Anyone just use Youtube for their TV viewing?

YT is my "cableTV" - all of my TV is YT. Am I the only one? I had Netflix, but there DVD selection got poorer and poorer and they lied when their database said they had the shows and my que - 2-3 yrs later said "Still coming sometime".......like the LEXX season 3 set. I got ALL of them in 2004, but when I decided to re--rent them in 2010, I never got 1/4 of them EVER!!!!!!!!!

same thing with many other shows too. just got fed up. their DVD selection "on screen" was the same as it was 10 yrs earlier - but in REALITY - most of their obscure stuff was GONE in the REAL WORLD (but on screen IT WAS THERE TO RENT).


jerks. fook em. I think I will goto cafeDVD.......they have the stuff Netflix USED to have - art house animation, independent films, obscure TV shows, 30's black and white classics, and foreign films.


............all stuff Netflix has turned it back on in becoming the next Blockbuster/Redbox Hollywood crap supplier.


..............but YT has some of that stuff - quite a lot in fact!!!!!!!!!! and why I LOVE Youtube!!!!!!!!!!!!! beat the sheet out of Crapflix in selection (if you like "sleepers").


I use my TV as the PC monitor and my PC as my TV cable-box.

I cut cableTV 16 yrs ago ----never looked back. for 12 of those years it was "lean" for me..........a few DVD's, VHS's, and over the air 6-8 channels.

but the last 4 years have been WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!! 60" HDTV with Youtube as my channel provider!

Oh wow.................reading your post got me into my long dormant "Crusader Mode" - to my last decade and half - Pirate Radio (Yes! to diverse progaming - death to Clear-channel/media-pap-consolidation (pap = consolidation and vise versa so repeating myself).

yes the "last mile" ISP's (a pox on ATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!) is one example - Death to ATT!!!!!!!!!

as is the Google (which bought Youtube - DEATH to Youtube!!!!!!!!!!!) - not the last mile, but 10 miles upstream....................yet still a consolidated Outrage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

but, I like YT and bow as an unworthy ant with no power nor influence - to Google, Youtube's mother for ALLOWING (for their own rea$on$ - which in this particular co-incide with mine) to ignore the blight of the DMCA and just "play dumb" instead.


ok by me........................as I keep a weary drunken eye on the Consolidated Monster "Google-Tube".........for the day that beast may decide to support the DMCA and become the enemy of Liberty and Life.

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lol. I told you from your post above you awakened my Don Quiote spirit!


just sayin.

.....................I've had 6 weak beers - and so decided (treating myself to a 4 day week FROM work - so ok - lol) to get a few more - and cigs (I quit, but with beers - I re-start).

just sayin......................

I'd like to comment on YT's offerings for those they may not know. not sure if you know, but if you do not - I'd like to offer some links to some great TV shows that Neflix never offered in either DVD nor streaming - that I found in YT and then bought the DVD box sets of.

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but will post after my trip (walking of course - I still have judgment even under influence) - hour or so.


if that is ok Sir.


thanks for reply and concurance in Spirit of my post ;-).

howdy - back with my 36 oz beer and coffin nails. have a good buddy live 6 blocks down the street - hopefully he will take the nails left tomorrow..............so I will not smoke them sober. sober nic is no prob - as long as they are not next to me. lol. enough willpower to not buy then, but will smoke them if sitting there. go figure.

anyway.

I love Cats and their vids - which YT excels at - but YT can "Can" be much MUCH more.

it can be a window to shows one never knew existed -------one has to take the time to read comments under vids to disscover other vids of interest.

Colditz:


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM82JDoeBE-hO8G8MJIgwB61Xgf4qipTo

start with the 3rd......firs ttow are slow.......the remaining 20 or so are great.

sapphire and steel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1XqNXAiVFav5jPS98UXouv8AbQ6j-STV

nowhere man (RIP Dean Jones - who died today - he is in one episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W64ZMyaJsmE&list=PL6fJmjt84zZjDCMUCDmvEnUKDwbWUr4JC


strange luck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGvVuMD-Psg&list=PL9B48A17E22EC919D

ufo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQtuowj2GvM&list=PLiaQGDce_8bVp12e4lqlZyFO1enQSaBWq

1990:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2DL9-Bx1ME&list=PLuZiyj7NXf_91hyAOyJnsky4mTjTiKHCk


department S:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pChkHvhvnU&list=PLKreEfL-AfILA-V9vXu1uFx3EHb-3K94o

callan (season 3-4 color):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhcsy7J5wNk&list=PLFHFABpjyxQnHdoezgr7nlesG2eSAjJI-

Raffles:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFHFABpjyxQmqZ2vkVWF2nxUh3h1Yto_m


callan - season 1 and 2 black and white: - full shows are now gone: this is promo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8kQyZ76mCk

Gideon's way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8Gbxq8Sqo&list=PL0biCPgfAN3LHJGAS12wVXObrekgwnX38

Dark Skies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqtgSDe03J0&list=PL100251E1431A0BA1

Human Jungle (I bought the DVD set - would love to upload for others to YT - but upload DSL speed is too slow - upload cancels after 11 hours - not enough for even one show. I see no others have offered this fab show on YT for others to disscover ;-/.)

My links above are TV centric and not movie but: but same concept: great full movies are there too - if you know the Director's name (I.E Majid Majidi, and the other Iranian that did "White Balloon" are there to watch/note and buy their works in DVD form (I'd say - "to rent via Netflix DVD form, but today I doubt it ;-(................)

Walter Sales too (Central Station and etc.................Brazilian director).

