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wintorez ◴[] No.36909082[source]
There is something extremely addictive about flipping channels on TV. I think it's the magic formula behind the popularity of TikTok. It's not "yet another social media app", it's TV re-invented.
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Apocryphon ◴[] No.36910135[source]
I always did think that streaming services need to revive their format and bypass menu choice fatigue by letting you create "channels" by picking from shows/genres you like and then set you loose to channel surf.
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1. esalman ◴[] No.36913927[source]
Google TV on Chromecast does that, kind of. I have a list of favorite free channels that I sometimes shuffle between. The channels themselves come from Plex, Pluto, freeve and Google TV itself.