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It's supposed to be part of base Android 5.0+. There is a problem and workaround: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3199592/android-smart-...

Androids also have the option where you tell them not to lock if you're in your home (or other named places). Does iPhone support that?

I can't reproduce that. I wonder if it's on some specific channels.

It's missing ABC and CBS. And the DVR is more limited. But, yes, it's very inexpensive in comparison to YouTubeTV.

Yes, that's correct. Also, separately, Google is sunsetting the "Google Play Movies & TV app" and folding that into the YouTube (not YouTubeTV) app.

I have not had that problem. But, you do have to specifically wait for the actual air time to come and go before you're able to play it with fast-forward capability.

Once that's done, I've never had an issue with fast-forward. The UI does differentiate between "recorded" and "on-demand" content.

What I have run into:

- Something I recorded is no longer available, I assume because some contract expired.

- Something that's immediately available as on-demand isn't scheduled to air "Live". I can still click the thing that says to record it, but it never airs and so never records. That's pretty rare, but it's happened.

What was emailed to customers: https://pastebin.com/C3cEE3qq

The article with the most amount of direct quotes I could find: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/roku-youtube-tv-google...

Some comments from Roku's founder on a prior, similar situation: https://popculture.com/streaming/news/roku-founder-reveals-w...

There is still a set of people that like their local news a lot. Or don't want to figure out the piecemeal way to get access to their cooking show, some current ABC/NBC/CBS show, BBC America, old episodes of Forensic Files, etc, from X different places. Though I agree, I do see it dying out.

I feel the same way, but is there any safe haven? I assume Chromecasts or Amazon Fire would be subject to the same situation.

You can get some of what's offered on YouTube TV without commercials in other places, but it's a piecemeal adventure. If you shut down YouTube TV in favor of Amazon Prime, for example, you could pay for a subscription to AMC+ on Prime and watch "The Walking Dead", "Discovery of Witches", etc, without commercials. Or, older stuff, like "Law and Order" that has commercials on YouTube TV, but comes with Prime, no commercials.

Some detail here: https://popculture.com/streaming/news/roku-founder-reveals-w...

"Roku's standard terms for partner channels include 20% of subscription fees and 30% of ad inventory, which has driven away Peacock, as it is currently airing fewer than five minutes of ads per hour. Meanwhile, WarnerMedia has been looking to retire the HBO service now sold through Roku to promote HBO Max, which Roku has turned down singularly."

To me it just reads like Roku has grown it's subscriber base to the point where they can negotiate with content providers in the same way that cable companies used to. Which isn't great for end users, but it is what it is. Both HBOMax and Peacock ended up on Roku, so some deal was reached in both cases.

It does, because it's essentially the same thing as old school cable TV. You're getting access to ABC, CBS, PBS, NBC, Fox, FX, CNN, TNT, EPSN, BBC America, Food Network, HGTV, and so on. There's not really any service that offers (all of) that content without commercials.

You can use their cloud DVR to "record" something, and after that happens, you can fast forward through the commercials. Which is similar to what you would get with a old school cable and a real DVR.

I also hate commercials, and while you can find commercial free versions of some of the YouTube TV content, you can't find it for everything they air.

Streaming is so fragmented now, both in content and features, that you have to do quite a lot of research before buying.

Edit: The text of the email Roku is sending out: https://pastebin.com/C3cEE3qq

Probably a better analogy is that the back door to the evidence room that leads outside has been unlocked for an extended period of time.

From 2011 though, 4 years later...

>A total of 180 undergraduate psychology students participated in the study

Ahh. I had initially assumed kids, given the penny per pump thing. Though I suppose undergrads might feel pretty anxious about risking pennies :)

The seven years worth of "omg, thanks!" comments is pretty cool. Too bad the "small internet" is dying. Had it been a facebook comment or old tweet, it likely would have melted into obscurity.