'It's hot garbage now' complain Amazon Fire TV owners after controversial changes and warn 'they're going downhill fast' | HW2VV1S | 2024-02-20 15:08:01
Clients have flocked to Reddit to complain concerning the quality of their Am
AMAZON Hearth TV house owners are vowing to ditch their gadgets after controversial modifications to the app.
Clients have flocked to Reddit to complain concerning the quality of their Amazon Hearth TVs and Sticks.
The gadgets promise a better TV experience, but some house owners are sad with how properly the units perform recently – or how straightforward it's to seek out content.
In a Reddit thread with dozens of upvotes, a poster wrote: "What occurred to Hearth TV? I just purchased a brand new one, so it' s not that.
"It's a must to scroll by means of layers upon layers to get to what you need to watch, you'll be able to't escape the previews, it's sluggish, it kicks itself out of the present or doesn't go there at all."
A separate consumer replying in the feedback added: "I used to advocate them however not anymore. It's scorching rubbish now."
Another stated: "Funny you point out that. I'm in the strategy of eradicating all Amazon units (Hearth TV and Echo) from my ecosystem. Trust is gone!"
And one famous: "Yeah they're going downhill fast. I left the ecosystem a number of months again"
A unique consumer stated that they'd swapped their Hearth TV units for an Apple TV.
They wrote: "Yes it's costlier however after having Hearth Sticks on all my tvs for years I'm slowly phasing them out.
"It was the very best determination I've ever made. Set it so it opens to the House Display (as an alternative of the default Apple TV+ app) and you have zero muddle or nonsense.
"Just the apps that you simply use. No sluggish and clunky navigation and no bulls***."
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> The complaints come despite a current Amazon Hearth TV ad posted to YouTube that guarantees users can "scroll less, watch extra".
One consumer advised a solution of turning autoplay videos off as a approach to ease a few of the drawback.
Just go into Settings > Preferences > Featured Content material then search for Permit Audio Autoplay and Permit Video Autoplay.
Set each of these to off and that should scale back a lot of the autoplay issues that you simply may experience.
One replied: "Will get away from bed so I don't overlook to do that", whereas one other simply added: "THIS."
Nevertheless it wasn't sufficient for the unique poster who wrote that they'd already tried it: "Yeah I did this, however thanks for the suggestion."
Another stated: "I did it too, however some things still autoplay."
BAD ADS
Amazon has been under fire lately for the addition of advertisements to its streaming service.
Final yr, Amazon introduced that it might start displaying "restricted advertisements" on Prime Video.
And the change went reside on January 29 this yr, affecting paying users of the service.
If subscribers need to take away advertisements, they should pay an additional $2.99 on prime of their present subscription.
However Amazon noted: ""We goal to have meaningfully fewer advertisements than linear TV and different streaming TV providers."
Amazon Video subscribers have since revealed that they've cancelled their memberships outright.
One consumer in the Reddit thread stated that they'd ditched their bedroom Hearth TV and began utilizing an Xbox as an alternative: "As a bonus, every little thing masses WAY quicker.
"I'd a lot somewhat simply use my hearth TV, but I completely hate advertisements and pay for an ad free experience on actually the whole lot I subscribe to."
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