Rakuten TV

I have a collection of films and tv series that I have bought from Rakuten over the years but I can no longer watch them through the Apple TV app. Neither can you airplay or play over HDMI on to a TV. What was Rakuten’s explanation for this? Nothing - not a word. They seemed to have changed their business model from renting and selling quality content to streaming free rubbish. Really poor behaviour Rakuten, you will not be getting any more custom from me. I now await the standard reply apologising for the inconvenience and suggesting I email them 🙄👇🏼

The Apple TV version of this app is useless. This version doesn’t allow mento cast even with permission and being on the same network. The settings button link in the app doesn’t respond and the app keeps telling that cannot find my Apple TV while all the other apps on the same phone cast perfectly

I didn’t even think this was possible in the modern age, but somehow this app doesn’t support mirroring my iPad screen to my monitor via HDMI! Had to watch my movie rental on my tiny iPad screen instead - wouldn’t have rented if this was made clear beforehand. Movie goes black screen when I plug in the hdmi cable but works fine the moment I unplug. All other apps are fine.

i buy any films i wanna watch from rakuten for about half a year now and have not had a single issue! there is a good selection of free films and shows aswell, most movies under £4 and early home releases often.

Just tried watching a film and the status bar is still visible when in full screen. So annoying.

I’ll be removing this as not a fan of promotion of right wing fascist scum

Rakuten have deliberately disabled access to movies I had previously purchased. The AppleTV app no longer allows you to log on and gain access to your Rakuten movie library. It only works on your mobile device. I will never go anywhere near this rip-off company again.

I have tried to watch a lot of live to shows on different platforms without signing in for example I tried to watch Paralympics on channel 4 for free but I can’t but when I want to watch something on Rakuten TV the app is just quote-on-quote GOLD the one issue is that want to watch some original live sports like UEFA champions league or NFL etc but that’s a normal problem since the platform is only one year old but over than that I’m impressed 😁

Nothing more distracting than this!

As a rental platform it offers nothing that Amazon doesn’t. Except the following 1 No Playback of rentals on Apple TV 2 Only SD playback of rentals on a MacBook 3 No AirPlay support for casting So if you want a crappier experience than the competition, but at the same price - Still don’t use this. There are better options.