[cgriswald]

To be honest, I’d treat your service like I treat IPTV. I would use your service for exposure to things I might enjoy and for curated lists and then go watch those things somewhere more convenient. Or I’d leave it on for my dogs.

TV schedules, the things shows had to do for those schedules, and advertisements feel like something I escaped from and I don’t see the appeal of going back at all. The only two benefits to me are: Knowing someone else is also watching the same thing (which could be done for streaming with a simple “viewers” count; and limited selection “forcing” me to watch something I wouldn’t otherwise watch. But that doesn’t really exist in this world anymore.

[mnky9800n]

Yeah that's all true and I agree with you. I just thought it would be fun to be able to create a television station. I always liked the weird al movie UHF as a kid, and I thought maybe it would be fun to have some kind of tv station manager simulator.

[cgriswald]

Crazy that you bring up UHF, because it is tradition for us to watch it on the 4th of July.

The idea definitely appeals to me, I just know I wouldn't use it properly. On the other hand, it might be fun to run as a personal service for my own stuff. A Plex plugin maybe.

Have you considered making it a game?

[mnky9800n]

Yeah in another comment thread it came to me that this might be more fun ahaha. Like this game developer simulators.