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Dec. 24th, 2020
Roku continues to be amazing
Dec. 24th, 2020 11:59 am The single best thing about the Roku device is the remote control, and the best thing about the remote is the voice search and the best thing about the voice search is that instead of searching one service at a time it searches the ENTIRE UNIVERSE of channels. Not just the list of channel apps that you happened to have installed, but every channel that you COULD install. And if the thing you are looking for is only available on some hidden free channel that nobody ever heard of, the search function offers to install it for you immediately.
Thus we were able to watch the little-known holiday special that Richard has been pining for since 1989: Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration. I had already done a Google search and determined that the only way to see this thing again is to purchase the outrageously expensive DVD. But just to make him happy, I did a Roku voice search and damned if it didn't pop up! On some secret channel called OSI 74 (Outer Space International), which looks like some bozo's YouTube channel but I can't even find it on YouTube. Most of the content looks like it was produced by said bozo, but there are a few obviously copyrighted shows (which probably aren't supposed to be there, but who am I to say?).
Anyway, a delightful surprise, and all three of us watched it with great pleasure. Then I managed to talk Richard into watching the next episode of Upstart Crow, which he admitted was funnier than he thought it would be. This episode was another one featuring the delightfully unreliable character of Kit Marlowe, who is the kind of best friend that sincerely believes that sharing his scintillating personality and social cachet with a nerdy introvert is more than enough compensation for stealing his plays.
Thus we were able to watch the little-known holiday special that Richard has been pining for since 1989: Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration. I had already done a Google search and determined that the only way to see this thing again is to purchase the outrageously expensive DVD. But just to make him happy, I did a Roku voice search and damned if it didn't pop up! On some secret channel called OSI 74 (Outer Space International), which looks like some bozo's YouTube channel but I can't even find it on YouTube. Most of the content looks like it was produced by said bozo, but there are a few obviously copyrighted shows (which probably aren't supposed to be there, but who am I to say?).
Anyway, a delightful surprise, and all three of us watched it with great pleasure. Then I managed to talk Richard into watching the next episode of Upstart Crow, which he admitted was funnier than he thought it would be. This episode was another one featuring the delightfully unreliable character of Kit Marlowe, who is the kind of best friend that sincerely believes that sharing his scintillating personality and social cachet with a nerdy introvert is more than enough compensation for stealing his plays.