It would be nice if I could record in the highest quality available, especially with 5.1 audio which is more important to me than 1080p. If the higher quality recording was available I wouldn't need my TiVo anymore.
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John Evans This really needs to happen, it's almost 2019 and still just 720p and stereo only???? This request is #3 on votes and #1 in comments and not even marked as "planned" yet? I'm beginning to think that PlayOn has hit it's limits and those of us that have been loyal over the years may need to look elsewhere for a new solution.
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Jon Yep, I agree and none of this crap where it only plays to the lowest common denominator in the house. Should play on all devices, regardless of whether they are 2.0 or 5.1
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Therosses5 Playon is dead. The quality is so bad. Record to the cloud? Why? The reason for playon was to watch OFFline.
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Paul Chambers I can understand why from a technical standpoint they'd want to do the capture inside a web browser environment that they control entirely. It must be a nightmare to keep their app working in a PC environment across all content providers for every possible combination of HTML engine, operating system version, network configuration, drivers, hardware, etc.
Though as a customer, the whole 'token' business model makes little sense to me. I tried the cloud approach a few times, but it didn't make sense to me. At this point, I'm only using the Windows app occasionally to pull down 'webisodes' that go with a few shows I like. Since these are usually only found on the website for the program (at least until some 'Special Edition Blu-Ray' is eventually released), Playon is perfect for that. They're usually 720p or 480p with stereo audio, so Playon's constraints aren't an issue in that very specific use case.
So neither the Playon app nor cloud service has turned out to be that useful to me. I collect my content by methods that preserve the original video and audio resolution - which matters to me. I had the same gripe with the Tablo DVRs when they downmixed everything to stereo - at least Tablo has addressed that in the most recent firmware.
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BIll Gazaway Yes, please add 5.1 surround.
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Tony DiSalvo How can this request be 3 years old without being even addressed by PlayOn. This product is very underwhelming.
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Andreas Rose Purchased PlayOn in 2016 and there's still no 5.1 support. Could we please get an official statement on this issue?
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Dataseeker Yeah Lets go guys! I accidentally auto renewed on this software, i haven't used it in 6 months because no 5.1 support!!! No 1080p either. Please make this happen some how guys!!!
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