Great selections of movies and shows
I originally set my subscription up for the show American Rust but it never got renewed. I stuck around for Dexter and watched yellow jackets. I decided not to renew my subscription since they decided not to renew
American Rust. And since then there were many shows or movies that would interest me to resubscribe. Now I have the paramount plus and able to watch showtime! Every now and then there are great movies that peaks my interest which is awesome. However… I’m not sure if it’s just the movie or on shows too but the caption option is kind of useless. When I have it on it just places the captions anywhere on the screen blocking a scene or a face and it moves it around. So that’s annoying. Sometimes I like to use the caption if some of the dialogue is not clear or I can’t have the volume up too loud to prevent disturbing my elderly grandmother while monitoring her.
American Rust. And since then there were many shows or movies that would interest me to resubscribe. Now I have the paramount plus and able to watch showtime! Every now and then there are great movies that peaks my interest which is awesome. However… I’m not sure if it’s just the movie or on shows too but the caption option is kind of useless. When I have it on it just places the captions anywhere on the screen blocking a scene or a face and it moves it around. So that’s annoying. Sometimes I like to use the caption if some of the dialogue is not clear or I can’t have the volume up too loud to prevent disturbing my elderly grandmother while monitoring her.
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Infinite Storm Review (and side note about HBOmax)
(This review box popped up and I don’t know if it is for HBO or the movie i just watched). Anyway,a phenomenal experience; so much more than a movie. I’ve never seen a better piece of art about grief..this is up there with Picasso’s war painting/s, The Scream, Bird Song (by Phillip Glass) and perhaps Deer Hunter and Toni Morrison’s Beloved and John Trudel’s life.
As for showtime…liking much here..therapeutic some of it like the movie infinite storm. Would be nice to effect play speeds and perhaps have place for social connection/comments or whatever though the latter is probably way too much to ask. Can’t believe what is available these days to watch (and the quality too) compared to the old days not long ago.
As for showtime…liking much here..therapeutic some of it like the movie infinite storm. Would be nice to effect play speeds and perhaps have place for social connection/comments or whatever though the latter is probably way too much to ask. Can’t believe what is available these days to watch (and the quality too) compared to the old days not long ago.
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Trash
This application is terrible. I watch shows on my Apple TV often through Showtime. Going on a work trip I decided to try the app. Terrible mistake. Downloaded the app and logged in just fine. Even downloaded several movies for the long flight. NONE of the movies would play correctly. The stuttered and stopped often and the sound and video would be out of sync when they started playing again. I spent and hour going through starting and stopping a movie, force closing the app for get a few more minutes of movie. Eventually the choppy view was too much and I stopped. When I arrived at the hotel and got onto wifi the same problems showed. I thought it might be my device so I opened Netflix, downloaded and movie and turned off wifi. The download played flawlessly. Opened iTunes, another great viewing experience. Tried Showtime app one last time, again terribly unwatchable. Do not waste your time.
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Response from developer
We hate to hear that you are running into difficulty when watching SHOWTIME content, and we would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this with you and your device. Please visit us online at help.showtime.com where you will find contact options for Customer Care. We want to help!
The cancellation flow is tricky
I tried to cancel the subscription before my billing day, and thought I succeeded since the 30 day free trial ads came out on the screen and also top right corner like what it did before I subscribed. But noooo, it turns out I have to find and click the very small line of “no I still want to cancel” on the 30 day free trail page to finalize my cancellation. Learnt that after I got charged today. And I feel getting tricked which is not a good feeling. I wanted to cancel in the first place because of some tech preference such as the ui and recommendation doesn’t serve well to me but now I just feel like I don’t want to use this service ever again.
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literally terrible
don’t waste your time or money on showtime it’s quite literally the worst streaming app ever. why am i receiving a notification saying “Network Error” on a downloaded episode. i took the time to go in and download each episode since i knew i wouldn’t have wifi for a certain amount of time and now youre telling me im not even able to stream the episodes i downloaded? one, your episodes take centuries to download despite how short they are. two, even after waiting those centuries for your downloaded content they’re not even gonna work. most definitely not continuing my subscription
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Consider some changes
Showtime, do better. Your app has specific issues that need addressing and make it stand apart from other streaming service apps in a negative way. So many better ways to improve UI/UX: Rewind Instead of allowing users to scrub through the episode and have a visual of how far back or forward you’re actually going. I can’t see where I am so I’m doing more FF and REW to get to the right spot. There’s a separate button to rewind and fast forward instead of being able to simply scrub along the track. That’s an unnecessary step too. Next Up Episodes Often the next episode is coming and the episode I’m watching isn’t even done yet. Should know not to end the episode and auto-begin the next one until there is no more show left to see, even if it happens after the credits (rare but should be considered) Loading Shows and movies and CONSISTENTLY being interrupted by reloading. This is 2022 and none of the other apps I use have this issue. I’ve literally begun playing a game where I try to guess the next action or words the actor is going to say. Closed Caption Options are too big. Small is really large.
