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Tried to stream “Red Eye” tonight using STV Player. Absolutely awful.
I get as far as opening the first episode but nothing happens, just a black screen.

Why can’t we just watch these things on ITV X in Scotland? STV Player is not delivering and if I was an advertiser, I would be looking elsewhere.

STV player is not fit for purpose. I cannot download the app to my tv and I cannot stream content to my tv. If I could give it zero stars, I would. Are these reviews even read by STV executives? The rating is so poor yet it seems nothing is done about it.

I’ve set up a subscription to STV+ but I’ve wasted my money. It has made no difference to the vast number of ads on catch-up. I’ve followed advice given by support but nothing changes. I feel I’ve been robbed!

Poor quality picture and sound on stv player.

Truly scandalous that Scotland had to use the worst streaming app on the planet. STV should be ashamed of themselves for asking their customers to use such a poor product. Their own standards and ambitions are clearly extremely low and projects a "we really don't care" attitude. Pity you can't give negative ratings

We wanted to watch Betrayal on STV but after 3 episodes and a deluge of adverts we decided to try the subscription version however, there were ads for McDonalds. It’s either ad free or it isn’t!
There are too many good streaming services available to waste our time on this one.

So frustrating. Keeps freezing, replays the adverts over again. Won't restart from where it left off. This has been a problem for years with no attempt to sort it out. I don't understand why we can't get itvx just because we are in Scotland. The same adverts over and over again. Just a nightmare.

So I pay for ITVX now I am expected to pay for STV.
Living in Scotland is like living in an expensive third rate hotel.

The absolute channel for catchup TV. I have signed in so many times and trying to rewind if you miss something nightmare! Rewind and get punted out and start all over again from the beginning of the episode. You can wind forward but not through the adds. To skip adds you have to pay a premium.
The programs provided are fine it’s just the service that’s rubbish!

Used to be so good loved it for brookside noticed maybe 6,7 weeks ago it had been updated with a new look since then disaster won't remember place on series or continue watching crashes with various bugs several times an episode.
Won't let me install the app on another TV by not letting me log in ,absolute waste of time ,given the dreadful reviews on this forum and the total lack of any response ,I can only assume at. Are fully aware of these issues but simply can't or won't fix them.

I am so angry at having my time wasted by this awful service is. Why any advertiser would wish to use such an awful platform is completely beyond me. STV seems to think that it is acceptable to blast customers with so many adverts for us to then discover that the program being delivered is the program that was broadcast an hour ago,after three attempts I gave up and when to ITV. In the time that it has taken me to write this review it has crashed three times, why would anyone want watch programming on this platform when it is constantly interrupted? Being the good citizen I will be passing this review on to their advertisers. It's only fair that they know how few potential customers they are not reaching using this awful platform.

Terrible! Annoying to watch anything. It kept freezing after ads and every time it reloaded it would give me more ads.

Dreadful Ap...9 adverts and if you rewind you have to watch 9 more..it's terrible.

The ad breaks are so badly timed,The programs break for ads at the most inappropriate times during scenes.

I have to log in to the app over and over again!
I made several complaints and yet it just continues to ask for my email & password. It’s an absolute pain!

StV Player is probably the most frustrating app on a Smart TV. Not really sure why I even try. Its a joke

This is totally unwatchable, disgraceful that they won’t sort it out , unbelievable in this day and age they can’t be bothered to address the issues , plays for 2 minutes at most then goes off , won’t even attempt to watch anymore !!!

Update: If you watch from a browser (Chrome only; everything else seems to be incompatible...) then yo can get to watch the end of the program.
Yea!

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The latest little bug in STV player is to bring up the link to the next episode with a 10 second count down when there is still 6-10 minutes of the program to play.

There appears to be no way of stopping the countdown linking to the next episode... I think I've tried every combination.

Basically, if you can't watch STV live on their schedule then you can't watch it at all.

That is just not acceptable in this age of On-Demand programming.

As so many others have said, the STV player is just a joke....totally and utterly useless. Worse still, they don't seem to care at all and have the worst viewer communications / relations ever. For a company that is supposedly standing proud as the only remaining independent ITV franchise left, it is doing all of its customers the greatest disservice. Never thought I'd hear myself say it but just give it up STV....let us be part of ITV....at least ITVX works flawlessly.

Every big sport event shown on STV player hangs, buffers and crashes without exception. I get this on no other streaming service and I have 1GB fibre and a very high spec setup. I always despair when events are shown and currently trying to watch the Superbowl but it has turned into a joke.