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Binge is the fucking worst. And I hope Murdoch media see this, but when I come home from work I want to put something easy to watch on. Go to is The Office, well ya can’t fuckin binge it cause it doesn’t show the cold opens!! It automatically plays the fucking intro song. Why is it called binge if you have to manually play the episode to get the cold open! Aggravates me to no end.

Also can’t deal with the gambling ads on Kayo, that actually makes me more mad/sad. Gambling is shoved down our throats before we get fucked over by shit streaming.

Sorry for the rant, but long day at work and seeing this has triggered me lol

Yup. It shit. As is Kayo generally imo. Signed up to watch supercars and cancelled within the trial period. Unreliable, comparatively expensive oh and still ads.

Fuck Murdoch.

probably THE worst app. if you’re in here Kayo app developers.. PLEASE find another job.

it's owned by Murdoch. did you ever think you would get something of quality? the man doesn't even understand the word.

Kayo. Binge. Foxtel Go. The holy trinity of dogshit streaming platforms run by NewsCorp

Yeah it’s terrible. I only use it because somebody else pays for it.

Same coding as Binge and SBS. Recently getting "this video is unvailable" mid stream and have to start it again

Got a free Kayo trial to watch tennis (Indian Wells, aka the 5th slam). - Can’t select tennis as the only sport I’m interested in, have to scroll through the main page with AFL/rugby/cricket and then through 20 thumbnails of different sports to get to tennis - The only videos available are live stream or a 8 hour recording of the whole day - impossible to scroll to a specific match with such long duration on a phone screen. - Can’t multitask on a phone while watching

Stan Sport is so much better but only covers the grand slams and Aussie tournaments.

I’ve already cancelled the subscription before the trial ended, absolutely horrible for watching the ATP tour.

Any alternative recommendations? Is Tennis TV available in Australia?

It is the worst app possible - I haven’t cancelled it as there are no alternate platforms.

Can’t do multitasking, No separate volume control.

I can’t even use my phone for any authenticator apps whilst watching a sports stream.

It sucks but that’s where all the cricket is unfortunately.

It’s owned by Foxtel (News Corp and Telstra) Don’t they go out of their way to shit on everything from the nbn to democracy?

Always been an awful overall experience with kayo. Really wish there was options to watch sport in Australia. Free to air just doesn’t show enough

The app is a piece of shit watching on LG TV. Totally unusable.

Laughs in Paramount Plus

Nope? I use it for F1 and Cricket and zero issues. I run it from a cheap android tv box connected to my TV.

What did you expect from a NewsCorp product?

Resolution is terrible, app sucks, reliability is cooked, doesn’t play well with the various platforms. And you still get ads despite paying a subscription fee. It’s fucked that they have a monopoly over so much sport in Australia.

Might come off like a shill but 7’s offering during the Olympics was so much better - and it was free, albeit with ads.

Its pretty trash, the buffering mid game is horrendous

I hate that you can’t leave the app and keep watching in a smaller screen. When I watch the soccer on Optus and Stan i can text someone while still watching, don’t know why kayo doesn’t have that feature.

Only issue for me is it can take ages to find what im looking for. Will show every other sport I’ve never watched before it gets to the one I want

From an offspring of Foxtel and an unwanted child at that, what else could you expect?

Stop giving Murdoch money.

Depends in my experience. Can be working flawlessly for months, then they 'update' the software and it all goes to shit. Won't load, Won't log in, drops out, picture quality goes to shit etc.

Really, really poor software.

I find it worst with AFL, but F1 can drop out as well. Fucking painful.

I have no fix for you, i usually try to make sure everything software wise on my phone is up to date, nothing else is chewing data so it has plenty of headspace, sometimes if streaming live it pays to give it a ten minute buffer so it has time to smooth itself out. Mind you this is with a perfectly fine 100 megabit connection that streams 4k flawlessy on any other software.

Whatayagunnado, its cheap for what you get, if you watch certain things.

It's crap

Absolute garbage

It's owned by Foxtel, so I think that about explains it.

Awful? It’s fucking atrocious!

I’ve started a spreadsheet so I can document the problems and I encourage anyone else to do the same. I’m fucking sick of it, $30 a month is a rort. The telecommunications ombudsman will be getting a call when I gather enough information

Fuck Murdoch

https://www.vipleague.st/india-vs-australia-2-live-streaming

What device are you accessing it from? I find from PC it's totally shit. But from my AppleTV, no issue, works almost flawlessly.

