Philo Edu Reviews – Page 5
1/5 rating based on 55 reviews. Read all reviews for Philo Edu for iPhone.
Philo Edu is free iOS app published by Philo, Inc.
The app is just as bad as the website
Samd253
So this is how the University of Washington provides tv service to students on campus. The Philo service is horrible, I am fairly sure they are just live streaming the tv service from another television provider. There have been times when I have tried watching a show from my phone and in the middle of watching the show a channel guide for what looks like DirecTv appears and there is literally somebody else flipping through the channel guide on my screen while I am trying to watch a football game. The quality is terrible, normal channels that would be in HD are very blurry in low quality. The aspect ratio for shows is incorrect and you have to double tap to zoom in on some shows which only magnified the already poor quality. Then there is the delay problem. Often times if I am watching a critical sports match I have to go turn off my notifications because the show on philo is easily delayed by 45 seconds and I will get scoring notifications well before they appear on screen. Ruining the anticipation of watching a live game. The connection is also pretty bad. At school we have 200mbps download speeds and yet the philo service constantly stutters while playing shows live. You often have to watch the show at even more of a delay than there already was. The interface is nonintuitive and it often freezes. Honestly I can't believe that this is the service that schools use to provide tv service to students. There's really nothing good I can say about it other than at least it's a free app after you have paid for your tuition... at least there's some way to watch shows, but Philo is a poor option.
Recording is Glitched
CylerTitor
Recorded my first episode today and tried watching it. Complete failure. The recording kept rewinding back to minutes before while the recording timer kept going. Literally watched the same clip 3 times. Didn't even get to watch the whole episode before the time taken to rewind and catch up cut into the normal episode time and the recording stopped before the episode was fully finished.
GARBAGE
WestLax10
This app never works. Not on my iPhone or iPad. It never gets to the loading screen even. I have full WiFi in my dorm hall because I’m able to watch Netflix on all my devices. But whenever I try to give this dumb thing a try it doesn’t even load. I haven’t even been able to see what is on TV. I’ve had this in our building for 8 weeks and I’ve never been more disappointed with something at my College. 0/10. Never get this. Philo Edu should be illegal. I hate it with a passion. If zero stars was possible then I would give it that.
Needs a batch delete function
Andrew_Stahl
I use this through my university, it’s a great service. But there should be a batch delete function, if we want to select multiple episodes or shows to delete at once. I have 192 recordings, for example, and want it to clean it up without going through each one
Complete Trash
Nobody1472156
The website redirects you to the app when your on mobile, which means you can’t watch Philo on your phone, because 9 times out of 10, Philo says your education account doesn’t exist
PLAYBACK ERROR
kevonxx
Why does it have to be like this? If I try to watch anything it just says playback error. I just want this app to do what it's supposed to.
Needs update
matttyler3
Glitch when trying to watch the beginning of a recorded show as it is still on live. If a show starts at 8 and begins recording and I sit down to begin watching at 8:15 the show stops playing and glitches.
Great
Syjf96.0,9,96.69:06,60
Philo is a great service for students. It works well for me and the fact that recordings are just stored in the cloud and not on your phone is nice. You can record as much as you want or watch live tv. The app has occasional glitches. I would really love to see an Apple TV app or an Xbox app to watch it on a tv
Honestly pretty bad
bonedaddy4538
Although the app works (mostly) it’s not a good experience. No iPhone X support even though their other philo app does. App honestly looks like it came from iOS 5 and somehow is still supported. Developers needa quit playing games with this and just fix it already it was this bad when I STARTED university almost 4 years ago? and I’m about to graduate and it’s STILL as bad