...............listening to Judee Sill right now (and now love Genesis (per Gabrial!---I never knew - growing up under pop Colins (thanks for nothing radio!) - genesis was THAT GOOD -now I do thanks to YT.)

never heard of Judee Sill, but read a comment from another artist via YT less than a year ago - checked her works up on YT (works offered in full violation of DMCA rule of law) - loved it! and so bought both her self titled and the even better one - her second album Heartfood.


------------no thanks to "radio" (which I gave up on 20 yrs ago for a vehicle of discovery (that's a laugh!!!!!!) - or for anything for that matter).

thanks You tube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


BTW Sill's "The Kiss" and Sandy Denny's (all thanks to Usenet binaries 16 yrs ago for her/their (fairport convention) offering to us .........NOT Radio!!!!!! (sandy who??????) "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" are the two top works of all time IMO.

bluegoatwoods said:

For me it's "Yes" and "No". I became a Hollywood hater a long time ago and haven't watched TV regularly since the late 1970s. And it's been practically zero in the last decade or so.

Occasionally I'll watch something like "Green Acres" or "The Twilight Zone" on Hulu. And I'll watch "fail" videos or research favorite musicians on YouTube.

But I'm more of an 'audio only' guy.

So the age of the internet has been a real bonus for me. Podcasts! I love 'em. And that's where I spend my computer time when it's not hands-on type stuff like this.

Recently I've been listening to a guy doing shows about the early space age. On the American side of it, he's been giving a lot of detail of, say, Gemini missions that is hard to get anywhere else. On the Soviet side of it he's got detail that I don't think was even known in the West until pretty recently. They had a lot of trouble getting the first few Soyuz's off the ground, for instance.

I think I've covered all of the MB stuff that I'm going to this evening, for that matter. So I think I'll go find out just how they finally managed to get one of them flying properly.

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Hi Blue. I sometimes troll for Podcasts - but there is a lot of Kruft (or is that with a "C"?) out there and so not a Podcast-centric guy. I did find Astronomy Cast, Titanium Physicists, and Dan Carlin's history podcast (Dan tends to be a little too ego-centric (his mother (I think rather than father - had some link in Hollywood in the 60's, scripe writer or some such) for me though)....there was a "Roman History" podcast that was quite good - but it was yrs ago and long since forgot the name of that one (nice and dry from one Hsitorican - not bombastic ---so "boring" by today's ADD populous....lol :-(.

anyway - as said, have limited time with other interests - like posting here, watching YT, riding my goped/etc.....................but welcome any Podcasts that you value. I've seen your posts here and suspect your interests and tastes are similar to mind and so your input I think I'd value.

thanks for your time Sr Blue.

Ludwig II said:

The audio and video industries hate the internet,.

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Indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!........this is why I fear the Internet's 20 yr now "Wild West" is under constant threat of control by "Media Interests" ----------- note that Netflix is now changing from a "movie rental" service to a "broadcaster of their own show$".......more money for the latter.

Netflix is not the Internet - so fine, good for them doing their own thing - I'll just drop supporting them via my membership and go to another company that is "rent movie" centric (like cafeDVD) for myself.

BUT YT is not Neflix - its GOOGLE (so more powerful). I do fear that "IF" Google decides to uphold DMCA - with control of YT (which if you are honest "is, in effect the "video part of the internet" today.......................yes there is Vimeo and Dailymotion (the latter majority owned by France's gov. so not interested or under control of DMCA (a good thing IMO))..........but those two together are what? 10-pecent the size of YT?.....IF Google $ee$ advantage in upholding the Satanic DMCA, they will and then we will lose 90-percent of the "Wild West" virtue of the Internet - the remaining 90-percent behind a copyright firewall of pay-per-view (or similar). This the price and reality of media consolidation (which has been our reality for the last 20 yrs).

today and last 15 yrs - Google has been our friend - playing the ignorance game (and lets be honest - ok? - they, you and I all know they willfully violate the DMCA). I hate DMCA so have no problem with ignoring unjust law (as SC justice John Jay trillions of years ago said about Jury Nullification- "an unjust law is neither law nor just" - or somesuch (or was that Franklin? - both guys were ok by me and shared the same mindset so whomever).

Ludwig II said:

they can't dictate what we watch. .

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But that is my fear - they CAN in fact. Today and the last 15 yrs Google has decided to not do so - but YT is Google and make up a large part of the "internet" and if they decide to respect the DMCA - they can and will end the YT you and I know and value. majority of stuff on YT is in violation of DMCA - as we all know.

if there is $$ advantage - to date there is not, but today is not tomorrow - Google has determined that there is more advantage to ignore DMCA than honour it - so far.

Ludwig II said:

Music has enjoyed a grass roots expansion as people discover new sounds, new ways of doing things through Youtube, and self serving marketeers can't put the brakes on it.

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indeed Sir, but I still fear and doubt your assumption of "no brakes"

Google is large enough now to in effect put the breaks on "the internet" - via YT if they decide to. I se no reason today - not be their actions so far - to see them doing so - but they CONTROL enough of "the internet" to make it a far less appealing thing - IF they decide to do $o.................(its all about the $$$ - to date they so on advantage in upholding DMCA - but tomorrow? - they may ;-/.

............and I'm not even talking about the "LAST MILE" (where in the more "We'll break your legs unless you pay us protection money" obvious way ATT/Comcast/Roadrunner/etc................has the mussel to "cut you off" unless you agree to their terms - which if they are according to DMCA -----then you are in the same boat as that of Google dictating the same said terms!!!!!!!!