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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I have a very low level Vizio TV from 4 years ago, and some janky-rear end internet service, and it's incredible the difference between the various apps: My Vizio hates prime and paramount Plus and HBO max randomly turns off which is very annoying. Everything else works great but navigating paramount Plus is the worst.
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I have an older LG TV that stopped supporting plex and never had support for other stuff like HBO, so I picked up the newer chrome cast that's out there and it plays everything really well.
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Mar 27, 2022 12:57
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Glottis posted:There is no "knowing what's going on" in that show. The people writing it don't even know what is going on. Either you enjoy complete insanity or not. veni veni veni posted:It's insane but it's not hard to follow or anything imo. Yeah, Raised by Wolves is super "the subtext is text." It's all insane poo poo but it's super easy to follow imo, I don't get the confusion some people have (haven't watched S2 yet).
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Mar 27, 2022 14:51
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I have a very low level Vizio TV from 4 years ago, and some janky-rear end internet service, and it's incredible the difference between the various apps: I have a LG that was keeping up for a bit but I finally threw in the towel and got a Fire stick (and like 500 Chromecasts I've gathered through the years). Now I feel dumb for waiting, it's so much faster than the native apps.
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Mar 27, 2022 15:31
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Yeah, using my first generation Chromecast on my 10 year old TV is so much easier than anything else I’ve seen at friends’ homes. Smartphone is the best remote.
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Mar 27, 2022 16:11
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GonSmithe posted:Yeah, Raised by Wolves is super "the subtext is text." It's all insane poo poo but it's super easy to follow imo, I don't get the confusion some people have (haven't watched S2 yet). Season 2, certainly the last few episodes of it especially, are excessively more batshit insane Not that I'd say it's difficult to follow even then, just, the act of describing it to someone feels like trying to teach someone a language on the fly by just uttering a few sentences in it and then asking "did you understand"
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Mar 27, 2022 16:15
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I have a Samsung tablet that I watch all my streaming stuff on and I've never had a problem with any of them except for Hulu not working for a bit. But I'm not even paying for that one so I don't give a poo poo.
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Mar 27, 2022 16:19
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The new episode of Atlanta Holy gently caress dude
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Mar 27, 2022 16:22
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I have a brand new very nice Samsung TV and Hulu struggles to work. It's just a dogshit app.
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Mar 27, 2022 16:25
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I'll just be watching Hulu on the Vizio for a while and then all of a sudden it'll go "that's all the television there is" and just stop working for an indeterminate amount of time. Completely and totally stop working. I've either got to give up on that movie or show or pull out my tablet/phone and use that. Somewhere around a half hour to 2 hours later Hulu will decide to work again. It's the darndest thing.
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Mar 27, 2022 19:20
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i just stream everything using an Nvidia shield, works pretty good, allegedly
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Mar 27, 2022 19:33
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When I worked at Netflix I eventually just started telling people with Smart TVs and Chromecasts to buy a basic Roku. I got a lot of calls over Smart TVs, and Chromecasts were just too complicated for some people. Please always connect your streaming device directly to your modem or router via Ethernet wire.
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Mar 27, 2022 19:41
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I use a cheap smart TV and it works fine
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Mar 27, 2022 19:42
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In my experience the native apps on smart tvs work fine until suddenly they don't so at that point I grab a cheap streaming stick until the TV gets replaced and the cycle begins anew
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Mar 27, 2022 19:47
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'll just be watching Hulu on the Vizio for a while and then all of a sudden it'll go "that's all the television there is" and just stop working for an indeterminate amount of time. Completely and totally stop working. I've either got to give up on that movie or show or pull out my tablet/phone and use that. Somewhere around a half hour to 2 hours later Hulu will decide to work again. It's the darndest thing. I completely forgot that the Hulu app is also awful on my Vizio. It's so bad that I haven't used the app in months and just stream stuff from my phone's app to the tv
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Mar 27, 2022 19:55
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I got a 4K apple TV back when Directv streaming was doing a "sign up for our service for a month and we'll give you one." It's a great device (and obviously it playing with the other apple stuff in the house nicely is a bonus), but if it ever broke I don't think I could stomach paying for a replacement at, what, 2-3x the cost of the equivalent Roku?
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Mar 27, 2022 20:00
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I have an old Roku that I used for a long time but HBO's app is borderline unusable on it, and I have a PS4 but the Hulu app freezes completely randomly on it, and I have a PS5 but the AppleTV app won't let me login whatsoever, so it's really a question of what streaming service to do without (AppleTV obviously) and which room to put each in I also have a PS3 I was using for a long time as a secondary streaming device but one day the HBO app updated to say it was no longer going to work on PS3s and to get a newer system 
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Mar 27, 2022 20:13
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Boxman posted:I got a 4K apple TV back when Directv streaming was doing a "sign up for our service for a month and we'll give you one." It's a great device (and obviously it playing with the other apple stuff in the house nicely is a bonus), but if it ever broke I don't think I could stomach paying for a replacement at, what, 2-3x the cost of the equivalent Roku? 
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Mar 27, 2022 20:31
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I just use the cheapest model Roku box and literally never have problems with the streaming apps anymore edit: like, I have a smart TV, and Roku works so much better. just get one. they're like 15 bucks at target
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Mar 27, 2022 20:31
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Servant pretty much answered zero this season. Thankfully next season is the last, but I am starting to wonder if they even truly know the answers. Edit: About streaming devices. I have tried Roku, Chromecast, and Fire (that Cube thing was the last one I tried), but I always come back to AppleTV. It has it's own shortcomings, but it is worth the extra money to me. That said do you really need it now that the AppleTV app is out there? Of course not, but every time I tried another device I always take it back within days and go back to AppleTV. I guess just personal preference. The only other thing I ever found that I liked is the webOS that comes with my LG OLED CXs. I like the wii like remote feature and the OS is not that bad at all. Every once and awhile I have some app issues, but rarely.
