AMC: Stream TV Shows & Movies

If you want to spend more time watching ads than your content you are watching with your tv provider, than this may be the an app you’re looking for. It feels like a data miner the way they put 7 sections of ads for a 40 minute episode. Each section had 8-9 individual ads that last 20-40 seconds each. It’s literally impossible to watch programs And don’t get me started if you lose your spot. Trying to fast scroll to a previous spot in an episode ignites an automatic 9 ads everytime you move even 10 seconds forward are back. And there’s no scrubbing thumbnails so unless you know an exact time, you will have to rewatch a whole episode before you find your previous place. There are also glaring issues such as a locked rotation about half of the time where your program will only display one way on your device. This is not made for your phone and it is not accessible for phone users. Great programs on the app, all of my issues are in the actual function of the app and the CONSTANT ADS

Anyone who’s ever watched the AMC channel has probably noticed they have more commercial breaks than any other station. Like they showed Moneyball a while back.. the film itself is 2 hours 13 mins. The time slot they gave it was over 3 hours long. That’s more than 45 minutes worth of commercials. Well the app is no different. Every 4-7 minutes, you get another 2.5-3 minutes worth of commercials. AND THEY WILL SHOW THE SAME EXACT COMMERCIAL 3 OR 4 TIMES IN A ROW. While watching the second episode of Gangs of London, the first 5 commercial breaks played this mind-numbingly stupid AT&T commercial 4 times in a row each break. It was the one with their spokeswoman “Lily” using a whiteboard that’s set up to look like she’s drawing out a play in basketball to explain their deals to two customers... Oh, and if you try to use the button that rewinds 15 seconds in case you missed something, it sends you directly into another full commercial break. So I’d pay CLOSE attention to what you’re watching unless you want another 3 minutes of McDonald’s and AT&T ads... those are their two biggest sponsors at the moment. And by the way, do the writers of that commercial really believe that by alluding to basketball and having a few basketballs in the shot that they’re “appealing” to fans of the sport? The writers must be just as dumb as the so-called “humor” they stick into every last commercial.

I use the AMC app on my Apple Tv 4 (ATv4). Actually, the word “use” is a bit deceptive since the app is nearly always unusable. Each time I try to watch an episode of FTWD it will either randomly skip like 5+ minutes ahead of where I’m currently at in the episode or revert back to the first few minutes of the episode. When this happens it also screws up the audio. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling the app etc. No other app on my ATv4 has these issues. They all work perfectly. I’m going to try using the app on my phone and just screen mirror or airplay to my ATv4. If that doesn’t work, I’m going to delete the app. I’ve read of others having these same exact issues with the AMC app on their Apple TVs and Rokus. Some of these complaints are nearly a year older than the one I’m writing now. It’s rather astounding that this issue has been voiced by many others so long ago and yet the issue is still not fixed. One would think the goal of any app developer would be to create a reliable app that performs as advertised so that more consumers will be inclined to use the app that the developer went through the trouble to create. I’m genuinely interested as to how this hasn’t been fixed by now and why such incompetence is tolerated in a corporate setting where the sole goal is to make as much money as possible by creating the best and most reliable app possible to motivate increased usage by consumers. But perhaps I’m being too harsh by expecting something to work as intended and advertised.