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Their app gives a vastly different experience on different platforms. On a smart tv, its a dumpster fire. Slow, laggy, horrible play delay. On Amazon brande
by drewg123 5y ago
Their app gives a vastly different experience on different platforms. On a smart tv, its a dumpster fire. Slow, laggy, horrible play delay. On Amazon branded Fire* devices, its far better. And I love the X-Ray feature -- that's something I wish Netflix had.
- brundolf 5y agoGotcha. I've never owned a Fire device. My primary experience with both services was when I wanted to watch Game of Thrones a couple years ago. My girlfriend had already bought it on Amazon so I used that app on our smart TV for the first season or two. Every single interaction (even moving the menu cursor) took 1-3 seconds to register. It was miserable. I ended up subscribing to HBO and buying a PS4 media remote just so that I could stop using Amazon Video.
- drewg123 5y agoI had the same experience on a ~2011 smart TV. I was shocked when I subscribed to Netflix, and their app actually worked fine on that TV. Responsive, low play delay, etc.
- lsaferite 5y agoX-Ray is a killer feature. I was just telling my wife how much I wished other platforms had it. We stop shows ALL THE TIME to go look up actors and such. X-Ray makes that just a pause operation. I wonder if there's some patent that's preventing other providers from having the same feature.