Doesn’t measure up – AT&T WatchTV Review

We have WatchTV free with our cell phone plan and use it alongside PSVue on a Firestick to supplement a few live channels that PSVue doesn’t offer. App navigation is ok, but the biggest issue is in playback of shows. There is no DVR, so shows are served on demand (you do have the option to tag a show as a favorite and see which episodes you haven’t watched yet). The ads are VERY frequent during playback. I just timed a 1 hour show and there were 7 ad segments consisting of 4-6 ads each (a total of 3 minutes each time). That’s standard live TV commercial time but far more than the standard streaming on demand ad time. This wouldn’t be so bad if the ads didn’t CONSTANTLY freeze for several seconds, so 3 minutes of ads often take more like 5 or 6 minutes. We don’t have an internet speed issue, so this is an app problem. I wouldn’t pay for this service but we’ll keep slugging along to watch a couple favorite shows we can’t get on PSVue.
Review by TracyKPA on AT&T WatchTV.