NFL Thursday Night Football on Prime Video = Unwatchable

[Sonnie]

This is the worst streaming ever here... anyone else seeing this... pitiful. Checked a movie to make sure it looked okay, and it was stellar. Doesn't look like Prime Video is primed for live NFL.

 

[ebrumbaugh]

The first few seconds after I turned on the game on Prime was like that, but it "snapped" in and was great for the entirety of the game.

 

[tripplej]

Hopefully they will be able to fix it for the next upcoming Thursday night game.

In regards to the problems, from usatoday,

"Three key problems presented themselves over the course of the game, according to responses on social media:

1. Volume mixing
2. Audio out of sync with picture
3. Buffering

Several individuals complained about the crowd noise drowning out the studio broadcasters, while the famously loud Arrowhead Stadium crowd couldn't be heard during the broadcast.

Other fans had times throughout the game in which the stream froze, buffered and then continued with a blurry picture. Pausing the stream temporarily and picking the game up live seemed to help. Exiting out of the stream and restarting it also worked."

 

[Sonnie]

Yeah... it did get better after a few minutes. I think they got massive complaints and apparently has some sort of issue going on that had to be fixed.

 

[Todd Anderson]

Wow. That's crazy, Sonnie. It looked amazing in our home. In fact, I told my wife she should come take a peek, because it was the best looking football game I'd ever seen on our TV. Seriously. It was amazing

 

[Sonnie]

Ended up looking pretty good. Angie actually commented on how good it looked. She was reading their facebook page and all the comments... they were getting pounced for the first 15-20 minutes of the game. https://www.facebook.com/PrimeVideo...Tx-cApBXgsRc6u5ZOhcHwFCD6gPF4Ip&__tn__=,O,P-R

 

[Todd Anderson]

I wish regular old HD cable looked that good. Alas, it typically looks like trash.

I’d actually pay more for high quality streaming if it guaranteed 1080p!