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Mar 27, 2022 21:04
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Not new but I'm in the midst of watching The Pacific on HBO Max, basically the Pacific War version of Band of Brothers. Pretty incredible how it whipsaws from a surprisingly effective romantic drama in Melbourne in one episode to some of the most brutal scenes of battle I've seen anywhere Rami Malek splunking rocks in the open skull of a dead Japanese soldier broke me as much as it did Sledge. How have I never heard of the Battle of Peleiliu?
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Mar 27, 2022 21:24
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nate fisher posted:Servant pretty much answered zero this season. Thankfully next season is the last, but I am starting to wonder if they even truly know the answers. Yeah, I watched the first few episodes of the new season, and realized they were just treading water. I couldn't even remember if the baby was real or not again.
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Mar 27, 2022 21:52
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:How have I never heard of the Battle of Peleiliu? Speaking as someone who knows a lot about the War in the Pacific: because it really sucked and it was really, really pointless.
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Mar 27, 2022 22:28
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nate fisher posted:Servant pretty much answered zero this season. Thankfully next season is the last, but I am starting to wonder if they even truly know the answers. I'm glad I quit watching in mid season 2. I get more grouchy about this crap the older I get. I don't want mysteries, I don't want cliffhangers, I don't want dangling threads, I just want everything wrapped up nice and neat. Real life has enough mysteries and intangibles already, I don't need that in my fiction.
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Mar 27, 2022 22:33
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didn't know Servant had a season 2, and now am not really in a hurry to watch it lmao
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precision posted:didn't know Servant had a season 2, and now am not really in a hurry to watch it lmao It's finished season 3
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GonSmithe posted:Yeah, Raised by Wolves is super "the subtext is text." It's all insane poo poo but it's super easy to follow imo, I don't get the confusion some people have (haven't watched S2 yet). I should clarify - it's impossible to know what might happen next because every moment is totally nonsense. There are no clear arcs. For instance, the concept of someone turning into a loving tree was clear but came out of nowhere. Confusing? No. Still absolute nonsense
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Glottis posted:I should clarify - it's impossible to know what might happen next because every moment is totally nonsense. There are no clear arcs. For instance, the concept of someone turning into a loving tree was clear but came out of nowhere. Confusing? No. Still absolute nonsense
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It's amazing how Servant was originally planned to be 60 episodes, then was shortened to 4 and now 3 seasons. You saying nothing substantial happened in season 2 doesn't give me a lot of hope there. I watched season 1 but it despite some good performances by the actors I have very little interest in how it all pans out. On a more positive note, Severance keeps delivering with each new episode, it's definitely one of the most compelling new series in recent memory.
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Speaking of BoB and The Pacific I am absolutely stoked for the eventual Mighty 8th series and boy is that one going to be hugely depressing.
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Glottis posted:I should clarify - it's impossible to know what might happen next because every moment is totally nonsense. There are no clear arcs. For instance, the concept of someone turning into a loving tree was clear but came out of nowhere. Confusing? No. Still absolute nonsense if you are asking questions like this you are missing the point of the show. The show has zero interest in going into the details of how things work. It's not hard sci fi it's a fantasy show. The only important aspect of Sue turning into a tree was why she was turned into a tree, which we found out. Idg how people have made it through two seasons of this show and are still sitting there like "when are they going to explain in logical detail a sensible reason for why the characters get their chores by eating magic marbles". it's like watching Zardoz and wishing it was more like the Expanse.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Speaking of BoB and The Pacific I am absolutely stoked for the eventual Mighty 8th series and boy is that one going to be hugely depressing. more so than the others?
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veni veni veni posted:Idg how people have made it through two seasons of this show and are still sitting there like "when are they going to explain in logical detail a sensible reason for why the characters get their chores by eating magic marbles". it's like watching Zardoz and wishing it was more like the Expanse.
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Mar 28, 2022 09:21
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Glottis posted:I should clarify - it's impossible to know what might happen next because every moment is totally nonsense. There are no clear arcs. For instance, the concept of someone turning into a loving tree was clear but came out of nowhere. Confusing? No. Still absolute nonsense Please stop consuming media like this. You are complaining about someone turning into a tree in a show about a robot called a Necromancer created by a civilizations of Atheists.
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Glottis posted:I should clarify - it's impossible to know what might happen next because every moment is totally nonsense. There are no clear arcs. For instance, the concept of someone turning into a loving tree was clear but came out of nowhere. Confusing? No. Still absolute nonsense Dogg, a good chunk of the season has characters searching for the tree & saying the tree is important. The Marcus character specifically believes that its fruit will have magical healing properties and help usher in a utopia. They then show exactly how the tree works - like, step-by-step. There's literally an instructional video.
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Been watching through the BBC series Ghosts on HBOmax. Really enjoying it so far, my fave bit has been the normally smart caveman being turned into a crazy conspiracy theorist by Youtube's autoplay function. Hilarious AND accurate.
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Mar 28, 2022 14:16
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I'm planning to get to the BBC version, but the US remake of Ghosts on CBS is hilarious. Just great casting all around and consistently makes me laugh.
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Mar 28, 2022 14:33
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yeah both versions of Ghosts are really good. it's the sort of premise that could be done really bad, and the US version comes close to being bad, but never quite gets there.
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Mar 28, 2022 17:44
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Blade Runner 2049 is number 2 on Netflix. Seems like it’s getting a second life after being a box office bomb, just like the original.
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what are some good ghost in the shells. I keep seeing new ones pop up every few years. I've only seen the movie but the movie was sweet
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