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Lionel Mandrake

(4,076 posts)
Sun Dec 18, 2022, 05:25 PM Dec 2022

YouTube TV is confusing.

I recently signed up for YouTube TV, which is a streaming service that I can get through my Roku device. But I'm finding it very non-intuitive. Stuff that should be easy isn't.

Sometimes I stop watching in the middle of a movie or in an episode of a TV show. When I come back, I would like to continue from where I stopped, but that doesn't seem to happen. Instead, I have to start from the beginning and fast forward through what I already watched. Grrrr.

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marble falls

(57,081 posts)
1. I'm in my 70s. It all confuses the bejeebers out of me. I'm lucky to get around DU ...
Sun Dec 18, 2022, 05:38 PM
Dec 2022

... there are all sorts of features here I kinda know about but couldn't use, and a lot I don't have a clue about.

cilla4progress

(24,731 posts)
3. Lionel,
Sun Dec 18, 2022, 06:11 PM
Dec 2022

I encounter similar problems there and get lost sometimes!

I don't understand Youtube TV/channels/ subscriptions/feed/Premium.???

Unnecessarily complicated!!

MacKasey

(986 posts)
4. Go to your home screen and click on thumbnail
Sun Dec 18, 2022, 06:17 PM
Dec 2022

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It should start you where you left off

Or go to your library

You need to be recording the program
See post #8, I was assuming you were when I wrote my original reply

I have been using YouTube tv for almost 2 years and Roku for 10

So if you got questions, just post and I will try to help

Fyi I record everything I watch so I avoid commercials

For example

If you are recording a program and it's been recording for a half hour, if you go to the live screen and click on that program you should get a window on screen that ask you if you want to join live or start from beginning

On sports you get the above two options and if you want to catch up just viewing key plays

MacKasey

(986 posts)
12. On the home screen the little squares with the names of the programs
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 09:22 PM
Dec 2022

That you are recording/watching

I call them thumbnails for lack of a better word

jalan48

(13,864 posts)
11. There's a "tour" app that you can use to learn about Youtube TV. When you
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 11:19 AM
Dec 2022

click on your avatar after signing in you will see it at the bottom of the drop down menu. I have used Google a lot in figuring the site out.

pwb

(11,261 posts)
14. I was at my daughters and she has Direct tv. They dumped FOX.
Wed Jan 25, 2023, 05:01 PM
Jan 2023

When you go to their channel it says fox wants to much. Give them a try maybe? I think ATT owns it so not much better. You tube always asks me to join and I was tempted. Thanks for the heads up. I like easy.

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