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Response from developer
We appreciate your interest in SHOWTIME and your suggestion to improve the SHOWTIME app. Your comments regarding content navigation have been forwarded internally for consideration when making app enhancements in the future. Thank you for watching SHOWTIME!
Needs to be accessible
Voiceover is my screen reader that iPhone uses like I said the main page of the app when you open, it works great with voiceover it’s just the player it’s just when I click on the movie and it starts playing and I run my finger across the screen it doesn’t do nothing I can’t get the rewind pause fast forward button or player back so if you can fix that thank you guys keep up the good work that’s the only thing it needs to be accessible is when you get into the player besides that it’s a really great app everything else is accessible with my voiceover I can run my finger, crossed the screen ever tell me the name of the titles and the movies The main page the whole app works great with my voiceover. It’s just when I click on a movie and hit play and it goes into the player. I can’t ask it without closing the app I meant to say exit without closing the app if you can just get a hold of some tools to make your player accessible I’ll change my rating and I’ll subscribe I will actually go ahead and change it up to three stars This is a really great app. I love it I love listening to movies but I’m asking if you can make your player accessible because I can’t see I love listening to movies but I need it accessible with voiceover. I’m using an iPhone 12 pro max. Thank you. on iOS 16.2. and if you can do that, I will give you a five star rating.
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Response from developer
We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this with you and your Voiceover app. Please visit us online at help.showtime.com where you will find contact options for Customer Care. We want to help!
Good for a few months, solid app
Good enough to pay for because of Dexter, Dexter: New Blood (for me), but once I'm done with those, they really need to add some more original content. The app also feels just a tiny bit outdated and the buttons lag, barely (but noticeable enough) at times. My biggest pet peeve is that the downloads take absolutely FOREVER - even on a great wifi network. I don't think I'd be willing to pay the price (once I've seen the Showtime originals) that the app commands for what you get on here.
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A ranked contender of top 3 streaming service’s
Phenomenal content, great app performance and wide selection. Not much more you can possibly ask or hope for. If they ever did potentially aspire to gain the championship throne and overtake arguably either HBO or Netflix, than in this very credible reviewers opinion they should invest less in the startups with particular emphasis on the cultural push that their making and more emphasis on their proven winners and particularly the numerous amazing series they’ve got only a single season of. My own strong advice would be more crime documentaries like ‘Active Shooter’ since lord knows there’s enough weekly for at least 10 seasons and ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ to name a couple. Make no mistake, they’ve hit solid gold with the Kevin Bacon series and a few more that everyone knows. I wasn’t a fan at all of killing off Micheal C Hall in New Blood! What a blunder that was who’s ever idea that belongs too.
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Response from developer
We appreciate your interest in SHOWTIME and your suggestions to improve the SHOWTIME app. Your comments have been forwarded internally for consideration. Thank you for watching SHOWTIME!
SHOWLESS
This is by far one of the worst streaming apps EVER. Poorly designed. Same tired content. Same docs. Same movies. Nothing new and if it is new it’s one show! Too much about boxing. Docs are limited. Dated. Nothing decent at all. But the biggest issue is the loooong annoying movie description and NO TRAILER to anything. Seriously???? I have to go to YT, find the trailer then come back to the app. Come on!!! Just lazy. Check out Tubi. Now that is how you do things. Plenty of content. Great choices. Movies from all decades and TRAILERS in the app. Yes they have ads but the app is FREE!!! They have so much more content that it’s worth the 2m ad. How is this not happening with Showtime? Absolute waste of money and time. Your ONLY redeeming quality is the ability to download but this is not quite accurate either. You still have to be on WiFi. Ugh!!! Just awful. This app is worth maybe .25 cent a month…maybe. 🙄Your latest update was a new thumbnail. Woohoo!
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Response from developer
We appreciate your interest in SHOWTIME and your suggestion to improve the SHOWTIME app. Your comments have been forwarded internally for consideration when making app enhancements in the future. Thank you for watching SHOWTIME!
