Playon app review9/24/2023 ![]() Amazon's hierarchical menu display via PlayOn Home is buggy and often returns no results as you dig down through menus for different services you subscribe to through Amazon Prime (ie. There is no easy way to distinguish where that content is coming from when using the search box on Home. Peacock also occasionally logs you out behind the scenes apparently.Īmazon Channels is problematic with Home because of the presence of services like imdb video, which often has ad-supported content in its library on Amazon Prime that duplicates content found on other services. ![]() I've found most of the time seeing a whole slew of failed recordings in your list means the streaming service you used stopped allowing recordings because you were logged out or at least not able to access the content servers and won't even show a content list until you log out and log back in again using the PlayOn control panel. I don't notice this from the Cloud service.įailed recordings and dropping out of a stream early are much more common with Home than Cloud. These typically show up as screen freezes that suddenly speed forward to catch-up, buffering pauses, short bursts of black screen, and in a few instances with HBO Max, PlayOn recording 15 seconds of a frozen screen that restarted playback only to freeze again every few minutes. If you task your computer a lot, such as moving files around on your network or doing any CPU-intensive things, you risk a lot of glitches in your recordings. Netflix and Amazon seem to handle this more elegantly and less intrusively. HBO Max, for example, briefly stutters during the first 5 seconds of playback as it switches to a higher bitrate. Some observations specific to Home: Some services are better than others at dynamically adjusting video streaming quality than others. On a less capable machine, you won't be able to reasonably record at a higher quality, and even on a decent machine, if you are doing a lot on your computer while recording, glitches start to turn up in your recordings that were never an issue with Cloud. What I forgot is that the quality of PlayOn Home is really dependent on you having a very capable computer that you can avoid using very much while PlayOn is recording. PlayOn Home looked at first glance like a way to avoid incurring the per-recording fees that Cloud charges, and could be a way to grab shows that were of minor interest, but not worth paying 10c on up for each one. I have been an enthusiastic user of PlayOn Cloud for a few years now and have probably managed over 2,000 recordings through that service, with about a 1-2% failure rate where something went wrong or the recording suffered some sort of issue. ![]()
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