beIN SPORTS CONNECT APAC 4+

I watched beIN Sports on Foxtel Aus. and really enjoyed it. Once the channels were removed in mid last year I subscribed to the app. to continue to watch those sports, e.g. WTA and ATP. It is dreadful. Every time I want to watch it on my TV where the app. is loaded, I have to log in again. The TV guide is virtually unusable - you have to scroll through each channel individually - all stations are on screen (TV or device) but only able to look at one; even at the same address, for the price, can only watch on one device at a time, including the TV - other subscription services are more generous; it is slow to load at times, buffers regularly (not a problem with other services); a number of sports, e.g. winter sports, are no longer available; of note, it rarely has updates which are regular for my other streaming apps. which suggests to me that you don’t care. Added to this, the user interface is clunky and not intuitive. Would I recommend it to others. - an emphatic NO.
I will be emailing the WTA and ATP suggesting that once their arrangement with beIN expires they look elsewhere as what is being provided is difficult and expensive to access, given the problems, and is harming their product.

A total waste of time and money. After watching a game from the English Championship during my 7 day free trial, I paid the fee and joined up so that I could watch my newly relegated team play their games this season. That’s what their advertising suggests, but that’s not what they provide. Only a small percentage of the games are available and for $15 a month, that’s a ripoff. That, and the streaming/playback app itself is absolutely pitiful. Join a live game after it’s started and you don’t have the option to play from the beginning, you’re given no choice but to watch it live. There’s no rewind, no ten seconds back or forward, it lags, it’s constantly buffering and freezing and, if you decide, as I did, to give up and just watch the highlights the next day, you can’t even do that. It’s the whole game or nothing and, don’t forget, you can’t skip forward or even jump forward five or ten minutes or so, it really is THE WHOLE GAME OR NOTHING 😡🙄 So, its nothing. I’m out. (Now I’m finding that canceling my subscription is almost as difficult 😡😡🤬)

BeIn has great content at a fair price I reckon but the Apple TV app is an absolute car crash!
Takes an age to load, like over ten seconds sometimes? In 2024 on TViOS17.2? Lazy!
Response is sluggish (and that’s being generous) with it taking up to 5 seconds sometimes to actually do what you are asking, like simply moving between menu options or scrolling down through items on a page. You have no idea whether it’s registered your menu moves or not until it suddenly bursts into a frenzy of activity trying to catch up on half a dozen requests.
If you watch anything on the app and have to quit during playback and come back to it later there is no continue watching where you left off option (that’s a pretty basic function!).
Scrubbing backwards or forwards is horrible as well.
Also it randomly signs me out of my account and I have to keep signing back in.
So all in all another company that knows it has you hostage due to the great content and price but has no interest in making the user experience anything remotely appealing.
Shame as a bit of effort with the app UI and it would have been 4 or 5 stars but using this is an absolute joke.