JIO Cinema hot take.
I know JIO Cinema has a great engineering team and lots of money but i really don't like the product. UI feels cluttered, livestream also feels pixalated anyone else feels the same. I really liked hotstar honestly and i was expecting jiocinema would be same as the tech team is pretty much same.
Hot take. Who says their team is that great. It's all indian developers with more focus on big terms and less substance.
Shitposter
Stealth
a year ago
Maybe they are not good and i am just delusional
Pixeldynamic
Stealth
a year ago
I believe it's more so a company culture issue. If the management probably wants features to be delivered in a short deadline even if the quality suffers, that's what happens
Also their culture to me seems to be more oriented for cashgrab than user experience. It took Netflix many years before they went to the deliver ads bandwagon. Jiocinema implemented it right from the start.
Netflix has tech Blogs because they work on leading edge work for search engine, recommendation system, in house tools for development. Innovation brings about new inventions, not pure greed. Jiocinema strategy is same as Jio: play on initial low cost, buy out the dying or non existent competition and then make everyone used to Jio Platform. EU or American like regulatory would have warned them already of monopolistic practices but here we are
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Agreed, It’s like they are not even trying. Their app on Android TV is the worse, barely works
Shitposter
Stealth
a year ago
That 18+ popup is so annoying man and sometime it goes for a infinite reload in the android tv. I mean i absolutely don't care about 10 camera angles for a cricket match instead they should do the basic right.
Pixeldynamic
Stealth
a year ago
As a person who has done work of working with webcams, screen recording and combined streams with WebRTC, they are making a stupid mistake of not delaying the actual stream playback before the 18+ window or returning a promise. That button probably changes a variable to be true which allows actual playback
So when the stream arrives before the window, that variable is false which triggers the infinite loader
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Can drop many names but wont do but there's an xyz group made by NRI A and helped by Jio cinema employee B they basically take people who does some ass licking over there and they get good referals ( cant say how how the interview is done as I am no one to judge anyone's standards or potential)
UI is cluttered - yes, they really need to improve on that front
But with live streams, I feel they did super well with the quality during the World Cup. Hotstar never nailed 4K live streams.
Agree. Even for IPL they overcame the initial hiccups super fast. Good streaming experience, but app still looks like a hot mess.
Shitposter
Stealth
a year ago
Not sure how true is their 4k because yesterday india vs Australia match quality was very pixalated although my internet was absolutely fine.
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MightyLazyGeekStar
Stealth
a year ago
Indian cos matlab only about dhanda
hidden_human_being
Stealth
a year ago
What's the salary range in JIO?
Honestly? Worst OTT app for Android TV. I have no idea how the product/tech teams are okay with such glaring issues. On top of that, when talking to their product, it feels like they're gonna change the OTT landscape with their product.
asif
Stealth
a year ago
Does not support landscape view in ipad 🤮
HopefulTv
Stealth
a year ago
there a lot of hostar folks that are now into Jiocinema and a few more to follow... I am more than certain the experience on the app will soon replicate Hostar...
Seriously. The frauds who joined from hotstar ruin everything. Hotstar became better after they left. Know them since 2-3 companies.
Freya
Stealth
6 months ago
What lot of people don't know is that the same hotstar employees got hired to build jiocinema
And hotstar had just done a complete ui overhaul and was looking better than ever.
Jio cinema like you said is nowhere near pixel perfect given the talent they have
Jiocinema is relatively new compared to hotstar. Jiocinema became a serious thing only 1-2 years ago. The product should drastically improve over the next few years
The Android TV app is really bad with so much buffering and getting stuck because of the ads. The ads are not clickable in TV so they could have had hotstar kinda inbuilt ads in livestream rather than loading ads over the stream. The switch between ads and the video/stream is not as swift you expect
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