You know the type. Forensic files, Alaska survival, family guy reruns, etc. Its one of my guilty pleasures is watching hotel tv ha!
Feel like this is one of those weird generational things, but isn’t happy hotel TV just regular cable TV?
Yeah, it’s just regular TV. You can probably even get it OTA with an antenna and digital tuner (which, if your TV has a coax input, is probably integrated).
They call it linear TV now
Yes it is, ha. I haven’t had cable for 15 years
Yeah I would have thought hotel TV meant things like beach TV.
Not quite what you asked for, but here: https://puffer.stanford.edu/
They have a crapload of these channels on Pluto TV - which is completely free.
Feels like they’ve been adding more ads, but still they have a ton of stuff, the movie selection is far better than most services particularly if you like not so new movies.
As long as you have a TV made after the digital conversion in like 2008, stick a paperclip into the antenna connector and get free channels. Seriously. You’ll be surprised how well it works. A real antenna is better and they’re cheap too. I do this and watch Telemundo for background noise and a little bit of Spanish learning.
https://www.myretrotvs.com/
Not exactly current, but as recent as 2009This is just amazing! Thank you!
I don’t really understand the interface, but I hit “power” and was watching some music videos from 1994 and I appreciate you sharing this ❤️
An antenna? If you don’t have a TV, you can get a tuner dongle and antenna for your PC and use VLC or other streaming video clients. Unfortunately, the services that take over-the-air signals and put them online usually get killed off by lawsuits. But tuner dongles and half decent, compact antennas are pretty cheap.
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Considering the community this is posted in, I think it’s fair to mention (if maybe not directly link to) there are devices that decode DRM and other encoding and pass on a stream that can be watched without needing all of that. The ones I saw were under $100. Though it’s definitely possible that these may get cracked down on eventually either by customs or changes in the DRM that requires internet connectivity to decode which has been discussed though seems dumb to need internet to watch a broadcast signal, but greed often causes stupid things like that.
Many of the free tier streaming services are packed with this content. Tubi, Roku, Plex Movies & TV, Google TV.
Get an iptv subscription and just watch cable. As a bonus you can watch tv in Costa Rica and Dubai and China and shit
Or better yet. Get an iptv plater (aka VLC), find some channels, and don’t pay for a subscription.
If you’re really only interested in in like forensic files and shit yeah this is probably the way to go. If you want sports you’ll have to pony up the $20-40/yr or whatever for somewhat okay plan
How do I find a good IPTV sub though.
Hey Costa Rica is not shit!
They didn’t say that
None of them are shit (well Dubai is).
Last time I was in Costa Rica I enjoyed myself quite a lot actually.
Here is a picture of quepos
I like the sign, like Mother Nature is out to kill your ass, but only beyond this point. Haha
There are many m3u8 playlists online. You just need a player. I think VLC is the most common but people use other players specifically for iptv. For example I use simple iptv in Kodi.
Unfortunately most playlists have lots of dead channels. There are online channel checkers but they’re pretty slow. Once you get a solid lineup of working channels, it’s smooth sailing.
Sounds like normal UK freeview terrestrial TV. I think there are freeview streaming sites and apps if you search.
There are many things like this on youtube that you can watch via third party software. The FBI files, all sorts of Alaska things, not sure about reruns. Ibjave used freetube for a long time but it doesn’t always work. Not working at all on Linux right now. At least not with the latest update. Newpipe still works if you are on mobile.
Try TV garden
Same — hotel TV is peak guilty-pleasure territory! Forensic Files at 3 a.m., Alaska Survival, and Family Guy reruns are my go-tos — there’s something weirdly comforting about slope rider flipping channels in a hotel room.
