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jaylach
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:07 pm |
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I'm gradually looking to drop Spectrum cable and go with streaming services using Century Link for my Internet and phone. Not counting sports stuff I currently have the following streaming services: - Disney Plus with no ads Hulu and ESPN plus
- Netflix
- Prime Video
- Paramount plus
All is working well and I can access any of the services directly through my displays and/or in a browser. What I'm finding to be a problem is organization between services. I would be surprised if nothing is out there to organize streaming services but am having little luck searching such an app; probably just not thinking of the right search phrase. What I'm looking for is an app that will allow me to enter a streaming service(s) with log in credentials that will bring up a program listing for each service all at once. The lack of such an app is the biggest obstacle to my getting rid of Spectrum cable. I need to be able to have a program guide for all my streaming services at the same time. It would be fine if each service had its own area for a guide with other services having their guide area. Anyone know of any such software?
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sboots
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 10:29 pm |
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I'm not familiar with any such service or app, but I'll keep an eye out. I currently have Amazon Prime Video, Hulu (with ads), and Paramount+. Of those, I only really watch Paramount+ for the Star Trek series. My wife watches Handmaid's Tale on Hulu. I have Prime, simply because I'm a Prime customer for the free shipping perk (I buy a lot from Amazon!).
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jaylach
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 11:37 pm |
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Just had a dangerous thought. Something like what I want could probably with Office Excel but I'm getting lazy and would rather something already done.
I already have an Excel menu set up for my movie library using links. Why would I not be able to set up blocks of cells that have their source from my streaming services? Could probably be done but I'd have to learn a bit more to do it.
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jaylach
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 7:53 pm |
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Just to follow up on this I think that I have what, for me, will be the easiest solution. I have figured out how to embed a web site in Excel but it just doesn't do as I want.
I'm just going to build a web page using an HTML function with the label of <div> or <embed>. Using this function I can split the page in to sections with each section using a page area for each streaming service. As each section will be unique in relation to the others I should be able to scroll each section independent of the others. Now I just need to get around to doing the deed which, actually, should be pretty easy. Should even be able to include a preview area. Mayhaps even set it up to where the preview area can be made full screen for actual viewing. My largest display, 55 inch LG OLED, uses WEBOS which includes a browser. The TV also can use external media, such as a flash drive, for storage. Be kind of cool if I could access my resulting page from a flash drive on the TV.
If anyone does a lot of streaming, and my idea works as I figure, I'd be happy to offer the results to any that want.
@Steve: Have you watched Star Trek Picard on Paramount+? I just started.
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sboots
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 12:05 pm |
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jaylach wrote: @Steve: Have you watched Star Trek Picard on Paramount+? I just started. Not yet. I will, though. I have been looking forward to it!
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jaylach
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 3:07 pm |
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sboots wrote: jaylach wrote: @Steve: Have you watched Star Trek Picard on Paramount+? I just started. Not yet. I will, though. I have been looking forward to it! LOL! I keep having to start over. I keep getting distracted and missing stuff. Does look interesting.
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jaylach
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 5:15 pm |
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Well so much for doing a streaming organizer via a web page. At least Netflix and Paramount Plus will not allow embedding their sites.
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sboots
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 6:04 pm |
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jaylach wrote: Well so much for doing a streaming organizer via a web page. At least Netflix and Paramount Plus will not allow embedding their sites. Ah, well...
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jaylach
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 6:08 pm |
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sboots wrote: jaylach wrote: Well so much for doing a streaming organizer via a web page. At least Netflix and Paramount Plus will not allow embedding their sites. Ah, well... I basically still have it covered but it is a little cumbersome. For normal browsing I use Firefox but use Edge for streaming. Right now my Edge 'home page' is different tabs for each streaming service. Not exactly how I want things but still usable.
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