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Netflix seems to have the best tech, at least from a user perspective in Mexico. On my LG tv their app is the best, by far. I wish all the other services just
by pier25 6y ago
Netflix seems to have the best tech, at least from a user perspective in Mexico.
On my LG tv their app is the best, by far. I wish all the other services just served their content through Netflix. All new content has 4K HDR with Dolby vision/atmos and streaming is quite fast on my 200 Mbps fiber connection.
HBO Go is pure garbage. The app is clunky and has way worse UX than Netflix. The streaming quality is absolute crap. There's banding everywhere and the image seems to pause for a frame or two every second or so. This is extremely annoying when the camera pans. Game of Thrones doesn't even have 5.1 sound. No English subs (for those shows where sound is not so great). Last time I checked there was no 4K HDR.
The Amazon Prime app has better UX than HBO Go and has much better streaming quality, but the experience is still quite mediocre. The whole UI seems from 10 years ago. When you're binging a show they always insert ads in between episodes and the app forces you to skip recaps and the show intro every time. The quality of the streaming degrades quite often for a couple of seconds. Also, no English subs. They also have an HBO channel but it suffers from the same quality issues as HBO Go.
I haven't tried Apple+ and Disney is not available yet.
- spyspy 6y agoDon't get your hopes up about Disney+
- devmunchies 6y agoYes I have bad internet at my house and I can tell which app has better engineering (buffering, local storage optimization, video definition downgrading/upgrading based on throughput, etc.) Netflix works great with a slow or intermittent connection, they've clearly optimized it. My rank for engineering quality (not UX) are: (1) Netflix, (2) Amazon Prime, (3) Disney+, (4) HBO Go (I get a stop-the-world spinning icon every minute at times) HBO Go is so bad that I have to get out a mobile device and "save offline" and cast it to the TV just to watch something. (I don't use Hulu.)
- thu2111 6y agoApple TV device UI is pretty great as you'd expect, but the core tech is buggy - sometimes video will just stop playing for no apparent reason, or the audio system will die and you'll have to reboot the device. Apple TV app on macOS Catalina is a disaster zone. iTunes was pretty bad but the new app manages to be just as confusing, with fewer features, and worse of all it crashes immediately and reliably if you do something totally unexpected, like plugging your laptop into a TV via HDMI. Ridiculous.
- pier25 6y ago> Apple TV device UI is pretty great as you'd expect, but the core tech is buggy I never owned an Apple TV but my 1st gen Nvidia Shield TV was super solid. I only stopped using it because it didn't support Dolby Vision and the apps I use are on my LG tv anyway.