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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-07 (Friday)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:30:46 -0500
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anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

>>> Hulu (with ads).
>>> 
>>> Ads not with standing it's an amazingly incompetently programmed streamer.
>>> 
>>> It will routinely auto play a different show rather than the next episode
>>> of the show you were watching. And if it does show you another episode of
>>> the same show it will just as often go backwards as forward.
>>> 
>>> If you leave it on pause for more than five minutes (in fairness, the five
>>> minute limitation is built into the 4K Firestick max, and you can't get
>>> around it) it goes to screensaver and here's what you have to do to resume
>>> playing:
>>> 
>>> Press the back button.
>>> That brings up some unwanted menu options so you have to press the back
>>> button again
>>> Keep doing that until it finally takes you back to Hulu
>>> Hulu will launch the profile page and you will have to choose who's
>>> watching
>>> Hulu will then take you to a welcome page and then auto go to home
>>> which has no useful options like resume.
>>> Tab left to get to the side menu
>>> Tab up to get to search
>>> Select search and tab right through the keyboard because you can't get
>>> around it.
>>> The seventh click takes you to the column for "trending searchs" in this
>>> case trying to get me to watch the rookie 
>>> tab up to select trending searches.
>>> Tab right to select recent searches.
>>> Tab down and hopefully get to show you were just watching.
>>> Click on that show.
>>> Click on that show again to go to the show.
>>> Click down to go to episodes.
>>> Click down again to actually get into the episodes
>>> click up or down to get to the episode you were watching
>>> Finally the one thing it does right is if you can find the episode you were
>>> watching it remembers and lets you resume.
>>> 
>>> Repeat the above process every time you get up and go to the kitchen to get
>>> a drink
>> 
>> How big is your home that it takes more than five minutes to get a
>> drink? ;)
>
>Let us not forget I'm hobbling around slaved to a walker

I discovered Dad uses a kneelchair now. :-(

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