Why is ITV Hub so useless?

Do you ever listen to the TV reviews with Nihal on 5 Live?

They basically never recommended anything on ITV as this would involve directing people towards the spectacularly awful ITV Hub, which appears to have been designed as some type of Labyrinth

Do you ever listen to the TV reviews with Nihal on 5 Live?

They basically never recommended anything on ITV as this would involve directing people towards the spectacularly awful ITV Hub, which appears to have been designed as some type of Labyrinth

To your question, no

But I concur - took me ages to even find the back episodes

The whole EFL show went tits up anyway when they took it off Quest with Colin Murray, he was a fab presenter of the show

Ah yes I tried to use it on the In-Law's TV 2015 Samsung and along with some other makes its not supported?

You would think given it shows ads they would maximise its covarage!

I assumed the awfulness is actually designed in to persuade people to sign up for the ad-free version.

Nothing could be that bad by accident...

And then there are the adverts.
Every 30 seconds fro about 9 minutes

2015 Samsung and along with some other makes its not supported

Yes, they've just recently dropped support for some older devices (including my Panasonic PVR) on the grounds of 'copyright protection'.

I could sort of understand it for ‘copyright protection’ for PVR's as Humax was another that lost support but seeing as you could have recorded it at the time of broadcast that's just bobbins anyway.

I seem to remember it was pretty shite on the few occasions I used it anyway, but they wanted to watch the last Doc Martin thingy and trying to be the good son in law said I'll find it for them!

Fortunately my TV has also lost support. The thing that used to irritate me more than anything was if you stopped a show part way through and came back to it. The 'RESUME' option just meant start from the beginning again. Utter shambles of an app.
I have recently discovered that casting from my phone is miles better. Still shite, but miles better than the TV app.

I feel your pain.

I'd love to watch the Tour highlights on there instead of Eurosport, but I can never work out how.

Missing Gary Imlach & Chris Boardman 🙁

And then there are the adverts

Having tried to watch some programmes, I've come to the conclusion that it's just there to lure you in to watch adverts with the vague hint of a a promise that somehow the programme will re-appear.

Why is ITV Hub so useless?

Partly because they've been working on a big flashy new platform that's due to launch early next year, like some sort of unnecessary iPlayer clone. Don't know why that rather than just make what they've got work, but hey ho.

I’d love to watch the Tour highlights on there instead of Eurosport, but I can never work out how.

I've done this for about 6-7 years now, watching the highlights every night after the stage, never really had much problem?

I’ve done this for about 6-7 years now, watching the highlights every night after the stage, never really had much problem?

Mainly because it logs me out on the TV app and "forgets" me, so I give up in exasperation and go back to the warm embrace of Carlton Kirby.

I use it to watch Family Guy and American Dad, that's it. Even then it was so I could watch them in HD having ditched Sky, and I can't get ITV2 in HD anymore. Was watching those live with it but that did my head in as it would show an ad in the ap before switching to any live TV channel, only to find the live channel is showing an ad also! Now I just watch on demand, but still get too many adverts for too long. All4 ad breaks are better.

Anyway, ITV Hub is getting replaced with ITVX which also replaces BritBox with ITV taking full ownership as the Beeb have chucked in the towel (though it will still show Beeb shows).

I've literally just had notification that they're launching a new app ITVX, crap name but if it works better then good.

they’re launching a new app ITVX, crap name but if it works better then good.

Yep, the name is a bit 2015, but I can't think of anything better at 9am so...

I'm happy that I have Sky now, so I can access and record ITV stuff on the excellent Sky UI.

I’ve literally just had notification that they’re launching a new app ITVX

Me too, I assumed it was their new naughty channel 😉

Even then it was so I could watch them in HD having ditched Sky, and I can’t get ITV2 in HD anymore

Interesting. Having said that, turns out ITV2-4 have gone free-to-air HD and are on Freesat now.

https://rxtvinfo.com/2022/freesat-upgrades-itv2-itv3-and-itv4-to-hd

Though my satellite reception is screwed now. Some channels are getting low to zero strength, others 80% strength and quality. I had that when I was using the old Sky HD box but put it down to the box as one of the inputs worked okay, the other was dodgy regardless of swapping the cables, then the box broke anyway. Plugged into the TV instead as it has Freesat and has been working fine on all Freesat channels for last few months, but now playing up. Oddly it's different channels to what was going wrong on the Sky box.

Though I struggle to find anything I want to watch on Freesat. Had got to that point with Sky even paying for it.