Hacker News with Generative AI: Television

Apple TV+ spent $20B on original content. If only people watched (arstechnica.com)
Apple TV+ launched in 2019. Since then, the company has spent over $20 billion to build an impressive library of original content, Bloomberg reported earlier this year. Yet, despite a highly regarded library of shows and movies with big names in acting and directing, Apple TV+ only garnered 0.3 percent of US screen viewing time in June 2024, per Nielsen.

Streaming, Apple, Television, Content

9 points by asplake 2 days ago | 2 comments

My 80s TV can Wirelessly Receive my PC's video signal without transmitter[video] (youtube.com)

Retro Tech, Television, Wireless Transmission, DIY Projects, Video Streaming

4 points by archargelod 10 days ago | 0 comments

Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult (torrentfreak.com)
The Pirate Bay made its debut as a TV series on the Swedish streaming platform SVT Play earlier today. International viewers are left waiting until other services pick it up. In the meantime, some may be tempted to explore unofficial channels for pirated copies of the show. But finding a pirated copy is proving surprisingly difficult.

Television, Piracy, Streaming Services

112 points by HieronymusBosch 13 days ago | 85 comments

Star Trek Writer-Producer Jeri Taylor Dies at 86 (deadline.com)
Jeri Taylor, the Emmy-nominated scribe, producer, director and showrunner behind Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager (which she co-created), has died. She was 86.

Star Trek, Television, Obituaries, Entertainment, Science Fiction

12 points by acheron 21 days ago | 2 comments

SmartTube – an advanced player for set-top boxes and TVs running Android OS (github.com/yuliskov)
SmartTube is an advanced player for Android TVs and TV boxes, free & open source. You can play content from different public sources.

Android, Open Source, Software, Set-top Boxes, Television

117 points by petemir 22 days ago | 66 comments

Suits, money laundering, and linear programming (andrewpwheeler.com)
Currently watching Suits with the family, and an interesting little puzzle came up in the show. In Season 1, episode 8, there is a situation with money laundering from one account to many smaller accounts.

Television, Finance, Mathematics

75 points by apwheele 24 days ago | 30 comments

Everyone Got Lost in Netflix's Endless Library (nytimes.com)
Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture.

Streaming, Television, Culture, Media

5 points by gmays 32 days ago | 2 comments

Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed (bbc.co.uk)
Film cans containing unseen footage of the Thunderbirds TV show have been found in a garden shed.

Television, Film, History, Entertainment

218 points by samizdis 45 days ago | 95 comments

The X-Files Game (filfre.net)
Given the demographics of X-Files fandom, we probably shouldn’t be surprised that the show’s parent network Fox started to think about making a computer game that was officially based on it quite quickly.

Video Games, Television, Nostalgia

80 points by thurnderbong 46 days ago | 33 comments

ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface (github.com/cnlohr)
Hook an antenna up to GPIO3/RX, tune your analog TV to Channel 3. Power the ESP on!

Electronics, Hardware, DIY, Programming, Television

132 points by _Microft 48 days ago | 22 comments

Ceefax and the Birth of Interactive TV (bbc.com)
Ceefax was the world's first teletext service, going live on 23 September 1974. In a pre-internet world, the revolutionary system allowed people to check the latest BBC news and sport updates at the touch of a few buttons.

Television, History, Technology, Media

61 points by speckx 55 days ago | 35 comments

LG TVs Start Showing Ads on Screensavers (arstechnica.com)
Last month, Ars Technica went on a deep dive into the rapid growth of ads in TV software. Less than three weeks later, LG announced that it was adding advertisements to its TVs’ screensavers. The move embodies how ads are a growing and virtually inescapable part of the TV-viewing experience—even when you're not watching anything.

Advertising, Television, Technology, Privacy

47 points by m463 56 days ago | 87 comments

LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers (arstechnica.com)
Last month, Ars Technica went on a deep dive into the rapid growth of ads in TV software. Less than three weeks later, LG announced that it was adding advertisements to its TVs’ screensavers.

Advertising, Television, Consumer Electronics

18 points by canucker2016 57 days ago | 10 comments

I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them (jamesomalley.co.uk)
tl;dr: I have approximately 2000 VHS tapes containing off-air recordings of British TV in the last 90s and early 2000s in my garage. If you work for, or are connected with an archive that might be interested in taking them and saving the contents for posterity, I would love to talk to you. Please get in touch!

