From Netflix to HBO, the terrible design of streaming is ruining TV

Re:From Netflix to HBO, the terrible design of streaming is ... by garyclarke27 on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:10AM (#35872089)

YouTube has the best UI and Spotify has the worst. Watching Joe Rogan on TV is painful, if you ever want to pause it - which is quite often considering how long his podcasts are - resume does not work - you have to close the App and go back in - sometimes it doesn't remember where you were and starts from the beginning - fast forward is excruciatingly slow. Spotify should sack all developers who work on video they are totally incompetent.

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Re:From Netflix to HBO, the terrible design of streaming is ... by cout on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:24AM (#35872180)

As they say, what's old is new. A lot of these problems I remember having with VHS. Tapes would rewind too slowly, or they would rewind too fast and I would overshoot. Early IR remotes had to be aimed carefully, so pausing took a few attempts. Some remotes had a physical cord, which could come unplugged. And if a tape got jammed that means pulling it out carefully, gently rolling it back into the cartridge, and since the tape is now back at the beginning, fast forwarding to find my place again.

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Re:From Netflix to HBO, the terrible design of streaming is ... by pessimizer on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:22PM (#35877508)

Resume worked fine on VHS.

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