Nothing drove my adoption of prime video faster then the auto play on Netflix. To their credit I contacted them asking if there was a way to turn it off and at least spoke with a friendly person about how awful it made the experience.
I find it annoying on youtube though, for some reason.
Edit: Oh, wait, are you talking about autoplaying preview trailers or autoplaying the next episode? I like the next episode feature, autoplaying trailers are annoying.
Binge watching is not that different from binge drinking - it's a path to oblivion. You might still have enough health to deal with it, but the health itself dwindles in the process.
You got it. I want to be able to open the app and flip through my options in peace. Having the preview play automatically makes the experience into a sick game of hot potato. Go too slow and you are blasted with random preview music with every click...
Kids shows are worse though. Netflix will sometimes helpfully restart the entire series when you finish it. Super Halloween Monsters all day long with no intervention needed woo.
On the other hand my Amazon Video app (Roku in my tv) is slow as hell and I'm lucky if it doesn't crash (1) on launch, (2) between the homescreen and the video I selected, (3) between the episode selection and the video actually playing, (4) sometime in the first 10 minutes, (5) randomly thereafter.
Prime Video on Fire TV boxes now autoplays some selections in the menu (maybe just Amazon original content?). Now I have to mute my TV with Prime Video just like is required for Netflix.
Prime doesn't have the bizarre, useless, space-wasting auto-expanding selections like Netflix though.
Netflix stream selection UX is so infuriatingly atrocious.
The worst aspect is how it shrinks the credits and cuts them off prematurely, so you have to go and click on them, in case you want to watch them. Many shows have extra scenes at the end of the credits, for example. Or sometimes you just want to listen to the music, like at the end of Silicon Valley which has some great tracks.
I really dislike the modern Netflix UI. I miss the old Netflix, where you could rate your shows with stars, it did a good job of actually suggesting things, and didn't force you to make choices you didn't want to make.
I second this. The auto play is super irritating, dosen't let me browse in peace and has led me to exit Netflix and try something else more than a few times.
The convenience of the app based remote has allowed us to function relatively well without a TV remote at all. One drawback is the lack of remote volume control - so I'm interested in a peaceful experience while browsing.
The Netflix web interface hs a mute button that only applies to trailers, which the poster I was replying to was referring to.
And yes, since you ask, my TV’s mute button doesn’t do anything when speakers are connected via the optical cable (I suppose it sends some event and the optical -> analogue converter I use to hook the TV into my ancient sound system just doesn’t know how to handle it). But that isn’t Netflix’s fault.
