robin huber

Oh, god, the end of live-person support is nigh. It may not be perfect, but at least it’s human. I’d much rather talk to an human from India than a bot from nowhere. “Rage Against The Machine.”

The user interface on all streamers is abysmal, but Netflix is the least annoying. AppleTV+ Home screen buries that last thing you watched back wherever you found it so that you must hunt it down again to continue watching. Selection is difficult because the selected icon barely responds, it gets .01% larger and there is no other visual cue that it is selected. Their own new shows are not prominently featured, and the remote?, don’t get me started. I can’t pick it up without accidentally depressing the Siri button on the side or some other control accidentally. It’s always sucked. I honestly always think that whoever designed it never uses it. The remote everyone should copy is TiVo’s. Hands down the best designed and engineered. Yes, it’s big, but the “peanut” fit the hand nicely, and all buttons are real, not touch sensitive. I hate that in cars without knobs and I hate it on remotes. Sometime bigger is better. 

Would be nice if they offered an online calculator tool to help find which configuration of plans would save most. 

What does it take to make government pinheads understand that a backdoor for one is a backdoor for all?

Yes please. The problem with super high quality episodic streaming is that it takes time. You can pump out a good-enough popular series every year like clockwork. But when you’re making a big budget movie in episodes you cannot while preserving what made it popular. I do have a suggestion. Instead of structuring the plot arc over an entire season with cliff-hanger ending each episode, break the entire season into three complete storylines. Loose ends can link each to the next as sequel driven movies do. This way they can get a complete product, albeit a shorter one, each year. This solves the problem of losing the thread.