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HBO Max is almost unusable. It is so slow and buggy that on some days we literally could not watch something we wanted. The interface is also atrocious. Netfli
by 7thaccount 5y ago
HBO Max is almost unusable. It is so slow and buggy that on some days we literally could not watch something we wanted. The interface is also atrocious.
Netflix is good. Amazon Prime is pretty good. HBO Max is terrible. Hulu is kinda crappy. Paramount plus is okay (only use it for Star Trek).
- handrous 5y agoWeird, must be platform-specific. HBO and Hulu are fine on Roku. In fact, after subscribing to a bunch more services than I used to (I was Netflix-only for a really long time) I'm probably going to cancel all but those two, because the UIs are pretty good (Amazon's lost me purely over their UI) and their selection crushes everyone else (for my tastes, anyway—these days I'd rank Netflix under Kanopy, which is free, in terms of which service I'd most want to keep).
- 7thaccount 5y agoI see my issues on both Roku and through a separate smart TV, so I'm not convinced that is it.
- handrous 5y agoGuess I got lucky. I know there's some variability in performance of Roku devices, which can extend to stability of applications. I've got two nearly-identical but different-brand TVs with embedded Rokus, and the older TCL one is rock solid and snappy, but the newer one (Hisense brand) is laggy and everything crashes frequently on it.
- Terretta 5y agoNow that CBS ceded to Paramount Plus app, Paramount forgets to update Monday week day late night shows before Tuesday morning. Tuesday shows work on Wed AM, Wed shows on Thu AM, and so on, but not Monday shows on Tue AM. This was all fine until Paramount opted out of some of the aggregated UI APIs.