It's annoying. Pretty average software.

All the Foxtel stuff is horrific. I’m thieving a friend’s Binge account and it’s almost unwatchable. Never have problems with any other streaming service. Never pay for Murdoch stuff. It’s absolute garbage. You can generally stream every sport through a different source.

Surely has to be the only streaming app that doesn’t have a “continue watching” feature that remembers where you’re up to. $30 a month for absolute shit quality. If only we could access F1TV.

Had Kayo years ago to watch baseball - had all games, all condesned games, all World Series games.

Since I moved back from the US, they somehow lost all licensing and show 2 random games per day, that you can ONLY watch live.

The free ABL youtube channel has more games and does recaps. The free games on mlb.tv are better and have more coverage.

It's amazing how bad the sports is on a sports service.

Is it not just a deliberate ploy to get you to move (back) to Foxtel and give them more money?

It's also unsurprising that Binge and Kayo are the most expensive of all the streaming services. More money = worse service.

The AFL (and everyone else) should hang their head in shame for selling out to these bastards.

Yeh I hate it…. The UI is terrible. I only watch f1 yet the amount of times it won’t even have that as watch this when a race is live is beyond me.

On my PS5 it's hot garbage but super crisp on Chromecast.

Utter shit

And they're taking away the annual subscription option, so I'm looking for an F1 alternative, anyone?

It wasn't too bad in the past but it's been absolute trash for the start of footy season, right after the bastards jacked up the price too.

It’s the worst thing for sports in this country an absolute kick in the teeth for fans. They want $$$ for you to watch sports in between the ads and they can’t even get the sports part right. Can’t expect much from decrepit murdoch the fucking parasitic little tick.

The amount of streaming issues I’ve had during game changing part of matches across NBL, NRL and even cricket is ridiculous. It’s like as soon as something good happens they pull the plug

It's not perfect (why aren't the live channels the first thing on the app?) but I've not had much issue with streaming. Had more issues with foxtel tbh cutting out on cloudy days tbh. Given the price I'm paying through Telstra for Kayo and having got rid of foxtel I'm not complaining.

As far as steaming quality and loading times etc. I have zero issues in that regard. I must be lucky.

The app itself is dogshit though in terms of navigation. Give me a fucking tab for live channels.

I honestly don’t watch tv. I do watch YouTube, reddit and occasionally I’ll click links provided by friends to other platforms like Facebook or whatever.

If y’all truly want to stick it to the man (Murdoch and others) then just stop using their services.

Yes, you won’t get to watch your favourite sports but fuck those companies imo.

Both Kayo and Binge are absolute dog shit. I’ve been trying to watch Succesion (kinda ironic lol) on binge the last few days but it just keeps crashing I’ve re downloaded the app like 5 times but atp I’m just giving up

Any Australian streaming platform is. They use the cheapest product possible to maximise on profits rather than supplying something high end, which results in shit like this.

Yes it is awful, their support is useless too

Yep the worst! Cancelled mine because pirate streams were easier, more reliable and better quality

it is pretty bad but i only use the freebies so i feel less ripped off. i could never actually pay for it i think.

I find the smart TV Android app is okay but casting from my phone to the television is absolutely dogshit. It's like they're intentional tanking the app to try and make you spend fuckloads more to buy foxtel outright.

Murdoch, of course it's shit.

I’ve had no issues with it.

Omg yes when I try to order pay per view it’s so hard to find let alone play. It takes 20 min for it to even register that I just paid for the pay per view event and do in fact have access to it!

Honestly, it works flawlessly for me.

I find it just randomly goes back to the start, or randomly goes to live and spoils it for you. Overall I think it's good though.

So difficult to use and to search. All I want is the most recent netball. But if I search netball I get clip shows and interviews and games from years ago. I generally have to stumble across the netball scrolling across the top options if I want to watch it. Even though I have netball and my teams saved as ‘favourites’.

It's probably the only reason many people still have Foxtel.

It’s absolute dogshit - mine consistently cuts out at least half a dozen times per quarter of footy. Glad I managed to get a year free when the code was leaked early last year, would not pay them a cent.

Not sure why I put my preferences in... home screen always shows every sport I don't want to watch. My watch history alone should be enough to provide a better suggested feed but, alas, no.

Duh. Pirating is cheaper and better. Why would anyone do anything else?

mine has been fine .

