PlayOnReviews of playon.tv

Struggling to understand negative reviews, unless they're all old? Have used PlayOn for a few weeks now and wish I had discovered it earlier. A few quirks due to be being in Australia and PlayOn services in US, but hasn't held me back. Support, when I've reached out, has been friendly prompt and reliable. Would happily recommend to anyone.

This company will not improve Anyone that entices you to purchase a "lifetime" license then reneges on that promises is garbage

was great when i signed up in 2011 - even went for "lifetime license" - but over time it stopped being a program that allowed my Playstations to access streaming, and move of a "franken-DVR" then they discontinues my liscense even though it was lifetime very shady, STAY AWAY!!!!!

I purchased a "PlayOn Plus Lifetime" license years ago, but the company has since introduced new subscription plans that offer the same features. They replaced the original software with a new version that mimics the old one, yet prevents it from launching on Windows 10/11—even with compatible system tools. Attempting to install the original software on a virtual machine fails because it can't access their servers. This feels deceptive and raises serious legal concerns.

There is ZERO support these days. The service works much of the time even though there are issues that they should fix (i.e. if you loose internet, it cycles through your entire queue with failed download messages instead of pausing recordings). Issue is when a particular channel stops working, there's no support, no notifications, no responses written to their support email... Now going on 10 days with non-functional AppleTV + every other days emails to their support mail ID. So far, their promised 48 hr response messages have resulted in ZERO actual replies. Will be looking for alternatives instead of renewing. Glad I didn't buy a lifetime license - oh wait, I did buy buy until they revoked those for everyone by launching a new service model.

Tried them first a couple of years ago, fsiled many recordings and did not support closed captions as advertised. Tried again recently - fails to record shows available on demand from Pluto TV and customer service 9s virtually nonexistent. A complete waste of money, stay away from them.

I have two Win10 computers. I tried to install Playon.tv on both of them, and with both, got the message that the program requires Windows Media Player 9, which I discovered is no longer supported by Microsoft. I tried finding the old version of WMP and couldn't. In addition, my attempt to install Playon.tv severely messed up BOTH computers, causing me MANY HOURS of wasted time. Youtube videos would play for 59 seconds--and then stop. I finally did a system restore on one computer, and after that, neither Brave nor Chrome would open. At all. I had to download Brave to a flash drive from my second computer and then install it on my first computer. If I hadn't had TWO Win10 computers, I would have been in dire straits. Youtube videos STILL play for 59 seconds and then stop, like it does have a connection. Both computers are still messed up. Why, oh, why didn't I check Trustpilot before I tried to install these horrible programs! I see others have had horrible experience with them, too. PS - I did a system restore on one computer, and the youtube playback problem still exists!

I bought a lifetime pass for PlayOn desktop they will not allow installation on Win11 and the in app browser is too outdated to access Netflix so it’s effectively useless for what I purchased it for. They have done this willfully and I will never purchase from them or anyone affiliated with them again.