Comporium Stream TV

“Stream” is a stretch. You can’t watch most anything unless in your home. Mostly all channels don’t work, you can watch recorded shows / movies but storage for those is REALLY low. Not worth having on phone / tablet.

By far the absolute worst streaming app on my devices. Fast forwarding or rewinding always results in at least a full minute of blurry playback. The best thing this app does is buffer. It will randomly restart a show from the beginning, scrolling in the guide is nearly impossible and most of the time I’m watching poor quality playback or the activity indicator. To top things off this when watching a recording of a game, the app will randomly flash the current screen when you try and fast forward through commercials. I’m cancelling my service because of this app, it’s unusable. I wouldn’t use this app if Comporium’s service was free.

This app is a terrible replacement for the cable box. On the Apple TV you have to scroll through all the channels every time you want to go to a channel that isn’t in the recents. If the app updates or the device restarts you lose the recents. Being able to flag channels as favorites and use them instead of recents would be a better option. When I turn it on I get the message content is no longer available. I don’t want to watch the show I was watching 5 hours ago. I want to go to live tv when I turn it on instead I have to acknowledge the message before I can start watching. Being able to set the default power on action (view live tv or resume previous show) would be nice. With the most recent update instead of going to the channel that I select from the guide it now takes me to the shows info page. I want to go to the channel I select, not the shows info page. It feels like they are trying to unsuccessfully combine Live TV and a Netflix like experience. Guide should be for a TV like experience and Home/Shows/Movies for the Netflix like experience. Put an option in the top menu for Show Details that then takes me to the shows info page. Also adding an on screen clock would be nice. Again, something that could be added to the top menu or always on screen when any menu is activated. Every update seems to make the overall app’s functionality worse. I don’t know if there is a way to suggest features or if they are listening to any of the feedback but right now Stream TV is a inadequate replacement for the cable box.