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Apple TV @lemmy.world dodeca @lemmy.world The Apple TV experience sucks. Is it me?
I'm not complaining about the content, I'm upset with the experience. It has the worst user experience I've ever used with a streaming service, and I have Hulu with ads. FWIW we're watching on a Samsung TV that's a couple years old.
My wife and I have had Apple TV off and on since it came out and we always quit watching it and cancel. It's a bad, frustrating chore to use so we avoid it. This time we got it because it's included with our new phone plan, but we quickly remembered why we don't watch anything on it.
Apple TV doesn't remember where we were in an episode. If we stop watching and come back to the episode it starts from the beginning. If we pause the video and wait too long it jumps back to the menu and we lose where we were. If we stop watching at any point, hopefully we remember where we were when we start watching again because we have to fast forward to it.
If we pause the video too many times it becomes unwatchable. It plays back in this amazingly weird jump back, jump