HISTORY: TV Shows on Demand

Name: HISTORY: TV Shows on Demand
Rating: 4.25286 (11247 reviews)

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HISTORY: TV Shows on Demand

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User Reviews for HISTORY: TV Shows on Demand

Good content, terrible app

I have the app on my Apple TV to watch History Channel shows. The app will freeze and you will have to either back out of the program and try to start it again or sometimes you won’t get the chance to try that because the app will close itself completely. There are a lot of commercials, they offer ‘interactive’ commercials where you only watch a single commercial but you have to interact with it to close it. Problem is that after interacting with the commercial it will still show you more commercials anyway. All that is nothing compared to the audio constantly coming out of sync with the video. The audio will glitch and jump backward 15-20 seconds, but the video keeps going. The only way to fix it is to back out of the program and go back in. It will happen over and over again in a single episode. Sometimes every 3-5 minutes. I like the content on the app. But they need to fix the bugs.

andrewthekid, Apr 06, 2021

The commercials make watching any show very annoying!

I really wish the History channel would fix the issues where the commercials cause the sound & video to be out of sink. It’s constant & the only way to fix it is to exit the show & restart it where u left off. You have to do this about 4 or 5 times during the show in order to get the sound & video to sink back together. It’s so aggravating that I stopped watching all shows on the History channel for many months. I love the shows on the History channel, but sometimes it’s just not worth the headache & annoyance that the commercials cause. I watch a lot of different apps that also have commercial breaks, but they do not have this issue. The commercials play & the show always stays in sink with the audio. This issue is specific to the History channel app. I watch this channel on two different Apple TV’s & on my iphone. All of them have this same issue. Please fix this!!! I cannot express enough just how annoying it is to try & watch a show with a lot of dialogue (which most History channel shows have) that is constantly out of sink with the video.

Cynthiatx, May 11, 2022

Great content, annoying app

This review is for the tvOS app. No complaints about the shows on History Channel. In the tvOS app they look and sound fine. But the UX in the app is rough and riddled with bugs. 1. Constantly repeats the same show segments after an ad. I suspect this is triggered by the ad insertion system as it only seems to happen after fast forwarding through a show segment (which typically triggers a commercial). This happens a LOT!2. So many commercials. It is almost unbearable to see the same commercial this many times. Forcing viewers to sit through the same commercial 15 times during an episode is bad business. Binge watching? I hope you’re ok watching a commercial a hundred times or more. 3. Mediocre navigating. I have to work harder than I’d expect to find what I want to watch in this app. 4. I have to log in / activate every other time I launch the tvOS app. Super annoying and time consuming. Multiple AppleTV’s have the same issue. 5. TvOS app doesn’t always remember what episodes I’ve watched so I’m constantly guessing which episode was last viewed. Add to this the issues above with fast forwarding and I’ve spent longer trying to get to the last 5 minutes of an episode than the length of the episode itself. I’m still using the app to binge some of my favorite shows but the bugs and UX issues make it a lot more difficult than it should be.

Deliberate Living, Jun 28, 2020

Good, but a few suggestions.

I really like that the History channel has decided to join the streaming service community. They have a great variety of pretty much all the shows you see on the History channel through a TV service provider.However, i’m a bit disappointed that you have to have a TV Service provider in order to get any access above the very few select episodes they offer for free. I wish they would follow suit to the other streaming services and offer a monthy, tri-monthy, 1/2 year, or a year’s subscription plan at some rate for those that do not have a TV service provider, but would like access to these shows. With the vast array of streaming services becoming more and more available, I believe it is only a matter of time before streaming services completely take over from TV service provider’s. My family is finding that it is much cheaper to pay for the tailored channels and streaming services we like, often at a much cheaper rate than tv service providers. For that reason, we are trying to do away with our own tv service provider. But the fact that History Live requires you to have a Tv service provider does not make that option readily available to those following this path, or simply unable to have tv service. I believe the history channel would be able to profit much more and attract a greater audience if they offered membership rates (monthly, 3-months, 6-months, 1 year) in addition to the free option already available if you have a tv service provider.

Fjddjrd, Mar 05, 2021

Nice to watch “Alone” episodes

I like this app being free so I can watch the Alone series. Of course, being free it is ad heavy. However, I find the ads shorter, and far less irritating than tv ads which are 40 minutes of a 60 minute show. Add in that tv shows now repeat several minutes of content after every commercial - content you already watched before the commercial - and you actually experience very little new content in an hour long show.I am just now using this app again after an absence of several years. Previously there were occasionally streaming issues, with the episodes stopping and freezing with it stuck trying to load.Haven’t had any issues so far this time. 🤞🏽For reference, I’m streaming the app on a second generation ipad.

Grey Myst, Jun 09, 2022

Worst streaming app ever!

