FYI: PBS Livestream issue is real
PBS livestream suddenly not loading as of yesterday. This is *not* an issue with which type of Roku, as I have both a stick and another TV with Roku built in. Just went to PBS website to log a tick...
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Problem is continuing for a second day.
Is anyone looking for a cause/soluiton?
The wording on the PBS website actually reads "Roku live streaming remains down. We will update this banner when resolved. There is no need to submit a ticket for this issue."
I suspect this issue, based on my reading of that message, is NOT a technical one; but instead might be described as business / financial. PBS and Roku might be in a row, and I don't think there's any reason to expect an immediate resolution. If the problem was a technical one I think PBS would have given a simple description; instead they stated there was no need to report it (they're already well aware it exists)
HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS !!
I dunno. Usually if there is some kind of dispute, you hear about that dispute long before anything is taken down. The content providers usually want the viewers to become upset and complain to the carrier. (Like all those: "I'll dump Roku if you dump youtube" posts recently.) Did anyone click on the more details link? I tried but it wanted me to log into something and I didn't want to.
Please see the update I just pasted as a reply on my original post, it looks like it may be fixed tomorrow 12/16🤞🤞
That's wonderful. Let's keep our fingers crossed. However, I'm not expecting things to change until late tomorrow (maybe); but most likely not until sometime over the weekend.
Have a nice weekend.
You know, I'm new to steaming; and it seems obvious it could have been a mistake. Instead of being dependent upon good behavior from a single cable company; I'm now dependent upon good behavior from the media companies themselves as well as Roku. Any one of them can play us.
Ain't that wonderful. Technology has REALLY 'improved' our lives !?!?!?!?!?!
I share the concern about the wisdom of making the switch to streaming.
We have one TV equipped with a ROKU - so no PBS for reasons that are never explained. And we have a second TV that the salesman promised would be just wonderful - except its an LG and it's operating system isn't compatible PBS, something I discovered only after many attempts to program it to access PBS.
So it appears that we have a choice between being abused by the cable company, or being abused by technology manufacturers who promise but don't actually deliver.
