Matt Burns
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Device: nVidia ShieldTV Pro tl;dr: Works great -- as long as you disable any adblockers first. Just like the Amazon Prime Video app, this app may hang on the splash screen and display a connection error if you're using anything that blocks ads on your device, whether directly or indirectly. If you're using any kind of privacy or adblocking app, or a VPN or DNS service with any kind of content filtering (including for non-adblocking purposes such as parental controls), this app may simply not work until you disable those things on your device. I'm using this app on an NVidia ShieldTV Pro, and it works just fine -- once I disable Blokada and make sure I'm not connected to my VPN service (or at least that I have certain options disabled). This, of course, means that I'll end up using the app far less than if I didn't have to take those additional steps (or else run into the error message because I forgot to do so). But the same is true for Amazon Prime Video, and I actually pay for a subscription to that while IMDbTV is free. That said, the app is definitely useful for cord-cutters. Most of the available movies are B-listers, but a lot of decent tv series are included, especially older ones. This is probably an app you open when you don't want to watch anything in particular, but there's a lot of good (if older) content available, and for free (but with ads, of course). So even with the annoying incompatibility with certain adblocking and privacy apps/services, I'd still recommend it as another tool in the cordcutter's toolbox.
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NVIDIA SHIELD TV obviously doesn’t test any apps before they jump over themselves wetting their loins over an app that sits on a IMDB TV screen for about 5 minutes then gets an ‘internet connectivity problem’. Users and their devices are not your beta testers.
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