My Prime Video experience on Apple TV in the UK mirrors this. I knew exactly what I wanted to watch but I simply could not figure out how to get the app to show it to me. The search feature returned and endless feed of results, none of which matched.
Let's take a live example tested while writing this comment. I searched for "Stand-up comedy", and I see 9 results on my TV right now:
- The Grand Tour
- The Grand Tour presents: Lochdown
- The Grand Tour (again? must be a different season?)
- The Grand Tour (yes, again)
- The Tomorrow War
- The Office
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
And just for fun, let's list the next 9:
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- Borat 2
- South Park
- South Park (again)
- South Park (again)
It's baffling to me that table-stakes features like this can be completely neglected for a product which is obviously a massive capital investment. I do think I understand now why it is that my friend with Prime Video watches The Office almost all of the time...
Edit: Apparently searching for "stand-up comedy live" or simply "comedy live" does show the type of content the search implies. I'd be keen to have someone explain what non-live stand-up comedy looks like to justify the difference in interpretation. Perhaps they could also tell me about how "stand-up" carries zero usable information...
Not so sure. I accidentally forgot to unsubscribe from the Prime emails way back, so once a week I get an email recommending shows I've already seen. Such as TGT, South Park, the individual presenters from TGT and so on. Oh, and they're also kind enough to remind me about their app...which is the one I'm already using to see their shows...
I'm leaning more towards laziness and lack of creativity.
Let's take a live example tested while writing this comment. I searched for "Stand-up comedy", and I see 9 results on my TV right now:
- The Grand Tour
- The Grand Tour presents: Lochdown
- The Grand Tour (again? must be a different season?)
- The Grand Tour (yes, again)
- The Tomorrow War
- The Office
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
And just for fun, let's list the next 9:
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- The Office (again)
- Borat 2
- South Park
- South Park (again)
- South Park (again)
It's baffling to me that table-stakes features like this can be completely neglected for a product which is obviously a massive capital investment. I do think I understand now why it is that my friend with Prime Video watches The Office almost all of the time...
Edit: Apparently searching for "stand-up comedy live" or simply "comedy live" does show the type of content the search implies. I'd be keen to have someone explain what non-live stand-up comedy looks like to justify the difference in interpretation. Perhaps they could also tell me about how "stand-up" carries zero usable information...