How come Dish Network or other satelite services. Do not allow you to create a playlist? Like if I record 5 different episodes of Sunday Morning why cant I just put it on play and it goes thru each?

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Anything that slows you down keeps you from utilizing it more and impacting their service costs.

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It was possible to setup your VCR to record at specific times. The fancy ones could even change the channel for it.

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ok i guess I was misread i ment have a playlist where one episode leads into the nother without any interaction from me besides setting up the list

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    • Toes@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh I wasn’t suggesting it as a fix. Just saying what you’re describing was kinda possible in the 90s. Like others mentioned your provider may have a DVR solution capable of it, but I’ve never seen one. Sorry if I caused any confusion.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because DVRs exist.

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You think they give even one single fuck how much customer satisfaction you have?

  Remember how folks used to say “if you’re not paying, you’re the product”? (That, of course, was never actually true. There’s tons of, for instance, FOSS software out there that legitimately has no ulterior motives or strings attached, potentially aside from copyleft obligations that you don’t try to turn FOSS into proprietary software. But it was true to a certain point.)

  Well now that’s true even if you are paying. To them you’re just a revenue source to be milked. They don’t care if you’re happy. Switching to a competitor probably won’t help any, because all their competitors probably have similar problems. You might get lucky and find a provider whose issues aren’t as much of an issue for you specifically. But the headache of switching is stressful enough that shopping around may well not be worth it.

  #enshittification #latestagecapitalism

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  • DomeGuy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In FOSS you’re paying with your time and plausible feedback / contributions.

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    • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can contribute that way. (Or with money, for instance.) And good on you if you do. (If you contribute in a way that’s actually beneficial, at least. I don’t mean to accuse you or anyone in particular, but of course there are low-effort PRs and such.) But it would be pretty antithetical to the spirit of FOSS to deny you the use of the software or access to the source code if you don’t. Which is part of the beauty.

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