[London Lite]

It's just awful. With the iPlayer you seem to get the same level of service on every platform (though it took a few years to get to that point). I basically have three I now watch streamers directly on my TV - via Freeview Play (on a Humax device only bought last year), via an Android TV and via an Amazon Firestick.

On Freeview Play - it's just a flat no from ITVX. My year old device is too old - ITVX thinks it's better than every other streamer on the platform.

On Android TV I've not actually tried watching content yet, but have noticed the live streams aren't available.

On Amazon Fire the live streams work fine, but the on demand content almost always crashes after the first break - and unlike other streamers when it crashes it doesn't let you pick off from roughly where you left off - you have to fast forward to the next part and hope it doesn't crash again. And then repeat for each part.


I've not tried chromecasting yet or seen if it works on my NOW TV stick (I now watch NOW through the Fire stick) but I think we've got to a point with technology and apps where the customer is less likely to be inclined to update their hardware to accomodate software upgrades which aren't compatable. Obviously legacy services cost money to maintain but I think relaunching a service that cuts off so many of the existing users isn't a great strategy.

NVidia Shield which uses Android TV OS works fine with live streams, but I've had to use the Refresh Rate app to render the streams at 50Hz otherwise you get motion judder even with the box configured at 1080p/50Hz.

Fire TV Cube works fine with ITVX, but I have Premium so can't comment on the crashing issues.