{"id":143266,"date":"2024-12-18T00:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T05:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/?p=143266"},"modified":"2024-12-18T00:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T05:35:35","slug":"are-streaming-service-menu-systems-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/are-streaming-service-menu-systems-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Streaming Service Menu Systems The Worst?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"daves-3648151763\" class=\"daves-single-post-before-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><p>I subscribe to half a dozen video <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/which-is-your-favourite-streaming-service\/\">streaming services<\/a> and, in my opinion, not one provides a decent menu system.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s just me but I find the majority of these streaming services\u2019 menu systems unintuitive and tedious. I won\u2019t go into detail because I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll each have your own pet peeves. Suffice it to say that I suspect these menu systems must have been designed by an out-and-out sadist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Streaming-Services-Logos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-134227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Streaming-Services-Logos.jpg\" alt=\"streaming-services-logos\" width=\"615\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Streaming-Services-Logos.jpg 615w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Streaming-Services-Logos-350x45.jpg 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Streaming-Services-Logos-150x19.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Sorry, You Can&#8217;t Watch That Here<\/h3>\n<p>I have multiple issues with these menu systems but the latest and greatest is listing content that is not available via the <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/which-is-your-favourite-streaming-service\/\">streaming service<\/a> I&#8217;m connected to. For example, I connect to Amazon Prime, see a show that I&#8217;m pretty sure I will enjoy, so I click to view and am advised that I can only watch this show on Paramount+ or some other streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>This type of misleading listing, I assume to bulk up content, is now rife across all streaming services.<\/p><div id=\"daves-3506543630\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Free Or Pay-For-View?<\/h3>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the habit of listing content that requires payment mixed in with all the free content. Same situation, I click to watch a show that sounds interesting only to discover that it costs an often exorbitant amount of money to watch.<\/p>\n<p>For goodness sake, I wish these companies would list only what is available to view through their own particular service, and why they cannot separate free content from pay-for-view content is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>By far the worst offender in both cases is AppleTV+, but they&#8217;re all at it to some extent. In fairness, <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/?s=amazon+prime\">Amazon Prime<\/a> is one that does at least mark its pay-for-view content with a little yellow dot to distinguish same from the free content.<\/p>\n<h3>Content Fragmentation<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netflix-Menu.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-134226 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netflix-Menu.jpg\" alt=\"netflix-menu\" width=\"610\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netflix-Menu.jpg 610w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netflix-Menu-350x41.jpg 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netflix-Menu-150x18.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/streaming-services-the-good-the-not-so-good\/\">written previously<\/a> about how the advent of multiple streaming services has created content fragmentation. That is, you can watch some seasons of a show on one <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/which-is-your-favourite-streaming-service\/\">streaming service<\/a> and other seasons of the same show only on a different <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/which-is-your-favourite-streaming-service\/\">streaming service<\/a>.<\/p><div id=\"daves-2531788515\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content-2\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>So now, apparently, they have all taken to listing each other&#8217;s content. That&#8217;s fine, but please separate that content from your own content, is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n<h3>The Old Switcharoo<\/h3>\n<p>New content is scarce with most <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/which-is-your-favourite-streaming-service\/\">streaming services<\/a>, with the possible exception of <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/?s=netflix\">Netflix<\/a>. But then, most of Netflix&#8217;s new content is foreign. <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/claim-free-games-on-amazon-prime\/\">Amazon Prime<\/a> is not too bad for new content either, but new content on most is as rare as hen&#8217;s teeth.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve adopted a system, &#8220;the old switcharoo&#8221;. What I do is subscribe to a service for (say) 3- 4 months and once I\u2019ve completed everything I want to watch, I cancel that subscription and subscribe to a different service, repeating that cycle every 3- 4 months or so. By the time I go back to a service (after 3- 4 months), there is usually a good selection of new content to watch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing many of you might employ a similar system.<\/p><div id=\"daves-2352318765\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content-3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Okay, so that&#8217;s my rant over. How about you? Any pet peeves about streaming services and\/or their menu systems? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div id=\"daves-1060952700\" class=\"daves-after-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3225321574\" \ndata-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I subscribe to half a dozen video streaming services and, in my opinion, not one provides a decent menu system. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s just me but I find the majority of these streaming services\u2019 menu systems unintuitive and tedious. I won\u2019t go into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,4554],"tags":[11465,14055],"class_list":["post-143266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consumer","category-entertainment","tag-streaming-services","tag-video-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}