Reviews for PBS: Watch Live TV Shows

I guess I'm too used to all the perks of the Netflix and Amazon apps. This app is extremely limited in its functionality, unfortunately. You can't back up or fast forward at all when watching a show. The ability to put shows in a list of favorites fails in its functionality. When I click the check mark to add a show, it is not added. Just now I was watching a video in this app and an error message came up telling me that I needed the PBS video app. IOW, the very app I was inside rejected itself.

I was excited about installing this app and bringing a slice of home with me overseas where I retired. Oh, the previews play just fine here, but the episodes of everything I tried are "not available in your region." If you are going to block the episodes, then at least have the decency to block the previews, too. What a complete disappointment.

I love the shows we see on PBS. I think we all have our favorites. I'm partial to Masterpiece, Nature, the Mysteries, Comedies, and of course the concerts. But have grown to love things like the operas, Broadway shows, and music I might not otherwise have listened to. There are educational and humanity documentaries. Just do much and watching thru a nominal membership and the App allows me to choose what and when. Just wish certain shows were available sometimes.

As others have mentioned, while streaming an episode (such as Victoria) the program is interrupted and restarts at the beginning of the episode. Then I have to go through the extremely frustrating task of pressing on the progress bar to find the scene that we were watching. The app has also gotten stuck in the episode preview segment. Had to force the app to stop in Google settings and then restart the app to get it to work again. These problems have been happening for several weeks now.

I have the app on my phone and iPad. On my iPad there are playback options like rewind 10secs but on my Android no, which makes it hard and a bit annoying to watch as I want h many things on my phone. I'd rather just watch it on my TV which limits when I can watch it such as if you are on the go or in the car. Other than that I love the shows and documentaries!!! Very educational.

The panels and navigation are simple but elegant. One glaring issue: the navigation panel stays bright white the whole time. I have to cover it with a piece of dark tape. I hate having to watch the add again if i have to stop and come back to it. After the last update its getting stuck on loading a different menu but that might be my phone. Links to cast info etc would be nice .

Coming from the Roku app this version for Android TV is garbage. Biggest gripe is there is no way to view content that isn't in their featured categories. Want to browse by drama or nature and science? Good luck with that. The only way around I've seen is to login on the website to browse what I want to watch then add it to my list to be available on Android TV. This isn't a new problem but I'd hoped they'd figure it out. I regret renewing my passport access...

Content is great, but a few bigs make it hard to work with. The app logs me out every time I leave, creating an extra step to access any content. Also, it doesn't remember what episode I played last or where I was within an episode, so I have to manually try to find my place every time I walk away and come back. With a few fixes, the app would be much better.

For the past two or three years I have struggled with this app. It just stops streaming when it gets overloaded or something. It's disappointing! I came on here to write I would be canceling my subscription to PBS as they don't seem to put any money into their equipment. However,I just noticed there is a new video player and controls so I have just reinstalled the app and will try again. PBS, please don't disappoint me. I will cancel my subscription if it doesn't make things better.

I love PBS and want to support them every way I can, became a PassPort member to get access to the catalog of shows. When this app works, it's wonderful and high quality. Unfortunately, most of the time it doesn't...will stop, buffer, won't start up again. Have to go to the beginning and restart, trying to drop in where I got cut off. Watching one 55 minute drama episode actually takes 1:30 if I'm lucky, 2 hrs if not. I also have Hulu, Starz, Netflix...but absolutely no issues with them.