Yea mine has that too I understand how it works. Still, nothing new has been added to watch since Cleopatra Jones.
All I know is what I'm seeing here. Before I click "recently added". then "new to old" Cleopatra Jones is 1st. After, the new stuff shows up. If it helps Verizon is my ISP. I use Cloudflare:
for DNS.
Sounds like in addition to "firing" a bunch of movies/TV shows, they must also have fired many of their IT people...
It's not just the Roku channel; the TCM website has also not updated the On Demand movie list since last week. I authenticate my access through Astound/RCN cable. I hope bad things are not happening with TCM .... it is my favorite movie streaming source, as well. It would be sorely missed.
Ten days into this outage, I’d say ‘technical difficulties’ is indeed ‘corporate speak.’ Translated into plain English, it means ‘we’re shutting this down until we decide how we’re going to monetize access to movies on demand.’
Best case: annual subscription, a la Criterion Channel. Worst case, pay per view.
Looks like it's fixed. Over 100 new film listings arrived today!
https://filmschoolrejects.com/turner-classic-movies/
https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/tcm-network-cuts-david-zaslav.html
Who knows where this is all going........?
Anonymous-
Choice of DNS has nothing to do with it.
Recently Added is the default for displaying the available films. The most recent addition will be shown first.
If you change from Recently Added to one of the other choices, it changes the sort order for displaying the list of available films.
makaiguyok whatever just trying to help.
I thought this was a comcast/xfinity issue; but no. Nothing has been added to the ‘watch tcm’ lineup since ‘Cleopatra Jones’ whether I go to the tcm web site; access watch tcm via roku; or use the watch tcm app on my ipad.
There’s been no explanation from any source. TCM support is mum. Comcast support has no clue. I even ordered a new set-top cable box thinking that might be the problem. At least I now know I’m not the Lone Ranger… but that’s little consolation.
Thank heavens for The Criterion Channel or I’d be going through withdrawal like Sinatra in ‘The Man With The Golden Arm.’
I couldn't agree more .... I had been thinking this same thing over the weekend. If it were a "technical problem", how come the "Watch Live" function worked perfectly? I believe that there is going to be a WB subscription, with TCM on-demand content folded into it. This is sad; but predictable.
As time goes on, we will be paying as much, if not more, for these streaming packages as we ever paid for the "cable provider model." So it goes......
Something is still wrong. There is no option to add on-demand movies to my watch list.
Also, you can't watch them. They just seem to be thumbnails.
Same here. The thumbnails lead nowhere as far as I can tell.
What's funny is that you CAN watch the movies at the website by clicking them in the main list. There is NO option to add them to your watch list. I will test the android app later and see .......
Doesn’t work in iOS/Safari on my ipad. Haven’t tried my windows laptop yet.
I was down to 1 item in my watchlist but I noticed it was shown as empty. I had been logged out, so I logged back into Watch TCM and authenticated with my Directv account**. My missing watchlist item was then restored.
After logging in (didn't try before logging in) new entries, when viewed, did have the +WATCHLIST button and could be added. When I tried to watch them, though, all I got was the progression of Cs in various type styles that serves as a buffer indication on TCM. My one remaining pre-existing item from before this cockup occurred, Eating Raoul, loaded and ran in 2-3 seconds.
So there's been progress, I guess, but we're not home yet. At least they seem to be working on it.
Meanwhile I've been able to view a few things via my Directv TCM on-demand.
** Even in the best of times Watch TCM requires me to re-login so often that I've put a shortcut to tcm.com/activate/?platform=roku on both my tablet's and phone's home screens.
Certain, but not all, movies will play on a Windows PC in Firefox browser. They only play from the main list. If you click the "info" link in the thumbnail, there are no options to "play" or "add to watchlist."
The android app is equally wonky. So, the various distribution silos are not even synchronized. Hope they get their act together.
As of July 12, many new movies added to the list, but only those added at least ten days ago or so will play. The short clips for all movies seem to work. This is using safari to get to the website, the app via an ipad, or the app through a roku box and a sony bravia flat panel.
Has anyone got full functionality yet?
There appears to be SOME limited progress.
These are the latest entries I've received as of this writing, most recent first. The ones in Bolded Type consistently play okay for me, in repeated tries. The unbolded ones fail in repeated tries:
I don't know why some work and some don't. Stored on different servers, perhaps? But it does look like they are working on it.
Dang, you’re right. A few newer (recently added) movies will play in the app. Most still will not, but all of the short clips do play.
They must have a team of hamsters running in little wheels, busily downloading content.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/why-tcm-closing-down-channel-off-air-b1092463.html
I'm just so afraid that these "deals" floating around promising to "save" TCM in the US will be unsuccessful. Hope it's just my pessimism ...
