2024 @02:05PM (#41258781)
The answer is pretty obvious. They don't want people remembering the content producers. Same reason they've worked so hard to kill the subscription feed on YouTube. They want you to rely on their recommendation engine.
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Re:Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels by rr808 on Friday August 16, 2024 @11:36PM (#41272068)
It worked great on an ipad but on a TV app I had to go click, click, click, click 40 times to get to the channel I wanted.
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