The History channel streaming app for Apple TV is the worst network television streaming app ever and has been for several years. All of the issues others have listed are true, and still occurring after years of complaints. Let’s take my experience tonight as an example. I thought I would try to catch up on Forged in Fire. I think I was four episodes behind. During each of those episodes, when the show reaches a commercial break the app either simply crashes, or better yet, skips over the whole section of the show and goes into the next commercial break. These issues didn’t happen occasionally, they happen at every commercial break. This isn’t the first time I encounter these issues. I only have enough patience to use the app maybe once a month. Every time I use the app these issues reoccur. Luckily for you, I have the solution. Fire everyone involved in app development, everyone from upper management to ground level developers and testers, and start from scratch. With how long the app has been so horrible it’s obvious no one cares to give their customers a quality experience. And if I’m lucky I’ll get a reply to this review with their canned response to email them for assistance. Tell me this, how is your support going to fix this for one user, why not actually produce a quality product for all of your users.

iluvtofumt, Feb 04, 2022

Love history, the app is hit or miss

I use this app on my Apple TV and it glitches on every single episode. When History Channel app first came out, I watched all the time because I could stream all my favorite shows WITHOUT COMMERCIALS. Now, commercials are integrated into everything and I’d rather pay more to not have them than be inundated with crap that I don’t want or need and doesn’t even pertain to history. The commercials are probably why it glitches so much now. I have to stop and reload the episode to fix the sound/video glitches and even force closes the app to make it run at all. Now, the app on my phone runs much better, but there’s no pop-out option for the video, so I can’t multitask on my phone. Please get rid of commercials and fix the glitches. I’d rather not watch tv than have to interact with commercials or do so much to get the episodes to play. Sincerely,Frustrated

Mdigginit, Aug 10, 2021

Hopeful of a great app, semi-decent at best.

I downloaded this app onto my Apple TV when I started to watch a History Channel original series. Though I was excited to watch this series I became a fan of on History, the headaches began as I started to watch. Frequently, and multiple times per episode, audio will desync from the video. This only way to fix this issue is to back out of the episode and then to restart it, resuming where I left off.What makes it worse, is that the app does not keep track of where you last were watching, constantly hopping between seasons OR episodes within a season. This means having to search around to find the right episode.Worse yet. At times, after the episode is restarted to fix the audio, the video will change it’s ratio to a 4:3 with a large big black box off the right 1/3 part of the screen. To fix that, again, I have to stop the episode again, deal with the issues mentioned in the previous paragraph, and hope and prey to some deity that it will work when I restart it again.Overall, I’m greatly disappointed by an app that has been released by such a large organization like the History Channel. I would come to hope to find something that works a lot better for a channel this large.

Mish Jean, Mar 22, 2021

Love the Past

I can only say that when we studied things like the “Roaring 20’s,The Depression,The Boston Tea Party,The Roman Empire, right on back to when the Dinosaurs roamed the Earth” and we as children could not escape from the exciting things we were being taught, only a lot of the ways we were taught was matter of factly very boring. I really liked it when there was a film, even fact filled documentaries were great. As valuable as a books knowledge can be, they’ll never be as interesting as someone else doing the reading and telling about it. Ever since I can remember and before is how far back my true desire to be next to GOD goes. Now with that being said, Please History Channel Accept My Full Hearted Thankfulness!!!! You Make History Fun!! I Sincerely hope that you continue to be a large part of the knowledge that we seek the most.Knowledge of Ourselves!!!!

see a fish, Jan 31, 2019

Death by ads

This app could be great but it really is unwatchable because of the advertisements and commercials. It’s one thing to have too many ads but it’s another for the ads to literally strangle out the shows. I have done testing and I have discovered that the history shows draw little in data compared to most Which does tend to affect video quality but the ads seem to only play in very high and clear quality. So the data is nearly double or quite often extremely high compared to the shows so they tend to freeze a lot more often. Most of the time they don’t even resume playing again so you have to restart the whole app and hope that you don’t get the same commercial that froze it last time. The Google AdSense ads are even worse because they never play straight through because they’re trying to draw so much data at once that it just freezes. I have even tried this on Wi-Fi gigabit speed‘s and it still freezes and will not continue to play. All of the ads and commercials have made this app unbearable and unwatchable. Until they resolve this issue it is not recommended that you waste your time and effort and dad are just forward to keep freezing.

wildzapper77, Jun 08, 2021

Description

Stream your favorite HISTORY TV shows including The Curse of Oak Island, Ancient Aliens, Forged in Fire, American Pickers & more. Watch full episodes on your favorite iOS device. Watch all your favorite HISTORY series such as: • Alone • American Pickers • Ancient Aliens • AxMen • Forged in Fire • Mountain Men • Pawn Stars • Project Blue Book • Swamp People • The Curse of Oak Island • The UnXplained ....

plus many more! NEW! Live streaming on the app. Yes, that’s right, you can now stream HISTORY straight from your iOS device. • Stream your favorite HISTORY TV shows • Discover incredible stories from the past and present with our ground-breaking series • Create a HISTORY profile to continue watching episodes where you left off on any device Download the HISTORY app now to watch the latest episodes, whenever you want. For even more HISTORY download HISTORY Vault. Please note: This app features Nielsen’s proprietary measurement software which contributes to market research, like Nielsen’s TV Ratings. Please see https://priv-policy.imrworldwide.com/priv/mobile/us/en/optout.html for more information Please note that HISTORY content is only available to stream in the United States.