Hulu is terrible

[UCFKnight85]

I watch something on Netflix- flawless. Something on Amazon- flawless. Try simply logging onto Hulu and can’t. When in, and try to watch something, you get nothing but buffer he’ll.

I just searched and apparently tons of people have this issue regardless of how you’re using Hulu.

How can a steaming service not provide a product that can actually reliably stream?

 

[NinjaKnight]

I'll agree with you on that, I have 100 Mbs internet and still get buffering on Hulu. Sling is actually worse for me, only have them for CFB season and now I'm cancelling again.

 

[UCFKnight85]

Hulu still won’t load.

I called them and they blamed my internet. I told them every other steaming app works perfect- they didn’t seem to care.

 

[goodknightfl]

That was why I dropped them 2 years ago. glad to see they have fixed the issue.

 

[UCFWayne]

PS Vue is really good. The only problem with it is the interface can lag on some of the older streaming hardware. It can be slow with the fire sticks and cheap rokus. If its on good hardware it runs great.

 

[UCFKnight85]

PS Vue is really good. The only problem with it is the interface can lag on some of the older streaming hardware. It can be slow with the fire sticks and cheap rokus. If its on good hardware it runs great.

Mine is an App on a TV that I bought just last year. Every other App runs flawlessly except Hulu.

 

[UCFWayne]

Mine is an App on a TV that I bought just last year. Every other App runs flawlessly except Hulu.

Built in TV hardware typically are under powered. PS Vue might not run that well on your tv either. Sometimes it takes awhile for the guide and list of my shows to show up. However, once you are on a channel, it runs just fine.

I personally think its the best and would recommend the free trial at least to test out.

 

[UCFKnight85]

Built in TV hardware typically are under powered. PS Vue might not run that well on your tv either. Sometimes it takes awhile for the guide and list of my shows to show up. However, once you are on a channel, it runs just fine.

I personally think its the best and would recommend the free trial at least to test out.

I just don't get how Netflix can have an awesome flawless App and delivery system whereas Hulu is panned as being crap by so many users. I've heard this complaint from people using virtually every way possible to stream Hulu. Maybe Netflix invested properly in their delivery systems working better and Hulu did not.

 

[cnsaguy]

On a side note, my tv seems to have crapped and won't recognize the router/password. All other devices are working fine on wifi.

Is this cost effective to fix or do I bite the bullet and get a new tv. It's only about 4 years old.

 

[UCFWayne]

On a side note, my tv seems to have crapped and won't recognize the router/password. All other devices are working fine on wifi.

Is this cost effective to fix or do I bite the bullet and get a new tv. It's only about 4 years old.

Built in android tv? because you can get some pretty cheap devices that do the same thing.

 

[NinjaKnight]

On a side note, my tv seems to have crapped and won't recognize the router/password. All other devices are working fine on wifi.

Is this cost effective to fix or do I bite the bullet and get a new tv. It's only about 4 years old.

You can just buy a Roku or something similar and hook that up since the TV itself is fine.

 

[My_Lament_Dreams]

I run sling and Hulu through my roku. Never had any issues other than espn3 having blips or freezing of the video feed through sling. It’s like it runs for five seconds, then hiccups where the screen will freeze briefly then resume, or completely freezes the video feed but the audio continues.

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

I’ve had a great time with my amazon 4K fire tv and PlayStation vue. Netflix works like a charm on it as well. Wish I had cut cable years ago since I am saving $127 a month after canceling directv and haven’t even noticed any content I’m missing.

 

[KNIGHTTIME^]

I use the PlayStation Vue with Amazon FireTV. It is almost always solid. If you try to use the Amazon firestick, forget about it. It takes forever to load. I'm definitely a fan of the Vue over the others but you have to use the hardware that is fast enough to move between channels.

I'm using Prime, Netflix, Vue ($45 package). People don't realize the cable boxes can drain over $20 per month off each box with electric costs. You don't have that with streaming services. The vue will DVR in the cloud.

 

[UCFBS]

I run sling and Hulu through my roku. Never had any issues other than espn3 having blips or freezing of the video feed through sling. It’s like it runs for five seconds, then hiccups where the screen will freeze briefly then resume, or completely freezes the video feed but the audio continues.

That's the ESPN app. I've had the issue on Roku, Android and others. It handles latency like crap.

The funny thing is that now I'm on really slow DSL, the ESPN app works just fine. But I have very reliable ping-times on slow DSL, unlike when I had 10x+ faster cable with the multi-second freezes.

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

That's the ESPN app. I've had the issue on Roku, Android and others. It handles latency like crap.

The funny thing is that now I'm on really slow DSL, the ESPN app works just fine. But I have very reliable ping-times on slow DSL, unlike when I had 10x+ faster cable with the multi-second freezes.

My issue with the ESPN app is the sound being behind the visual stuff. It’s always at least a second behind.