Good idea, bad execution
Very buggy when used on iPad or iPhone with Chromecast device. With Chromecast it will lock up when commercials are inserted, if I switch to another app then come back to Youtube TV, and at several other random times. When that happens you need to manually close the app, restart the app, disconnect from Chromecast (because strangely, sometimes the show keeps streaming to your Chromecast even after you’ve shut down the app), close the app again, restart the app again, connect to Chromecast, then finally pick up where you left off. At best when using Chromecast, you’ll be able to watch two shows in a row before this happens again. On the iPad or iPhone directly it doesn’t seem to lock up as much but it’s still kludgy. Needs a way to smoothly fast forward or rewind in addition to the 10 or 15 second jumps back and forth. The go-to-start and go-to-end buttons are too close to the 15 second back and forth buttons. Sometimes you’ll be trying to skip an ad and instead you jump to the end. Then you need to hunt for where you were because there is no smooth way to fast forward or rewind. Maybe someone at Google should buy an old VCR, study the remote and implement the interface in this app? Better still, buy Rovi to get the TiVo brand and interface and implement that!
I’ve been using for 5 months now and if the bugs don’t go away, as much as it will kill me, I might have to go back to Comcast. (Cringing at the thought).
DJ_Don about
YouTube TV, v1.10.8