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by wtmt 2519 days ago
GP here. I do agree with some of your points. I usually watch content on a TV, and very rarely on a computer or mobile device. On the TV, it's nice to have IMDB ratings that show up on some/many (not all) of the content on Amazon Prime Video. With Netflix I have to look it up separately. Maybe Netflix doesn't like IMDB because that's owned by Amazon, but it could provide Rotten Tomatoes ratings instead, and I'd be happy.

When I do watch things on the TV from a distance, it's important for the content preview images to be large enough and the spacing between rows of content preview images appropriate (fonts and font sizes also matter). On both Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar, I find the preview images and the layout to be cluttered and much smaller than expected. Reading content titles is quite difficult. It gets worse because both Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar have a lot more Indian content, but they tend to display the title transliterated in English while the poster has the title in the original language (which is small). This makes it difficult to read the text in the Indian language's script (transliterated titles can only help to some extent).

Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar also seem to load information on opened shows/movies slower compared to Netflix. I have a fast connection (40Mbps) with almost nothing else going on most of the time. So Netflix is doing something better in these areas.

Of course, like others have mentioned, I hate the Netflix auto-playing trailers for the currently selected show or movie. That's certainly very annoying and a ding on the Netflix UX.