Ralph-Axel M.
Youtube TV works in mysterious ways
Youtube TV is of astoundingly poor design in many regards. I switched from DirectTV hoping to save some money. A minor complaint with YTTV is that its operations are unpredictable. For example, it will often allow you to resume watching a show where you left off, but then it equally often won’t for intractable reasons. One rather moronic feature is that YTTV will start playing something it thinks you might want to watch while you are selecting what you really want to watch. That’s way more than a nuisance when you want to watch a sports game that has already ended and YTTV presents you with the final result before you can even start watching. The concept of spoilers and the notion that these are to be avoided may be foreign to the designers of YTTV. But even when this annoying background feature is not at issue, spoilers are a specialty of YTTV. What happened to me multiple times (unpredictably as usual) is that when stopping to watch a game midway through and then resuming at a later time, YTTV may proudly present you with the final result. No need to highlight that this is about the worst you can do to a sports fan. Watching YTTV on a laptop (Mac OS12 in my case), is an obstacle race. Selecting a DVR recording will sometimes simply not work, something different will instead be presented. Switching to full screen view requires patience, multiple clicks on the edge of the screen and hope (or prayer for the religiously minded). YTTV will furthermore often tell you that you are not where you actually are, but someplace else – and prevent you from accessing, for example, local channels. On a laptop, these issues can be surprisingly lengthy to fix. One final note regarding buffering. As other functions in YTTV, it appears haphazard. I have been streaming Netflix and Max for a long time on a Roku TV, with no problem ever. YTTV on the other hand, even with internet speeds around 300Mbs will be moody and occasionally get into a stuttering mode that requires stopping and waiting.