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EXP TV – endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera

by syx on 8/2/23, 10:05 PM with 30 comments

  • by password4321 on 8/3/23, 2:44 AM

    See also: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

    http://astronaut.io/ (← this will seriously mess up your history if you're logged in...)

    2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204327721362 (1362 points, 239 comments)

    2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225 (429 points; 140 comments)

  • by rubymancer on 8/3/23, 5:48 AM

    I worked on this! It's curated by a few video editors in LA who collect vintage VHS tapes.

    They've been doing it for many years, the stream is the cream of the crop. You can't imagine the scope of the discard pile.

  • by neilk on 8/3/23, 12:52 AM

    Nobody is commenting because if you click the link you're hypnotized for an hour

  • by srvmshr on 8/3/23, 12:00 AM

    This is the closest I would get to watching Rick & Morty's Interdimensional cable TV :)

    Interesting concept!

  • by joemazerino on 8/3/23, 2:09 AM

    Cool idea. I like the thought of having this on a monitor constantly playing at a bar for cyberpunk decor.

  • by JohnDeHope on 8/3/23, 3:36 AM

    And just like that, poof, a thousand nerd hours of productivity go up in smoke.

  • by HanClinto on 8/3/23, 2:38 PM

    This is really cool!

    I find myself wanting to know a reference name or something for the clips that are shown. MTV would play the artist / song name at the beginning and end of each clip, and I find myself missing that little tag to mentally catalog these things.

  • by JKCalhoun on 8/3/23, 4:10 AM

    It feels like I died and met J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.

    I love it.

  • by genocidicbunny on 8/3/23, 11:06 AM

    I feel like I stumbled on this at an unfortunate time, because whatever is playing at the moment is very rapidly triggering a headache due to the flashing of clips at a rapid pace. Pretty sure I know some epileptics that would have been set off by this. Felt a little less like TV and more like that scene from Altered Carbon where the main character gets the unicorn backpack -- overwhelming bombardment of rapid images.

  • by hobo_mark on 8/3/23, 11:34 AM

  • by CheeseLovers on 8/3/23, 2:32 AM

    I wonder how many hours they have before you start seeing something you've seen already.

  • by jader201 on 8/3/23, 1:48 AM

    I think it would be even better if it were a live stream (maybe with chat to see others reacting to whatever bizarre broadcast happens to be playing).

  • by TheWoodsy on 8/3/23, 8:03 AM

    Kinda reminds me of neverthink.tv. Similar idea of endless video but curated into categories.

    I wish I could find an alternative.

  • by notbeuller on 8/3/23, 5:45 AM

    This should be hosted by Blank Reg from Max Headroom.

    It reminds me too of Over The Edge / Negativeland.

  • by Venn1 on 8/3/23, 2:08 AM

    That's some wholesome WTF.

  • by mootzville on 8/3/23, 2:26 AM

    This shit is amazing! Thanks.

  • by firecall on 8/3/23, 6:28 AM

    Amazing!

    Thanks for sharing!

    It’s almost like the Internet K-Hole for video!

  • by sourcecodeplz on 8/3/23, 10:59 AM

    This is not bad!

  • by lagniappe on 8/3/23, 12:51 PM

    reminds me of upl8.tv