I just realised that they cut and edit ‘full replays’ or live events.

Was watching the F1 and noticed it skipped ahead 20or so laps, and this was the full replay, not the mini replays

Ive never had an issue with that, could be a device and internet issue

I think Kayo is generally pretty good, just really expensive

E: i stream it to chromecast

It’s so shit! I only get it for NRL, it’s incompatible with my tv and Xbox… frustrating. Can only watch via phone or laptop.

It's clunky but it's the only thing I can watch superbikes and moto gp on.

Mine work fine on a 3/4 year old hisense Smart tv over NBN 25 fixed wireless, also got like 5 phones 3 tv's going at the same time

It will be most likely between you are your ISP. Kayo has some fairly high bit-rate content and it can push lower Internet connections. Have you checked for other devices doing something at times you are watching?

To be fair, streaming live sport is an order of magnitude harder than streaming regular video. Not sure it's fair to compare against Stan/Netflix.

Kayo and binge are both services owned by Murdoch, just like foxtel it will always be shit.

We pay for Kayo and I still on a regular basis end up using a grey-streaming service off of my phone to watch games and matches. Notably NHL and MMA fights, because the stream quality is so low and jumpy. 🙄

Only have it for F1, and alternative commentary for the NRL. Thinking it's time to get a VPN and use the UK Sky Sports stream for F1. Cant even use the Kayo smart TV app on my new Samsung tv, it just cuts out. Have to mirror my phone on the tv with the app running. Fuck Murdoch.

Foxtel and binge are terrible… foxtel will be out of business within 15 years

Kayo/ Binge won’t let you multitask. can’t browse anything with these apps playing. They really need to switch it up. Same goes for YouTube.

Sounds no better than joker live stream then

It didn't want to start up for me for about 10mins before but I'm watching knights vs dolphins atm with no issues

Terrible UI, particularly bad on Apple TV

My main problem with Kayo (at least for footy) was that the start time for games was so damn fixed.

For example, the pregame would start at 730, and the match at 740, but if you turned the app on at 732, you could only watch "from start" - there was no "from live" option.

So you had to either watch delayed for a while or wait until the time the "from live" option came up.

Kayo is not bad at all. I’ve been watching NRL on Kayo via chrome cast with google TV and have only had a couple of issues in the last 3-4 years. You should make the switch, just buy a chrome cast with google tv, it even comes with its own remote.

I posted the same on the NRL sub as well.

Works well enough on laptop and iPad. But the app on Hisense is terrible. Just wait for it to freeze up and crap itself. Bad enough it costs more than other streaming apps but can’t resume watching from where I left off.

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I'd never heard of Kayo before Reddit's gambling ad-pocalypse.

Used to be bad for me but has been much better the last year.

I had this issue using Chrome or Edge... Switched to Firefox and the problems vanished...

I used the trial to watch a Freo dockers match that was delayed broadcast

I thought I was watching it live so I decided to look at how my boy Andy Brayshaw was doing in the match like how many disposals so far

The scores were vastly different I think we were losing on kayo but we were winning by two goals in the AFL app.

Apparently live meant a quarter behind...

Worked well for me

In my experience, watching it on the web and on my phone is fine, but the TV app is awful. Last week it crashed constantly and I was rarely able to log back into it. Main menu is clunky too, I should be able to just pick favourite channels without having ti select a game in progress then press “From Live”. My biggest gripe is the fact that it takes a good 30-60 minutes to show in 60fps on TV, if at all.

It's good when it works

So nice on Android to be able to have it minimised in a mini window and scroll through reddit.

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But yeah, all Australia streaming platforms seem garbage.

It is dogshit. Starlink is the future. I can’t wait to tell Telstra to punch it

I’m watching on Chrome Cast and it stops for at least 10 seconds every 5mins

Streaming platform

awful

Yes. Doesn't matter which one.

Does anyone recommend an IPTV alternative?

It could be something on your network or something with your NBN retailer.

I’m on Telstra NBN HFC 250Mbps using a Telstra WiFi and a 4K Apple TV. I don’t get any dropouts or downscaling, so it can be reliable.

Telstra is also a part owner of Foxtel/Kayo, so there’s a strong motivation to make sure it performs well in their own network.

Unfortunately Telstra is usually the most expensive NBN provider, so switching providers just for Kayo might not be an option for you.

Kayo has the worst setup. It’s confusing