AshesOfOwls

Looks like I am going to have some competition!

I think cable as an idea is fantastic, specifically because it has curated content. You can tell when a cable television channel went down the drain when their lineups either weren't consistent or started playing the same 4 things every day.

With genre based channels you can bring back a little of that monoculture we had and can share experiences with other people. Being able to watch things like the latest episode of stranger things debut at the same time in parallel with other people is just more fun that queueing it up randomly.

I have actually been working on this concept but focused on content creators at https://react.tv. It lets you use digital media to create a television channel. The hope is to offer this same kind of experience for creators without having to make a deal with a company like Netflix.

There is definitely something to be said about the curation aspect of it, too.

Scrolling using an algorithm is ultimately guesswork, and network television spent months putting together specific lineups to curate a specific taste for its viewers.

My favorite example is cartoon network, toonami, and adult swim. These are all on the same channel but have such distinct differences for the eyes that would be watching.

I think I also miss a lot of the hand made transition videos between commercials, or the ways they would advertise marathons. It always gave a bigger sense of the theme you were watching instead of just seeing dragon Ball z.

I have actually been working on a concept to bring this back. It's been in development for over a year, and allows you to create television channels from several digital media sources.

I have been polishing it up a lot and recently added a feature called Blocks which lets you create generative schedules akin to how traditional television aligns content to half hour or quarter hour intervals.

The hope is that it can carry on this torch of television, where content creators can band together and create themed channels. I think giving them a good toolset to do this will bring back a lot of creativity in being more than just a 24/7 stream of videos.

If you're interested at all, it's currently live at https://react.tv

I'm working on https://react.tv

It lets you create TV channels from digital media such as YouTube, The Internet Archive, TikTok, Twitch, and Dailymotion. It does that by letting you schedule videos against a custom calendar system.

Since filling out even a month of content can be a lot of work, I built some things to make the process easier.

* Advanced scheduler to know when and how long content can be played at any given datetime

* Real time team collaboration

* Channel libraries to organize media

* "Blocks" - Create a dynamic schedule which generate hours of content that mimics real television scheduling. It even carries over your playback history between generations so that playlists continue from where they left off.

* A catalog to find media from official sources on YouTube

* Embeddable as an OBS browser source to restream your owned content

* Repeat content infinitely or temporarily to create 24/7 channels.

If all goes well I am hoping to re-release sometime this month.

I've been working on my own flavor of this but it's digital media instead of local files, https://react.tv

My very own, fully functional tab key!

Thanks again to Ben and the team at cursor for this lovely souvenir. Tab autocomplete is at the core of my Al coding, to say it saved me days of work is an under exaggeration. I had no idea this was a thing until they reached out to me so to hear the number I reached gave me a combination of laughter and shock.

If anyone has questions about how I use it in my workflow I would be happy to answer.