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Apple Releases tvOS 10.1 With New TV App
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yea i really dont get it. Right now its just like a short cut for me to pick up on episodes ive already started watching....who cares.
Can you describe the bugs that you've experienced with your ATV4?
Both my ATV4s are unstable. At least once per day, one of GUI of the main streaming apps I use (Infuse, Plex, or MrMC) will freeze and won't respond to to any remote input except for the home button. Once that happens, the rest of the ATV becomes unstable and requires a reboot to get the apps working properly again.
Well I'm hoping once you watch an episode it will show you when a new one becomes available, automatically, after that.
Additionally, I thought Netflix was not included... But it's listed along with other sources.
Incredibly goofy old-media awkwardness. But apparently due to licensing, HBO Go is the companion to a cable subscription, HBO Now is a purely digital subscription.
Eventually all these channels are going to give up on the weird "lite" versions like WATCH ESPN and Fox Now
Netflix on ATV 3 is not an app. So it was limited to Apple's UI. Netflix on ATV 4 will be the same experience as other devices as it's an actual app that they can update.
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Netflix doesn't support any "universal" content discovery. They believe their own to be superior to anyone else.
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Time Warner? Do you mean Time Warner Cable now called Spectrum?
Ahh, okay. I have HBO Now, wondered if I was missing anything by not having HBO Go or if they were different.
Maybe it is, but there are a lot of threads with people with the same exact problems with it.
One thing I noticed about the restarts and bugs, it seems to depend on what apps you use and the frequency of use with those apps.
That said, the problems with the ATV4 are not nearly as bad as they were at launch.
This had a ton of potential. I was hoping that DirecTV Now would integrate with the service, putting the shows themselves front and center and getting rid of their cluttered interface (which focuses on channels or networks). I was also hoping that other third-party apps like CBS, The CW, ABC, and Fox would integrate with this app, allowing the free content they offer to be displayed through the app.
However, so far after testing, most of them do NOT integrate with the new TV app without having a traditional, paying cable subscription, even though all of these third-party apps offer all of their premium shows eight days after air for free (with commercials) in the apps themselves...
Hulu and The CW appear to be some of the only services that integrate with it now, which is next to useless since I cancelled my Hulu subscription in favor of DirecTV Now.
So if you don't have a traditional cable subscription (which excludes DirecTV Now) and you also don't have Hulu - this new TV app is next to useless for you.
Sad. What a huge missed opportunity. Neither Apple nor DirecTV can't seem to get it quite right. I want DirecTV Now's content offerings using Apple's interface that puts the shows front and center instead of the networks. I also want integrated access to local channels through third-party apps. Lastly, I wish DirecTV Now what extend its 72 hour rewind featured to be a week and make it available across all networks and all channels.
However, so far after testing, most of them do NOT integrate with the new TV app without having a traditional, paying cable subscription, even though all of these third-party apps offer all of their premium shows eight days after air for free (with commercials) in the apps themselves...
Hulu and The CW appear to be some of the only services that integrate with it now, which is next to useless since I cancelled my Hulu subscription in favor of DirecTV Now.
So if you don't have a traditional cable subscription (which excludes DirecTV Now) and you also don't have Hulu - this new TV app is next to useless for you.
Sad. What a huge missed opportunity. Neither Apple nor DirecTV can't seem to get it quite right. I want DirecTV Now's content offerings using Apple's interface that puts the shows front and center instead of the networks. I also want integrated access to local channels through third-party apps. Lastly, I wish DirecTV Now what extend its 72 hour rewind featured to be a week and make it available across all networks and all channels.
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Release notes should be here when Apple gets around to updating it:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202157
Or where is the new TV app for Mac? I bet they'll release it for the Apple Watch before the Mac.
Yeah, I don't really get it either, I tried to add all the shows I watch, some from Hulu, some from CBS, some from Netflix, etc. and its nice to have them all in one place, but they're all on season 1 episode 1. Don't see a way to get it to jump to where I'm actually at in anything, and to set what service to stream it through.
The TV app is hot garbage. It's nearly worthless and Apple implemented it as another app instead of integrating it into tvOS. Like I really want to open another app to find what's playing in another app and then have to open the other app to watch what I want. Another Tim Cook innovation.
Damn bring back the Home button.. dont like going into the TV app that way. crap..
And you can't edit it any way..
edit: i found a way to edit it.. go into Remotes and Devices - Home Button.
Much better now..
And you can't edit it any way..
edit: i found a way to edit it.. go into Remotes and Devices - Home Button.
Much better now..
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Thoughts from looking through the app:
1) Is it just me or is it way too cluttered, its information overload and 99% of it is **** I don't care about
2) Even though its integrated with several of my apps, I don't see anywhere the shows I've already been watching
This app is a disappointment to me, it doesn't seem to add any real value.
And I want a channel guide like your normal TV guide to show all available / scheduled streaming feeds.
Apple is getting really good at failure....
1) Is it just me or is it way too cluttered, its information overload and 99% of it is **** I don't care about
2) Even though its integrated with several of my apps, I don't see anywhere the shows I've already been watching
This app is a disappointment to me, it doesn't seem to add any real value.
And I want a channel guide like your normal TV guide to show all available / scheduled streaming feeds.
Apple is getting really good at failure....
It's actually not quite working with all DirecTV accounts yet (like mine). According to some posters on the Apple support site, some merged UVerse/DirecTV accounts don't work yet, since AT&T doesn't quite have them flagged correctly as DirecTV accounts (from the AppleTV point-of-view). So the log in attempt fails.
Is the TV app US only? It did appear on my phone in one of the betas, but has gone again now. And no sign of it on ATV.
Right! I forget how the new OS works.
Either way the Netflix experience sucks. Just wish there was an A to Z of shows I could browse and watch. It's impossible to find what you want most nights!
Except on Roku, Android TV, and TiVo where Netflix is included in each platform's universal search and discovery.
Don't feel bad, it's even limited for US users with the biggest companies such as Comcast not being on-board...
I was excited about single sign-on, until I saw that Comcast/TWC aren't supported. That leaves out around three quarters of the market, and helps mostly sat TV subscribers. Bleah.
Funny... last I heard Netflix CEO said he doesn't like universal content discovery. He rather their own way of doing things. On those you mentioned.... do they also push content discovery or is it just universal watchlist? The two are very different.
A watchlist just shows your progress. Universal discovery like on toOS TV app pushes its own content discovery that is separate from what the individual streaming providers do themselves.
was wondering the same thing. . . just got our Apple TV today in the mail after pre-paying 3 months of directv now. . . also, does directv now work w this new tv app?
Whoa! I'm really unimpressed. I had it in my head that it would work with purchased product in iTunes and would organise my unwatched TV eps I've purchased etc but it doesn't work with iTunes purchases which im shocked by.
So far the best way I think to manage media is by streaming from the comp and using unwatched sections in movies and TV .
So far the best way I think to manage media is by streaming from the comp and using unwatched sections in movies and TV .