Red Mosquito

Monkey_Driven wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:hey M_D (or anyone else using YoutubeTV)... have you had problems with video not loading after commercial breaks? i'm watching through Roku, and this happens quite often to me. the only fix that i'm aware of is to exit the entire app, then reload the video from where i left off... the best part is it replays the same 5 commercials i just sat through.

Ran into that exact issue last night. Never had that problem with our Smart TV though.

bodysnatcher wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:hey M_D (or anyone else using YoutubeTV)... have you had problems with video not loading after commercial breaks? i'm watching through Roku, and this happens quite often to me. the only fix that i'm aware of is to exit the entire app, then reload the video from where i left off... the best part is it replays the same 5 commercials i just sat through.

Ran into that exact issue last night. Never had that problem with our Smart TV though.

Using a Roku too?

I chatted with YouTube TV support last night, and they had me uninstall the app, reinstall it, power cycle and reboot the roku, then log back into YTTV. We’ll see if that works.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:just got Hoopla. It connects to your library account and you can stream tons of movies/tv on demand for free. Y'all should look at it.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:just got Hoopla. It connects to your library account and you can stream tons of movies/tv on demand for free. Y'all should look at it.

nice

this is available for Roku, btw

tragabigzanda wrote:just got Hoopla. It connects to your library account and you can stream tons of movies/tv on demand for free. Y'all should look at it.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:just got Hoopla. It connects to your library account and you can stream tons of movies/tv on demand for free. Y'all should look at it.

nice

this is available for Roku, btw

I still don't really understand Roku. But good to know.

Monkey_Driven wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:just got Hoopla. It connects to your library account and you can stream tons of movies/tv on demand for free. Y'all should look at it.

nice

this is available for Roku, btw

I still don't really understand Roku. But good to know.

What don't you understand about it?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:It is like a fire stick, chrome cast, or apple tv. But it is called Roku. And was around before all of those.

durdencommatyler wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:It is like a fire stick, chrome cast, or apple tv. But it is called Roku. And was around before all of those.

Is it external like an Apple TV?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:It’s a proprietary technology that is available both as a stand-alone box/gadget, or can be irrevocably pre-installed on certain TVs and serve as the base operating system.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Also, a simple typing of the letters R-O-K-U into Google might have helped answer your question.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:It is like a fire stick, chrome cast, or apple tv. But it is called Roku. And was around before all of those.

Is it external like an Apple TV?

For the most part yes. But like some tv's that come with amazon fire built in, I think there are some that have Roku built in as well. It is just another device to download streaming apps on to.