Hi folks,
While I'm a big fan of the VUDU service in general, even going so far as to pay to convert almost 100 DVDs and BDs into digital copies and re-purchasing two seasons of Game of Thrones (1 and 2) to go along with the copy of season 3 I already owned for this service so that I had them all available from one single digital video service, I have to say that I'm extremely frustrated with my VUDU experience in my living room when I try to enjoy VUDU on my Xbox One.
When it works, I love it, but far too often I have videos that won't play, or if/when they do play, they drop out before I can even finish a TV episode, let alone a movie, and typically once this happens the service fails to work at all until I abandon trying to use it and come back later to attempt it again.
I have a fiber optic ISP, 30mbps down / 15 mbps up , and my Xbox One is connected to my router via Ethernet cable, and yet still these constant errors plague me with VUDU. Even when other services on Xbox One (such as Netflix or YouTube) are not experiencing issues. This is very, very frustrating! It makes me feel like I set my money on fire (~$120-$150 to this point) for how rarely this service works properly when I attempt to use it in my living room.
I want to believe that I made the right choice with VUDU, and it tends to work better on my PC, iPhone, and iPad (though they still sometimes have issues too), but my experiences with it on Xbox One have been pretty darn rough!
And sadly, that's how I feel regardless of the other serious issue here: The Xbox One VUDU app's navigation.
It's... pretty terrible. I'm very pleased with how I can browse my collection on VUDU's website; it's a nice grid of tiles, I can sort it by purchase date, titles, ratings, etc., it's great. Contrast that with the Xbox One VUDU app, where you get one row of tiles, the movies cannot be sorted, and each screen only displays a handful of titles at a time. Super slow and annoying to have to be dealing with these limitations! Especially with 100 movies in my collection.
Lastly, speaking of Game of Thrones, browsing TV seasons is a pain as well. Once you've selected a season of a show, you can't see all episodes without having to click on another tile to go to it, and then if the season has any bonus feature videos, they're all clumped up front as 'episode 0' episodes, getting in the way when all you want to do is choice from the actual episodes of the show. It's a mess, and it's clunky, and it takes longer than it ought to.
This is just not acceptable, guys/gals! I've put a lot of my money into this service, I love what it's trying to be/do, but these things need to change, and fast, because I feel ripped off right now.
Disappointed and frustrated,
- Mark
While I'm a big fan of the VUDU service in general, even going so far as to pay to convert almost 100 DVDs and BDs into digital copies and re-purchasing two seasons of Game of Thrones (1 and 2) to go along with the copy of season 3 I already owned for this service so that I had them all available from one single digital video service, I have to say that I'm extremely frustrated with my VUDU experience in my living room when I try to enjoy VUDU on my Xbox One.
When it works, I love it, but far too often I have videos that won't play, or if/when they do play, they drop out before I can even finish a TV episode, let alone a movie, and typically once this happens the service fails to work at all until I abandon trying to use it and come back later to attempt it again.
I have a fiber optic ISP, 30mbps down / 15 mbps up , and my Xbox One is connected to my router via Ethernet cable, and yet still these constant errors plague me with VUDU. Even when other services on Xbox One (such as Netflix or YouTube) are not experiencing issues. This is very, very frustrating! It makes me feel like I set my money on fire (~$120-$150 to this point) for how rarely this service works properly when I attempt to use it in my living room.
I want to believe that I made the right choice with VUDU, and it tends to work better on my PC, iPhone, and iPad (though they still sometimes have issues too), but my experiences with it on Xbox One have been pretty darn rough!
And sadly, that's how I feel regardless of the other serious issue here: The Xbox One VUDU app's navigation.
It's... pretty terrible. I'm very pleased with how I can browse my collection on VUDU's website; it's a nice grid of tiles, I can sort it by purchase date, titles, ratings, etc., it's great. Contrast that with the Xbox One VUDU app, where you get one row of tiles, the movies cannot be sorted, and each screen only displays a handful of titles at a time. Super slow and annoying to have to be dealing with these limitations! Especially with 100 movies in my collection.
Lastly, speaking of Game of Thrones, browsing TV seasons is a pain as well. Once you've selected a season of a show, you can't see all episodes without having to click on another tile to go to it, and then if the season has any bonus feature videos, they're all clumped up front as 'episode 0' episodes, getting in the way when all you want to do is choice from the actual episodes of the show. It's a mess, and it's clunky, and it takes longer than it ought to.
This is just not acceptable, guys/gals! I've put a lot of my money into this service, I love what it's trying to be/do, but these things need to change, and fast, because I feel ripped off right now.
Disappointed and frustrated,
- Mark
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