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SIX MINUTES OF AD/“ZEN” TIME DURING RECORDED SHOWS
The channel choices are great, but they have recently started doing something that is so annoying, I’m going to be looking for alternative services. I record a lot of my programs to watch in my free time. Recently, they have inserted a 5-6 minute segment of ads and their “zen” time showing nature scenes…. and THEN there are still a couple commercials after that!!! Totally annoying!!!
They also don’t allow for deleting recorded programs…which I guess there is unlimited storage space, but I don’t need to keep some programs indefinitely. Along with that, they used to show which programs have already been watched but not anymore and that is a frustrating waste of time trying to find what you’ve watched and not watched.
The commercials/zen is quite possibly a deal breaker! The only reason for three stars is for the great channel line-up!!Show lessDebi884
Worst streaming tv app ever
The design of the app is just plain stupid. Number one you can’t delete a show you have recorded. No other streaming app is like that. Why do you make users put up with the clutter of months n months worth of shows? It says shows remain until they expire. Yet the disappear at random. I have shows only a month old that just vanish yet another has sat there for 9 months now. If you set it to record a show it sets it to record it on every channel that show is on. That’s stupid. I set it yo record a football game and every game with that team records. I’m get recordings of the Dallas cowboys that are months and ever years old. I don’t want those. You can set it to record only new shows. That’s stupid. It records dozens and dozens of old shows and you cant delete them either. I could go on and on. No thought at all was put into this app. It’s clumsy. Takes lots of steps to get anything done and it’s design makes no sense. It’s almost as it they sat down and said. Just how stupid and backwards can we make it. It that was the goal mission accomplished.Show lessplgtfvjg
Not worth money
Glitchy. Won’t show me anything in the window when I’m seeking through time more than half the time. Has so many problems skipping the commercials that it practically forces you to watch them. If it wasn’t free with Verizon, I wouldn’t be using it at all. And I’m glad Verizon gave me the chance to know should never give these people my money. It’s only tolerable if I can skip the commercials. And every time I try it gives me issues, which ruin my peaceful state of mind that is very hard to hold onto with my ptsd. For my own mental health, I probably shouldn’t use it—even if it is free. I have never seen an app have such horrible problems with seeking. It being such an oddball with that makes it feel intentional. The app on Roku and my iPhone have this issue. The fact that it has the same (if not worse)problem on both formats, makes it even seem more likely that it is intentional. Unless you like watching commercials, don’t bother.Show lessOmegalLizardLicker
Cannot “start at beginning”
It takes thirty minutes to an hour for the artificial “intelligence” to realize a new program has started and match that to the guide. If, for example, you want to start a football game “at the beginning” that started thirty minutes ago, it sends you to the end of the programming immediately proceeding the football game rather than the beginning of the new football game and there is no way to fast forward from the old programming to the new one. It blocks you. This is a problem that has existed for at least a couple of years. You have to join the game live which of course shows the score of the game that you didn’t want to know yet unless you get lucky and join live during a commercial. It is an absolutely STUPID problem to have. The guide is correct, but “start the beginning” doesn’t work until the game is thirty minutes to an hour old.Show lessLonghorn Believer
Two fatal flaws
I mostly love this app, but there are two major problems with it.
1) when skipping around in a recorded program to avoid commercials, once the video starts playing, it frequently has portions of audio that do not play. I will hear 2–3 seconds of audio, and then 1-2 seconds of silence. This bug repeats itself until I force close the app and start over. This happens dozens of times per day and is entirely unacceptable.
2) sometimes I really have to search to find a recently recorded program. On occasion, I will have to use the Search feature within the app just to find something that was recorded an hour ago. The recently recorded section needs to be chronological and it is not.
