Getting ready to cancel YouTubeTV.
I didn't get it to replace cable - more like an expensive trial run to see football games in the event we were unable to watch by other means.
And it did come through.
My complaint however about it - and I suspect similar features for other streaming services - is the interface.
For one - it's painfully slow. From what I can see, they are all that way - every streaming service has an interface that is very slow, and as they
push to create more and more "features" - it gets worse. So far, nothing can compete with the speed of a cable company interface that allows
me to pop through channels, switch, search and watch previously saved content.
For at least another - and I notice this on YouTubeTV but similar situations on other ones - you can't scroll quickly, or loop through options (sometimes on others - pretty sure if you waste time cycling all the way through a category on Netflix, by the time you get to film or show 100 it will go back to the beginning). Some of them won't, because the options aren't HUGE. Disney Plus, for example.
Another is, the interface isn't - logical. This is especially bad on Amazon Prime, where you just have no idea what order those categories will be in, and they routinely mix pay options in with the "free" ones. Yes, I know there's a button to screen it out, but it doesn't always STAY "pushed".
Oddly enough - I DO like the Roku interface, unless I have a LOT of channels and have to organize the ones I use a lot. But the latency of a slow Internet connection means, not only do I have to wait for shows to keep buffering - sometimes I have to just wait for EVERYTHING. Searches are painfully slow. Scrolling takes forever; on demand options are slow.
Much as I hate the high cost of cable - I don't like my streaming options well enough yet.
