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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9267414" data-attributes="member: 6796661">I agree, but I also find the interfaces for all the major streaming services seem to be getting worse and less useful. The most frustrating thing for nearly all services is finding shows I've been watching to pick up on the next episode. I remember it being almost automatic. Just today, I was in Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and Amazon. ALL three made it frustrating just to find the shows I've been watching. In ALL of them, I had to search for the shows title. None of the shows I am actively watching appear on the home page. Apple TV has it right. It is the by far the most intuitive streaming show interface. &quot;Up Next&quot; is the top row on the home screen, showing all the shows you've watch recently, letting you click to play the next episode.&nbsp; One area where Apple TV could use improvement is browsing by Genre.&nbsp; Both Netflix and Amazon are better in this regard. In terms of content, I don't find Amazon to be worse than other services. Netflix used to be far ahead in overall selection, but over the past few years it has lost rights to a lot of IP as many studios set up their own competing streaming services. About the only thing I watch on Netflix now are Netflix original series and exclusives. I've been playing the cancel and resubscribe game for the past couple years to see the shows I want to watch. In terms of finding new shows or movies to watch, I rarely try to do so from the streaming services interfaces. I just search or hear about things online, add them to a list of &quot;things to watch&quot; and then search for them by name in the streaming service.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9267414, member: 6796661"] I agree, but I also find the interfaces for all the major streaming services seem to be getting worse and less useful. The most frustrating thing for nearly all services is finding shows I've been watching to pick up on the next episode. I remember it being almost automatic. Just today, I was in Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and Amazon. ALL three made it frustrating just to find the shows I've been watching. In ALL of them, I had to search for the shows title. None of the shows I am actively watching appear on the home page. Apple TV has it right. It is the by far the most intuitive streaming show interface. "Up Next" is the top row on the home screen, showing all the shows you've watch recently, letting you click to play the next episode. One area where Apple TV could use improvement is browsing by Genre. Both Netflix and Amazon are better in this regard. In terms of content, I don't find Amazon to be worse than other services. Netflix used to be far ahead in overall selection, but over the past few years it has lost rights to a lot of IP as many studios set up their own competing streaming services. About the only thing I watch on Netflix now are Netflix original series and exclusives. I've been playing the cancel and resubscribe game for the past couple years to see the shows I want to watch. In terms of finding new shows or movies to watch, I rarely try to do so from the streaming services interfaces. I just search or hear about things online, add them to a list of "things to watch" and then search for them by name in the streaming service. [/QUOTE]

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