i got a great question on one of my
recent live streams what is my least
favorite streaming service that's a good
one and i had to think about it a little
bit so i did and that's what we're going
to talk about today what is the worst
streaming service let's dive in
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so let's dive into this one what is my
least favorite streaming service well
that is obviously a subjective question
there's no objective way to answer this
but i did want to narrow it down a
little bit right there are a lot of
streaming services out there some of
them are really good some of them are
truly terrible so what i did was i
limited it to the most popular premium
services out there so what i was left
with was nine streaming services now
four of those are pretty upper tier and
it's going to be hard to argue that any
of them would qualify to be near the
bottom of this list so netflix hbo max
disney plus and hulu they all escape
judgment here okay so those are the four
out of these nine that i would say hey
if you're gonna get any streaming
services those are probably gonna be the
ones but we're left with five others and
where do they rank number five is prime
video this one doesn't quite make the
cut as a streaming service because it's
attached to amazon prime as a whole it's
kind of a no-brainer for most people in
the us because you're just gonna get
prime anyway so you get the streaming
service to go along with it yeah it's a
nice little perk but as a streaming
service just by itself in a vacuum it's
really only
good
one thing that drives me absolutely
crazy and this is going to be a theme
with a few of these streaming services
is that off of its own hardware this
software is kind of terrible so prime
video as an app does not work nearly as
well as you would want it to on roku on
google tv on even apple tv to a certain
extent although less so there so as long
as you've got a fire tv stick or cube or
whatever and you're running prime video
the software looks okay it runs fine but
once you get off of amazon's own
equipment it slows way way down and it
looks awful i'm showing you a picture
right here that does not do the story
justice i'm pretty sure that they are
showing me a menu in 360p at best now
how big a deal is that i don't know
maybe not that big a deal because the
picture once you start playing it is
okay
but yeah the menus look truly horrific
they also have kind of a bad
recommendation algorithm as i've gone
through over the years and tried to find
things to watch so for reasons i won't
get into recently i watched predators
the 2010 adrian brodie predator
entry whatever
it's not a great movie but they give me
recommendations based on having watched
that movie and it's like jennifer's body
and apollo 13. i mean come on like
and what this tells you when the
algorithm is that bad is that they might
not actually have the library to support
a a good recommendation algorithm so
that's something to watch out for is
prime video has a ton of titles much
like netflix much like hulu but the
titles are not of the same quality that
you would get on those upper tier
services number four and working our way
down toward my least favorite streaming
service is discovery plus now when
discovery plus came out i actually quite
liked it i gave it a very positive
review and i still continue to give it a
very positive review the only problem
with it is that it's super super niche
the good news is that discovery plus has
a ton of programming on it you have up
to 20 different networks on discovery
plus and i do like the way that they lay
out their content it's really easy to
find stuff that you want to watch based
either on the cable channel that you
used to watch all the time or based on
the type of content you want to watch
you know whether it's true crime or
documentaries or what have you but
almost all of the content on discovery
plus is unscripted content so i you know
i hesitate to call it reality tv because
as we all know there's no such thing as
reality tv but it is at least unscripted
content so that's only going to appeal
to a certain number of people it doesn't
have a very wide range of content
available for you to watch and because
of that it can't really break into the
upper echelons of streaming services at
least not premium streaming services so
yeah this one is number four for me
number three just below discovery plus
is paramount plus paramount plus if you
recall is basically the reskin of cbs
all access which was an okay streaming
service for a few years then they
reskinned it added a few
originals and such and made it
maybe a little more okay than it was but
still yeah it's really just
fine they do have some original content
but most of it is middling at best there
are very few remarkable uh pieces of
original content on paramount plus i do
like that they give you access to the
live local cbs stream so whether you're
wanting to watch local news or local
sports they do let you do that which is
nice but because of their library
because of how limited it is to cbs
content and because of how unremarkable
those original shows are yeah it doesn't
even crack past discovery plus on this
ranking now as long as we're talking
about branded streaming services let's
go to peacock this is nbc's streamer and
it comes in at number two very nearly
the bottom here now again let me
reiterate that these are all good
streaming services we're just talking
about which ones are my least favorite
and yeah unfortunately peacock does come
in close to the bottom here what i do
like is that peacock is kind of
experimenting with the free tier this is
something that i hope other services
kind of jump onto
but it does get a little bit confusing
because instead of just a free tier and
a paid tier peacock opted to go with
three different tiers so you can pay
nothing monthly and have commercial
supported programming but then you only
have access to about half the library on
the streaming service if you pay five
bucks a month then yeah you do get
access to the full library but it's
still commercial supported or you can
pay 10 bucks a month and get access to
the entire library and almost never have
to watch commercials so did that sound
like a lot because it is a lot i would
much prefer it if they just said hey you
either pay or you don't you watch
commercials or you don't that's not the
way they opted to go we'll see how the
experiment plays out over the next year
or two but yeah it is a little bit
confusing and frustrating to me the
other thing is that this app is kind of
buggy okay so whether i'm using it on my
roku on my fire stick on my chromecast i
do tend to get uh some bugs in this app
so i'm trying to watch a program i click
on it it does nothing it doesn't click
into the the show page it doesn't give
me a play option and i have to restart
the app to get in and finally get to the
show
so it's frustrating right i mean
obviously that's frustrating and i could
forgive it if it happened every once in
a while but this tends to happen fairly
frequently every few times that i go
into the app i find that i'm not able to
get into my shows i have to relaunch the
app yeah very annoying that brings us to
number one my least favorite streaming
app out there and this breaks my heart
okay i didn't think it would go this way
but as i was doing the rankings it was
unavoidable apple tv plus has to be
ranked at the bottom of these premium
services and speaking of buggy like i
was with peacock apple tv plus is very
buggy off of the apple hardware okay so
kind of like i was talking about with
prime video working best on fire tv
sticks or cubes or what have you it's
the same thing here on apple tv plus if
you're watching it on your iphone your
ipad your apple tv device
it works fantastically well but as soon
as you get off of that hardware they
just don't really seem to be paying
attention to how those apps are
operating i literally cannot watch apple
tv plus on my chromecast it crashes it
every single time now you could blame
that on the hardware except that every
other app that i run on that device runs
perfectly smoothly it's just apple tv
plus and the same thing happens to a
lesser degree on my roku on my fire
stick so apple tv plus has some real
issues with its buggy software that i
really need to see them take care of
before i could ever think about bumping
them up the list and then there's the
content now this is something that we
talked about when apple tv plus came out
almost two years ago was the lack of
content so when it came out they had
what something like 20 or 30 titles
maybe when it launched it was a really
sad amount of content but the content
was very good however you can only get
by on that for so long like i said it's
been almost two years now and they've
gone from 20 or 30 titles to about 70.
so when you're talking about apple tv
plus versus some of these others that
have huge back catalogs whether it's
peacock or netflix for that matter or
amazon prime they do have monstrous huge
back catalogs and apple tv plus simply
can't compete with that so as much as i
love and i do love their original
content i love ted lasso c for all
mankind the morning show they make some
great stuff they just don't have
anything behind those to back it up so
that's my ranking i know like i said
this is a very subjective thing and your
rankings are going to be a little bit
different so i want you to hit the
comments and give me your top five or
really bottom five streaming services
let me know which one is the worst out
of these and which one is the best i
know we'll all come to very different
conclusions but that's the fun of it so
hit the comments remember to play nice
with each other and yeah let's have some
fun down there discussing which ones are
at the bottom of this particular barrel
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