Something Very Strange Happened When I Was Streaming Hulu

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OneEyedDiva

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I watch World News Tonight daily via Hulu. Broadcasts are usually available by 1 a.m. the next morning. I also sometimes watch Good Morning America which is usually available 5.5 hours after it airs, at about 12:30. Lately Hulu has been late posting the broadcasts. Then a couple of days ago, I was watching what was supposed to be GMA's Thursday December 7th broadcast. I noticed something strange when the reporter started talking about the rise in stock market on Thursday. Well when the show airs, the market isn't even open yet. Then they reported other news that I knew was from the week before.

I checked again and sure enough the broadcast was listed for Dec 7th. A similar thing happened with WNT. That evening I noticed they put the right broadcast up. Have you ever had glitchy things like that happen when you're streaming?
 

MarciKS said:
why does that seem so strange? aren't you paying for live tv?
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No I wouln't pay for live TV. It's more expensive and in essence you're paying to sit thru ads. It was supposed to be showing the broadcast from Thursday the 7th. GMA airs from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. The stock market doen't open until 9:30 and closes at 4, yet she was reporting on Thursday's rise in the market. Also in the report was the upcoming vote to oust congressman Santos, but that vote had already taken place the Friday before.
 

well then i'm confused because i don't understand what the problem is. i know live programming is filmed before it actually airs. i've never seen anything like that happen myself. so i don't know.
 
When you pay a streaming service, you are giving them to power of editorial control. They get to decide what you see, and when you see it.

On movie streaming sites they need to keep you engaged. How do they do that? They remove movies for no good reason, and then reintroduce then later in some "Autumn package" or "this months hits", or whatever. Pure marketing, and nothing to do with what consumers want. It's designed to keep you excited and engaged.

This is true of mainstream media, but few realize it's equally true of so called "alternative media".

I've no idea what happened in your instance, but a policy can change, an episode can be removed, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
 
Could it be as simple as mistakes being made?

Things don't always go right, especially around "changeover" times in daily and weekly schedules. When things go bad there can be a scramble to get going again and that's where mistakes might be made.

We used to have a daily "zero start" process at a scheduled time after midnight. Computer storage was expensive, so logs needed to be rolled over and queues reprocessed to reclaim space. That later went to weekly as storage got cheaper and finally computing power allowed a shift to continuous processing.

Our major off hours client was State law enforcement, and theirs was Federal. At one point we also began to feed all 49 other States and D.C. directly.

If anything went to pot during a zero start or the computer system crashed entirely they'd call and wake me up. Then nervously chuckle at my attempts to troubleshoot the problem and guide them in recovery while I was also trying to wake up. There was no remote access back then, it was all very Apollo 13. Hotline phones from law enforcement agencies angrily ringing off their hooks demanding service restoral estimates, night shift "backup ladies" getting flustered handling emergency calls by voice looking up microfiche records, etc. Police radios relaying over and over "MISOS is down. Repeat, MISOS is down."

Then the next morning, going in to the big boss, demanding details because his boss would be on him before noon. It was a lot for a young married kid in his 20s.
 
dilettante said:
Could it be as simple as mistakes being made?

Things don't always go right, especially around "changeover" times in daily and weekly schedules. When things go bad there can be a scramble to get going again and that's where mistakes might be made.

We used to have a daily "zero start" process at a scheduled time after midnight. Computer storage was expensive, so logs needed to be rolled over and queues reprocessed to reclaim space. That later went to weekly as storage got cheaper and finally computing power allowed a shift to continuous processing.

Our major off hours client was State law enforcement, and theirs was Federal. At one point we also began to feed all 49 other States and D.C. directly.

If anything went to pot during a zero start or the computer system crashed entirely they'd call and wake me up. Then nervously chuckle at my attempts to troubleshoot the problem and guide them in recovery while I was also trying to wake up. There was no remote access back then, it was all very Apollo 13. Hotline phones from law enforcement agencies angrily ringing off their hooks demanding service restoral estimates, night shift "backup ladies" getting flustered handling emergency calls by voice looking up microfiche records, etc. Police radios relaying over and over "MISOS is down. Repeat, MISOS is down."

Then the next morning, going in to the big boss, demanding details because his boss would be on him before noon. It was a lot for a young married kid in his 20s.
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Obviously something went wrong D. But the thing that gets me is I didn't start having these problems until after they raised their fee! Same with Netflix. Never had a problem streaming via Roku until after they doubled their subscription price. It's crazy!
 
I know my ability to stream on Roku fluctuates but I am blaming that on my hotspot. Netflix also raised my price but I am still able to stream them with no problem. I keep my download speed set slow. I don't mind a picture that is not as clear. Maybe something to do with the speed you are set at on the Roku?
 
DebraMae said:
I know my ability to stream on Roku fluctuates but I am blaming that on my hotspot. Netflix also raised my price but I am still able to stream them with no problem. I keep my download speed set slow. I don't mind a picture that is not as clear. Maybe something to do with the speed you are set at on the Roku?
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Speed can't be a factor because Verizon recently more than doubled my speed. Also, I have several other streaming platforms with which I have no problem at all. Netflix was buffering, then freezing the Roku and causing it to reset itself. I did not have the problem when using my tablet. I don't mind watching TV shows on the tablet, but prefer to watch movies on a larger screen.
 

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