Hacker News with Generative AI: Streaming

Netflix CEO Says Movie Theaters Are Dead (semafor.com)
Sorry, cinephiles: The post-Covid rebound of live events is all the more evidence that movie theaters are never coming back, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos told me in an interview at the Paley Center for Media Friday.
Movies, Streaming, Business
24 points by m463 2 days ago | 44 comments
Exptv.org is a 24/7 curated, montage of vintage and obscure media (exptv.org)
EXP TV is a live tv channel broadcasting an endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera.
Television, Media, Vintage, Streaming, Curated
17 points by mraniki 2 days ago | 1 comments
TV Garden (tv.garden)
Welcome to tv.garden, your gateway to free live TV streaming from anywhere.
Streaming, TV, International, Entertainment
246 points by vkdelta 3 days ago | 46 comments
TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make money off your data (vox.com)
Roku, Amazon, and practically every company in the streaming business are inventing new ways to make money off your data.
Privacy, Streaming, Data Collection, Technology, Business
64 points by rmason 5 days ago | 33 comments
TVgarden (tv.garden)
Welcome to tv.garden, your gateway to free live TV streaming from anywhere.
Streaming, Television, Entertainment
8 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 3 comments
Fast columnar JSON decoding with arrow-rs (arroyo.dev)
JSON is the most common serialization format used in streaming pipelines, so it pays to be able to deserialize it fast. This post covers in detail how the arrow-json library works to perform very efficient columnar JSON decoding, and the additions we've made for streaming use cases.
JSON, Data Processing, Performance Optimization, Streaming, Libraries
56 points by necubi 10 days ago | 7 comments
Plex remote stream no longer free; Plex Pass 2x price hike (plex.tv)
You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting things to roll out, with even more in the planning stages. But first, we have to share some important upcoming changes to our personal media offering and our Privacy Policy that are necessary to make all this great stuff happen.
Streaming, Pricing, Subscription Services, Privacy Policy
8 points by Naracion 12 days ago | 7 comments
TV+ Losing $1B Annually as Apple Services Falter (macrumors.com)
Apple TV+ is hemorrhaging money amid a broader stall in Apple's services, according to a new report from The Information's Wayne Ma.
Apple, Streaming, Finance, Business
5 points by Tomte 13 days ago | 4 comments
Sonos reportedly scraps its long-expected streaming video device (engadget.com)
Sorry to everyone who was waiting for Sonos to release a streaming video device — it seems that's not happening anytime soon.
Consumer Electronics, Streaming, Sonos
5 points by CharlesW 21 days ago | 0 comments
A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon (2024) (readtrung.com)
These are the two most-streamed children's shows. Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps Cocomelon's engagement-hacking approach.
Children's Television, Animation, Creative Process, Streaming
198 points by gmays 22 days ago | 215 comments
Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage (9to5google.com)
Over the past few hours, owners of the Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio haven’t been able to Cast any audio or video content.
Chromecast, Google, Streaming
12 points by clan 24 days ago | 3 comments
Twitch's new storage limits will purge swaths of Internet gaming history (arstechnica.com)
Amazon-owned platform says "costly" historical archives don't drive "engagement."
Twitch, Gaming, Streaming, Internet History, Archives
58 points by 01-_- 40 days ago | 45 comments
Twitch caps streamers' storage at 100 hours of highlights and uploads (techcrunch.com)
Twitch on Wednesday announced it will begin limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads, and will delete content if a channel exceeds the limit.
Streaming, Twitch, Content Management, Video
4 points by el_duderino 41 days ago | 0 comments
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System (jellyfin.org)
Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media.
Free Software, Media, Streaming, Open Source, Self-Hosting
492 points by doener 46 days ago | 284 comments
Show HN: Fluvio 38.8x faster than Kafka (infinyon.com)
At InfinyOn for the past 6 years we have obsessed over developer ergonomics, functionality, and reliability of Fluvio and Stateful DataFlow. It’s not trivial to build a distributed streaming engine from the ground up.
Software, Streaming, Performance, Comparisons, Open Source
11 points by debadyutirc 49 days ago | 2 comments
YouTube CEO:TV surpassed Mobile as primary device for YouTube viewing in the US (youtube)
This year marks YouTube’s 20th birthday. In two decades, YouTube has transformed culture through video and built a thriving creative economy.