3) I don’t consider this a fatal flaw, just an annoyance. When, watching on my television, I can scroll on the guide to find programs that will air in the future. On the app, I only have access to programs that are live right now. That’s kind of ridiculous.Show lessjb41ios20
Trouble Resuming Videos… Otherwise Brilliant
The app mostly does exactly what it needs to do. But lately it has developed a nasty habit of starting a moving back over at the beginning when I am trying to resume watching something. It’s a minor inconvenience, but in the moment, it was maddening. I was served an ad roll when I opened up the video. Then I scrubbed to where I thought I was… another ad roll. Not quite the right place, so I scrubbed again. Another ad roll. After about 8 minutes, I finally got back to where I needed to be.
I keep a note of my last watch point now so I only have to scrub once.
Note to developers: This behavior persists after updating the app, updating my iPhone OS, reinstalling the app, signing out and back in, etc. Also, the problem is a device problem; resume works just fine when I’m logged into my account on the Chrome browser. I hope you can fix this! It will cost you subscribers if it hasn’t already.Show less@AJDesignCo
Add features
Two features needs to be added. Delete and profile tabs
Delete button is necessary to have when you no longer want a program to be in your library. Even though it is cool to be able to keep a recording for nine months before it drops out it is also necessary to add a delete button to delete shows or program you only want to see once and not sit there for a long time before it drops out. Being able to delete programs what you want to watch one time is a must have as the nine months thing should only apply to the program you want to keep that long. Please make that change and add a celete button to delete programs you want to watch only once.
Profile button should be added so that instead of sending invitation to family members and make it hard to be added doing that, adding a profile button is a better choice that way you can click on add profile and just enter the name of that person that way they can start using it. It is that simple. The way it is is too complicated.Show less4starlite55
Way too many ads
Many people switched to YoutubeTV since it was cheaper than satellite. Then the price increases multiple times. Then there are advertisements. Then there are more, longer advertisements.
You must record many things if you wish to watch them as streaming is not available. Then to top it all off, after you record the show and are finally ready to watch one, you have to watch a timed advertisement. Then every so often there are longer advertisements. (Literally a downgrade from Dish because at least with those recordings, you could fast forward during commercials). Not to mention, sometimes it forces you to watch an ad before an episode starts, then plays another 2:00 minute one after the show intro. Also, if you lost your spot due to stepping out of the room for a while whilst it is playing, you may have to watch an ad to go back to the spot you were at. And to top it all off, I’d you pause a show for a few minutes and come back to resume watching, you guessed it, another ad.Show lessreench
App makes it extremely difficult for people traveling often for their jobs
Google is beginning to shamelessly throw you privacy out the window. If you aren’t concerned with them mining your location data like the gold rush, then I can assure you will be bothered by their content gates locked by mining your location. This $60 a month app will force you to update your location to use it each time your location changes. That might not sound so bad on its own, theoretically you should just be able to simply update and watch right? Nope not how it works at all. It’s super buggy. Even when it is “updated” you will get hit with a “content not available outside of your area until fully recorded” error message. So this means if you legitimately travel for your job, and location changes often, you still won’t be able to use your subscription reliably, which is just insane for such a high subscription cost.Show lessthreadpoolz
New App Bug Introduced
New guide on AppleTV has a scrolling defect that as you scroll down, it sometimes jumps to the right into a future bracket for the show under the previous location above. There’s no apparent rhyme or reason. It won’t just scroll down and maintain its current time section. It shouldn’t be jumping hours ahead, it just needs to scroll down IN THE SAME HOUR BRACKET IT’S CURRENTLY IN!!! This wasn’t a problem with the previous version until you introduced this stupid new guide which is just stupid looking.
New AppleTV guide view was a BAD change!!! Now your eyes have to constantly shift if you’re scrolling through the guide and want to also see the live preview for the highlighted channel and it’s quite visually annoying. Why would you change this?! Stupid decision. Ever since you enabled 5.1 sound on your streams on AppleTV, the volume level has gone into the dump! Everything is half volume from where it was before. This needs to be fixed!Show lessSwankPeRFection
