Less than a week ago, the long-awaited launch of SkyShowtime in Spain took place. As we already told you in our weekly review of streaming platforms, this new service comes to enrich, even more, an already quite wide offer, with some interesting content proposals and a groundbreaking offer, 2.99 euros per month for life if you hire him during his first two months in our country. After the promotion, its normal price will be 5.99 euros per month, so we are talking about a 50% discount.
The launch of a new service, whatever the type, always It usually has some problems associated with it. that were not detected in its testing phase. It is true that some problems are more surprising than others, since shortly after the rigorous tests have been carried out they should have been quickly identified, cases in which a slap on the wrist corresponds which, however, must be adjusted according to of the speed of response to it.
SkyShowtime has not been an exception in this regard., we have already seen some problems, some of which are not new at all, since we have seen them before on other platforms. Thus, on the negative side, it is a bit surprising to see that the platform has not learned from the launch of other services. On the positive side, they have already responded to them, either by solving them or, at least, acknowledging receipt and stating that they have prioritized providing a solution.
The first of the problems experienced by SkyShowtime users was present during the first hours of operation of the service, despite the fact that it did not seem so at first, and that is the high volume of users who wished to register saturated the company’s servers, preventing all users from carrying out this process. In addition, in some cases and despite using the website, the service did not apply the 50% discount on the subscription price, something that several users have denounced on social networks in recent days.
On the other hand, and in this case I am talking about something that I have experienced personally, there are some synchronization problems between audio and video, which creates a nasty lag. My welcome to the platform is consisting, how could it be otherwise, of a new marathon of The Office, but the experience is not turning out to be as satisfactory as I expected, precisely because of that problem. This one, yes, does not seem to be so widespread, but I have found some messages from other users about it.
However, the most important, and which is also occurring more generally, is the one that affects the synchronization between content and subtitlesmore concretely “some subtitles may be missing, appear in the wrong place on the screen, or be out of sync with the content you’re watching“As we can read on the SkyShowtime help center website. The good news, at this point, is that the company states that they have given priority to this problem, since it affects the accessibility of the platform, so we can expect a solution soon.
