Subj : Re: The Disney+ price hik
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed Oct 08 2025 07:57:19

>  DW> PBS Passport is the only "pay" service I have, so to speak.  I have not
>  DW> been able to watch anything on their service in nearly a year, though.
>  DW> I worked with my local channel, and PBS, tech support for a while and
>  DW> they couldn't figure it out.  Called my cable company and the tech had
>  DW> me try a bunch of things, then suggested that I plug the PC directly
>  DW> into the modem, bypassing the router.  That caused it to work.

>  That is weird, PBS is just TLS-enabled web traffic. If you could surf
>  the web you should be able to get to PBS.

You'd think.  I was using the local affiliate's website because the video
player on the main PBS website does not play videos in any web browsers
attempted (firefox, chromium, epiphany) on (my) linux systems.

The back and forth handoffs between my affiliate's Passport site, and the
PBS site, is where it would fail.  I suspect they changed something on
their end regarding these handoffs but could never get anyone technical
enough who understood what that meant -- the best they could do was "log
directly onto the PBS site."

If I had some sort of "parental controls" activated, I would expect that
might happen but, as the only restrictions I have set are for inbound
traffic (i.e. which ports are open for BBS traffic), it is weird.


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