Don’t get it for DVR features!

If you want an app to watch channels live, this tends to work ok. But the cloud-based DVR? Garbage! Most of my experience is with the Apple TV version but the poor cloud DVR functionality persists across any version I have, from my experiences. Same on the Samsung smart tv app and same on my iPhone app. And Internet bandwidth isn’t the problem.

So, what do I mean by poor functionality?

Pause live TV: Pausing works fine. However, if you do anything (ff, rewind) but just play from that pause, you will likely run into problems. The problems range from choppy video/sound to frozen picture to an “I give up” screen where it tells you an error happened and the best they can do is give you a cryptic 16 character code and ask you to go deliver it to them!?

Recording shows to watch later: This tends to work a little better. Although I do run into similar problems at times, the most common annoyance is the lack of preview scenes when you’re skipping around. These preview windows show up sometimes but seem to be getting more and more rare, which makes movement through a recorded program tedious. Also, one more annoyance, if you select a program on a network channel like ABC to record regularly, be aware that if you have more than one ABC channel (local & national, maybe) then the app will randomly record each day from either of them. Which, for me, is frustrating. I get local news on one but not the other. No way to choose to record just the one channel apparently.

randys87 about YouTube TV, v2.03.5