My main complaint is that there isn’t a consistent experience between apps. Things are in different places, actions do different things in different apps, no gesture support, subpar players with horrible scrubbing, etc.

I think all apps should be held to a few basic UI/UX standards so going from one app to another isn’t a completely different experience.

The attached photo is just one example. Within the Apple TV app itself, long pressing an icon brings up this great menu allowing you to go straight to the show or the episode page. Long pressing in most other apps removes the show from your now playing list! All of these conflicting actions need to be rectified.

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    I think yes, to a point. Certain standards like button placements and navigations should be standardized. Some functionality, like holding down the select button for more options, should also be enforced.

    That being said, I don’t think all streaming service UIs need to look exactly the same.

    I do think that Apple should tighten down their update checks. Sometimes they let an app update through that breaks HDR or Atmos and it would be great if they tested these things more thoroughly.

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    Hard agree. Having to relearn the controls for different streaming services is annoying and not necessary.

    There are video players that only let you fast forward or rewind at variable speeds, like a frickin’ VHS player! Looking at you, Twitch.

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    I feel like they should. But only if Apple TV 4K box is in a better market share than it is now.

    I feel like if they did that, they’d risk an exodus from the streamers to pull out of the platform, or one of the big ones withholding support for the app because of such a sweeping change in their TV apps.

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    Would love them to, especially when you look at apps like prime video, YouTube and YouTube tv, who insist on using their own players, that are not as good of an experience.

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      1 year ago

      Besides, if you leave or turn off the atv with a video from YouTube onscreen, it will cockblock whatever you try to airplay later. That’s super annoying

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      The apps you’ve mentioned are simple web wrappers that display HTML5 content. If you go to youtube.com/tv you’ll get the exact same web page that these streaming apps display. They do this because it’s cheaper to maintain and you get the the exact same experience on every device. Not playing the devil’s advocate here, just explaining why these apps are so bad and why I don’t think this is going to change. In fact, Google did provide native apps on some plattforms and later replaced them with their low-quality HTML5 apps.

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      1 year ago

      Any attempt to force the use of Apple’s player would return the Apple TV to “pretty much useless” status when it comes to Plex. So, personally, I really don’t want to see that.

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          I can’t sacrifice the Plex UI and features. It was a harder choice when Apple TV’s Plex app transcoded everything but now it hardly ever does so Infuse holds no real benefit for me.

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            so Infuse holds no real benefit for me.

            The tvOS Plex app currently has a massive stack of issues, including a critical one that overheats the third gen Apple TV 4K with high bitrate 4K remuxes to the point that it chokes on them and stop playing (I´m not joking!).

            Infuse does not overheat it because it uses the Apple TV hardware acceleration for every aspect of their custom player (Metal), whereas Plex still uses Open GL for quite a lot.

            My recommendation at this point is to use Infuse instead. Yeah, its not free, but it uses the Apple TV hardware and feature set to its full potential, and performs so much better.

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              1 year ago

              Never ben an issue for me, and Infuse is far too ugly and lacking features for me to use it.

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      1 year ago

      Dolby Digital on YouTube flashes black for a full second everytime I load a video or ad, it’s so infuriating

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        Change your AppleTV to 4k sdr, with matching on, and it won’t do that anymore. You’ll get a quick black flash when loading Dolby or hdr content, but there’s way more sdr content out there.