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> Try yourself: think of a TV show that was big in the last 10 years, then search for it on YouTube. I did. I thought of "Breaking Bad". Searched for it. There

> Try yourself: think of a TV show that was big in the last 10 years, then search for it on YouTube. I did. I thought of "Breaking Bad". Searched for it. There are indeed many reviews and shorts, and on the side of the search result in a separate box I see the official show with a big "buy" button. Apparently I can buy the first season for £10.49. > In the off chance that the actual content of the show is actually on YouTube, the odds that you'll get the episodes of the show in your search result in any sensible order seems like zero. Not for me. It is all organised neatly into seasons. I can buy individual episodes or whole seasons. > But if you pick one (say CNN) and go to their page on YouTube, you can see a list of clips. But the clips seem randomly selected and unordered a a week old. So there is no way I can play their "news"? At least not at first sight. Not in my experience? I typed "CNN" into the search bar and it displayed a big box on top of the organic results saying "Latest from CNN" with the latest video uploads of theirs in order. When I click on the CNN channel it indeed shows various programmes CNN has. If I want to see their latest videos I need to click on the tab "Videos". It can be ordered "latest", "most popular" and "oldest" where "latest" is the default for me.

alkonaut 3y ago
When I look at CNN’s or BBC’s latest it’s not tv-broadcasts it’s just uncutated clips. To use that for TV replacement seems painful. (If by TV we mean watching something on a big screen without having to interact with it for a long while). The only way to watch clips that way would be to queue up a playlist of say ten 3 minute news bites but that still doesn’t tell me anything about their relative importance. So what I’m looking for is the 30 minute broadcast where these clips are used, where a less important story (objectively! I don’t want personal content that defeats the point!) gets perhaps broadcast cut down to 10 seconds while the big headline clip gets the full 3 minutes. YouTube is the opposite of that. It’s trying to let me pick what I personally find interesting. But at least for news this is a completely useless idea most of the time. Perhaps some outlet publishes their “news at 6” type programs too?
- krisoft 3y ago
  > So what I’m looking for is the 30 minute broadcast where these clips are used, where a less important story (objectively! I don’t want personal content that defeats the point!) gets perhaps broadcast cut down to 10 seconds while the big headline clip gets the full 3 minutes. Maybe the solution simply is that what you want is not youtube? Horses for courses. If broadcast TV fits exactly what you desire then that is what you should watch. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.

alkonaut 3y ago

When I look at CNN’s or BBC’s latest it’s not tv-broadcasts it’s just uncutated clips. To use that for TV replacement seems painful. (If by TV we mean watching something on a big screen without having to interact with it for a long while). The only way to watch clips that way would be to queue up a playlist of say ten 3 minute news bites but that still doesn’t tell me anything about their relative importance. So what I’m looking for is the 30 minute broadcast where these clips are used, where a less important story (objectively! I don’t want personal content that defeats the point!) gets perhaps broadcast cut down to 10 seconds while the big headline clip gets the full 3 minutes. YouTube is the opposite of that. It’s trying to let me pick what I personally find interesting. But at least for news this is a completely useless idea most of the time. Perhaps some outlet publishes their “news at 6” type programs too?

krisoft 3y ago
> So what I’m looking for is the 30 minute broadcast where these clips are used, where a less important story (objectively! I don’t want personal content that defeats the point!) gets perhaps broadcast cut down to 10 seconds while the big headline clip gets the full 3 minutes. Maybe the solution simply is that what you want is not youtube? Horses for courses. If broadcast TV fits exactly what you desire then that is what you should watch. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.