Media Preservation, Television, History, UK, Archives

326 points by keybits 57 days ago | 312 comments

'Ceefax gave you news when you wanted it' – Teletext at 50 (bbc.co.uk)
The world's first teletext service is to be celebrated at a special exhibition marking its 50th anniversary.

Technology, History, Television, Media, United Kingdom

27 points by timthorn 59 days ago | 1 comments

The Eleven Laws of Showrunning [pdf] (weebly.com)

Television, Writing, Entertainment, Media, Showrunning

82 points by goose- 61 days ago | 25 comments

'Hunger Games' studio Lionsgate announce AI video deal (bbc.com)
Entertainment giants Lionsgate are partnering with artificial intelligence (AI) company Runway to allow a new AI model to be trained on their extensive film and TV archive.

Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence, Film, Television

5 points by belter 63 days ago | 1 comments

Why your Nintendo was on Channel 3 (except in Cleveland) [video] (youtube.com)

Video Games, Television, History, Geography

14 points by LaserDiscMan 67 days ago | 0 comments

The Eleven Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf] (weebly.com)

Television, Writing, Entertainment, Screenwriting

8 points by tosh 67 days ago | 0 comments

What our childhood shows taught us about cities (2019) (thomasbardenett.com)
Since childhood we’ve been shown what our neighborhoods and cities could, and should, be like. Yet, we’ve continued to see our communities develop in ways that diverge greatly from these ideals. It’s time for us to look at what our childhood shows taught us about communities and how we can look to embrace these lessons moving forward.

Urban Planning, Nostalgia, Television, Community

21 points by omnibrain 67 days ago | 20 comments

YouTube starts showing ads when you pause a video on TV (9to5google.com)
YouTube is adding a new format for ads on your TV which shows up when you pause the video, and that’s starting to roll out to users.

YouTube, Advertising, Television, Digital Media, User Experience

6 points by thunderbong 68 days ago | 0 comments

You're Not Smiling Enough (rubenerd.com)
You know that Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons where the family is bundled off for some “Re-Neducation”, and everyone’s faces are forced into a smile with tenterhooks? It’s such a visceral image I can still remember it decades later. And weirdly, I feel as though I just experienced something a bit similar myself.

Humor, Culture, Television, Social Commentary

87 points by Brajeshwar 69 days ago | 45 comments

Not a Normal Field Trip (medium.com)
Thirty years ago today, one of the most impactful informal science initiatives in history debuted on American television. To the tune of rock-legend Little Richard, The Magic School Bus (MSB) animated series transported young viewers on field trips to the outer reaches of the solar system and inside the human body. Along the way, a crazy-haired teacher named Ms. Frizzle enabled her multicultural class to “take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!”

Education, Television, Science, Nostalgia

27 points by kelnos 69 days ago | 10 comments

Max Headroom and the World of Pseudo-CGI (2013) (cartoonbrew.com)
I’ve come across people who believe that Max Headroom, the Channel 4 character from the Eighties (pictured at top), was a genuine piece of computer animation. But although he was conceived by the animators Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel (of Cucumber Films fame) Max himself was portrayed by actor Matt Frewer, placed into latex makeup and a shiny costume and set amidst a range of technological tricks.

Television, History, Special Effects, Computer Graphics

181 points by Michelangelo11 71 days ago | 94 comments

ReBoot TV series 30th anniversary – remastered episode 1 'The Tearing' [video] (youtube.com)

Television, Anniversaries, Remastering, Video

7 points by ChrisArchitect 71 days ago | 5 comments

People who are colorblind are less likely to be picky eaters (theconversation.com)
The seventh season of Julia Child’s “The French Chef,” the first of the television series to air in color, revealed how color can change the experience of food.

Colorblindness, Food, Perception, Television

61 points by zdw 71 days ago | 27 comments

Stratovision (wikipedia.org)
Stratovision was an airborne television transmission relay system using aircraft flying at high altitudes.

Television, Technology, History, Aviation

7 points by binbag 72 days ago | 0 comments

The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5 (midwinter.com)
This is the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, a fan-made website devoted to the science fiction television series "Babylon 5".

Science Fiction, Television, Fan Culture

132 points by Tomte 74 days ago | 98 comments

UFC and MLB Join Pirate IPTV Blocking as Broadcasters Collaborate to Cut Costs (torrentfreak.com)

Sports, Piracy, Copyright, Streaming, Television

7 points by gslin 76 days ago | 0 comments

Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500 (marketwatch.com)

NFL, Sports, Streaming, Television, Money

69 points by ilamont 76 days ago | 87 comments