Federated streaming service when?
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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I think that's just BitTorrent.
Popcorn Time was pretty close
The issue with Streamio is that it uses torrents but doesn’t seed. It just caches the content and then deletes it. If everyone used Streamio, nobody would be able to because there would be no seeds for anything.
It's the reason I stopped using Stremio but it's also the reason why it remains legal in some countries. Popcorn Time had an option to enable/disable seeding on the settings. I really wish Stremio had the same.
I want to keep my ratio above 10, so I use a combination of several other things to replace Stremio on Android TV. It's a lot less polished but I get a good feeling from seeding.
Doesn't Apple do the same thing as Prime video where you can add other subscriptions through their app? Seems like this is a mistake on Apple's part while testing this feature for Netflix.
Apple provides a system for apps to expose their shows to the TV app; effectively every app other than Netflix uses that system but Netflix intentionally removed themselves from it.
Which effectively removed Netflix from my viewing habits because I use the TV app to manage all of my other apps/subscriptions, and because Netflix doesn’t show up I never consume their content. I still think it was a really stupid move on the part of Netflix.
Did you unsubscribe from Netflix? If you pay and don't watch, that's actually a good deal for Netflix.
They pulled that same shit on Android as well. But I think they are integrated back in on the current generation of it.
I’m not surprised. The argument at the time was that they needed users to be inside their own app and anything less was unacceptable.
Gotta gobble up dem user metrics, I guess.
Netflix is like the only one on Android I have that ISN'T opt-ed out.
You have to enable each service on Android TV. Most streaming services are on there.
Are you talking about the recommendations feature the home screen has or is there something ~~better~~ else that I don't know about?
Except Apple doesn’t auto-log-out people in multi-user homes, kinda makes it a PITA to do so, and forces you to have one main account.. that then becomes the nexus for all content the users/family watches.
So (a) that feed is absolutely useless in these homes and (b) some people don’t want their netflix queue showing up for everyone to see (the kids, for example).
In my experience the last accessed account within a streaming service is what shows.
Source: I've been using Apple TV for years.
Yes, that doesn’t conflict with what I said above. There are also multiple streaming services, so anyone of them could have had any one of the apple tv users as their last login.
Or, you know, you could just use Apple’s feature and switch to a different Apple TV (device) user account? This should also switch to whatever accounts that user was logged in to in all related services.
I have been using a single Apple TV in a multi-user home for many years, I think you’re overselling the difficulty here. Virtually every app will just ask you what user profile you want to use when the app opens; and when you’re done, closing the app is simple.
It’s far more obnoxious to need to browse every single app for their content rather than having a single unified watch list and closing an app when you’re done.
What are you even talking about?? This entire thread- no post- is about apple showing the content of the apps in the main feed?
Are you lost? This discussion has nothing to do with login in or out of specific apps.
I mean, you lead with “logging out is hard so I have no choice but to have a single user”. I countered with “it’s not hard, we do it just fine, here are mechanics that make it fairly easy”.
If you don’t understand that closing the tv app stops showing the tv app I’m not sure how to help you.
Logging out of apple tv you imbecile
Solid argument. Go you.
My argument is founded inherently by the fact you invented a problem of logging in/out of individual apps from thin air, then tried to lay it at my feet as my problem. This due ostensibly to your inability to follow context. The nature of your imbecility is simply implied by the facts and your blind arrogance.
AppleTVs have a quick user switch capability that I think you’re just not aware of.
Hold the menu button down and the menu comes up it’s literally the first option, the user.
If you’re not using the hardware but are instead using the app … yeah, that’s standard fare.
They do, but apps can integrate their content with the TV app without subscriptions being controlled by Apple as well.
Ahh, so this must be on apple devices only.