HTC TV MAX

The app is good. But won’t send sound through HomePods. They work with all other apps.

Why does HTC feel that a bright white screen and bright white app icon should be on the TV when you first open the app (especially in the evening. It is absolutely jarring when watching TV in the evening. Apple has gone out of its way on their iOS devices, to have a dark mode in the evening, because of the unsettling nature of high contrast screens, especially in the evening. Eliminate as much high contrast, high brightness visual content as you can, especially in the evening. Find a way to use your corporate colors (which you, of course, need to include on any of your products, in a much less jarring presentation, both on your App Icon, and especially your TV Screen Filling Opening Page. Smarten up, and realize that your entertainment products have to be looked at each and every day by your customers. Your introductory prices on your streaming platform are very fair. Also, your 300 gbps (actually 260-285 upload/download) internet service is very good, though there are some things like inconsistent speed that sometimes results in some pixelation. It isn't a constant concern, but I'd rather have a 100% consistent signal. You only get 2-stars, because I hate having my eyes pierced with high contrast and high brightness whenever I'm using your app. TV should be a respite from the shocking things in life, unless I decide that is what I wish to see. I have no say in it when opening your app and having my nervous system stimulated with bright light in my eyes whenever I open your app or look at your app icon.

This was working great on my 1st generation iPad Air. Apple updated iOS to 12.5.4 which caused the app to crash at launching a show. Version 2.4.0 of the HTC Tv Max app said supported on this iPad. Reported to Apple in the support app. The HTC Tv Max app gets updated to version 2.4.1 and now says iOS 13.2 required and won’t install. Forced obsolescence of perfectly working devices.

The HTC TV Max platform is amazing. I saved money monthly by eliminating six cable boxes. Additionally, I was able to remove all the cables associated with the cable boxes since the Firestick plugs directly into the TV. Initially I was concerned that it would slow down our internet or buffer, but we have not seen a difference with the 100x100 internet package. In our opinion HTC TV Max is awesome!

Recently switched over. So far it’s awesome. Quality is just as good as what we got with our cable boxes and the app is much more responsive then the box. Plus it’s cheaper for all the same channels we had in our original package. So far I have nothing bad to say about this whatsoever.

Switching over is going to save me over $100 in cable box fees each year!