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Using the Prime video app on my Android TV it seems like some basics aren't really attended to. The aspect ratio on the thumbnail for film I watched was stretc
by stuaxo 6y ago
Using the Prime video app on my Android TV it seems like some basics aren't really attended to.
The aspect ratio on the thumbnail for film I watched was stretched the other day, which is not the lack of attention to detail I'd expect from such a rich company.
Apart from this, it just isn't a smooth experience to navigate or search in. As usual in development nobody is paying any attention to responsiveness.
There is no reason this app shouldn't work as well as the youtube app in these respects.
- benbristow 6y agoAmazon products are never polished or fully fleshed out. You can spend a few minutes on their flagship site and find weird design choices or basic CSS mistakes. A shame considering the amount of money they have. You'd expect a bit more, but then again Amazon are in the business of scale, quantity over quality. At least it keeps them from having a monopoly on literally everything.
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoUptime of essentially 100%. Hard to criticize when they accomplished something so rare in tech.
- benbristow 6y agoJust because something is up doesn’t mean it’s good. There’s an innuendo in there somewhere...
- 1DRACOSEA8 6y agoI see what you did there, Karen.
- SEJeff 6y agolaughs in us-east-1
- scarmig 6y agous-east-1 is part of the suite of chaos engineering tools AWS offers.
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoThe whole point is to use multiple Availability Zones across Regions, to protect your uptime from failures in single AZs or entire Regions. Amazon.com does that.
- SEJeff 6y agoAnd yet, even companies like pager duty, who have “one job” and hire many competent engineers, still struggle with this: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/outage-post-mortem-june-14/ https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/outage-post-mortem-june-14/ Note that pager duty now weathers Amazon outages beautifully, but the point is that amazon doesn’t have 100% uptime and that properly designing distributed systems is very hard.
- thewhitetulip 6y agoAlso video quality is auto selected, they don't have an option at all to change the quality! Why would anyone do that?
- osswannabe 6y agoThis is something Netflix has been doing for a while. I think it's called adaptive bitrate streaming - the video quality automatically adapts to your network connection.
- thewhitetulip 6y agoI was fine with netflix because I had a cheap HD only plan. Prime Video has 4k videos and nobody else can use wifi if I play an Amazon Original and they forcefully opens in 4k and I take up all the bandwidth
- jjeaff 6y agoA frustrating work around. But a good router like from ubiquiti should have qos options to throttle your streams or a single computer on the network from hogging the bandwidth.