YouTube, Streaming, Television, Digital Media, Culture
22 points by smgit 50 days ago | 11 comments
More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile (engadget.com)
YouTube has officially been around for two decades and a lot has changed over the years — including how people watch it. Now, a new report from YouTube claims TV has overtaken mobile to become the primary device for viewing content in the US.
YouTube, Streaming, Television, Mobile
64 points by mikece 50 days ago | 87 comments
Physical media is officially back (embedded.substack.com)
“Those movies and TV shows that you're watching on Netflix and Amazon, they're going to disappear,” Allison NB says.
Streaming, Entertainment, Media, Physical Media
16 points by herbertl 55 days ago | 12 comments
Disney+ loses 700k subscribers following price increase (macrumors.com)
Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers worldwide in recent months, according to Disney's earnings results for the first quarter of 2025.
Streaming, Disney, Business, Price Increases
75 points by mgh2 55 days ago | 77 comments
Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube? (tedium.co)
In recent years, we’ve complained a lot about Warner Bros. Discovery, in part because their decision-making has seemed almost toxic and damaging to the creative community.
Streaming, Media, Entertainment, Business
641 points by shortformblog 56 days ago | 473 comments
Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year (variety.com)
Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024 — some $1 billion more than last year, the previous record — making its total around $60 billion since it was founded in 2006. The company made the announcement in a blog post Tuesday morning.
Music Industry, Streaming, Business, Spotify, Finance
37 points by ilamont 57 days ago | 79 comments
FOSDEM 2025: Streaming Schedule (fosdem.org)
Links to the live streaming in each room will appear on this page during the conference.
FOSDEM 2025, Conferences, Streaming, Technology
147 points by torvald 61 days ago | 27 comments
Airflow – Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices (airflow.app)
Airflow is different We're not cutting any corners. This is not yet another FFmpeg wrapper like you might have seen elsewhere. Don't get us wrong, we love FFmpeg and use many of its parts under the hood, but our custom built video processing pipeline goes way beyond wrapping FFmpeg and calling it a day. We've been working on it for years it and it lets us do things that other similar software simply can't.
macOS, Streaming, Video Processing, AirPlay, Media
222 points by tiagod 63 days ago | 79 comments
NTS Radio: ad-free, 24/7 radio that plays an eclectic range of music (nts.live)
Music, Radio, Streaming, Entertainment
3 points by thunderbong 69 days ago | 0 comments
Media over QUIC and the Future of High-Quality, Low-Latency Streaming (streamingmedia.com)
Much of today’s internet video content has settled into a dichotomy of delivery methods: the cost-effective but slightly lagging HTTP adaptive streaming and the ultra-responsive but expensive infrastructure of WebRTC-based video- conferencing.
Streaming, Video, WebRTC, Internet, Technology
6 points by zfg 75 days ago | 0 comments
Star Trek: Section 31 is Paramount Plus' attempt to add spies to Trek (polygon.com)
Either Section 31 is a betrayal of everything the Federation stands for, or the Federation isn’t utopian
Star Trek, Television, Streaming, Science Fiction, Paramount Plus
4 points by Tomte 80 days ago | 0 comments
Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale (tokyoweekender.com)
In less than a week, the second season of Squid Game — a show about desperate people participating in deadly challenges for money — was viewed nearly 70 million times, becoming the most popular Netflix show in 92 countries.
Netflix, Television, South Korea, Streaming, Pop Culture
224 points by ecliptik 83 days ago | 290 comments
My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks (reddit.com)
My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks
Amazon, Streaming, Consumer Issues, Technology
138 points by MourYother 84 days ago | 97 comments
Disney to Merge Hulu and Live TV with Fubo, Taking on YouTube TV (hollywoodreporter.com)
The Walt Disney Co. will merge its streaming multichannel video service Hulu with Live TV with its competitor Fubo in a surprise deal that will shake up the streaming TV business, the companies said Monday.
Streaming, Media, Competition
14 points by jbredeche 86 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3 (github.com/janwilmake)
Today I was inspired by this tweet after which I fell into this rabbit hole to create an efficient recorder for your Screen, System audio, and Mic.
Open Source, Streaming, Audio/Video, Cloud Storage
78 points by wwoessi 88 days ago | 33 comments