Topic: TVii: Is this trash, or am I doing it wrong?

[ejamer]

First some admissions:
* I can't get it set up properly. No combination or provider and channel package seems to show an accurate portrayal of our satellite set-up (despite there only being two real options available in our area).
* I haven't been keen enough to spend much time on figuring out why it's worthwhile given the configuration issues.


With that out of the way, I have a really hard time understanding what value TVii is supposed to provide.  It feels like a feature that only benefits some users, yet is pushed into a premium position on the gamepad for everyone and can't be hidden or removed (as far as I've seen).


Are any of you using this feature? Is it actually really cool and I've just missed the point?
 

[BranDonk Kong]

It's a poorly executed good idea. Microsoft basically perfected it with the OneGuide, but you need XBL Gold (to do just about anything on that thing).

[ShyGuy]

It's kind of like Twitter in that you can live tweet shows. Also it's probably handy if you had Netflix, Hulu, Cable and Amazon. You can do a unified search.

[Phil]

I have no idea how to even work the thing.

[pokepal148]

It's both,

I have no idea how to even work the thing.

[ejamer]

It's kind of like Twitter in that you can live tweet shows. Also it's probably handy if you had Netflix, Hulu, Cable and Amazon. You can do a unified search.

Out of curiosity, is that from experience of a theoretical statement? 
I mean, do you actually use TVii to search across multiple sources and find that a worthwhile feature?

[pokepal148]

It's both,

I have no idea how to even work the thing.

[Ceric]

The most fun I have had with it is being able to tweet out parts of the Antique Road Show.  For sports it can also be in interesting company.  Unfortunately, Nintendo took this great concept and made the UI for it so poor and unresponsive that its a pain to really use like you should be able to.

Which is a shame.  They seem to have all the info you would need to do this right but they just didn't.

[Phil]

Yes, from the very little I've experienced, I really didn't like the interface of it. At all.

[Nile Boogie Returns]

The idea is great, the ui is trash. It's one of those things that if the install base was larger this would have long been addressed. Also Panorama Video falls under the same situation.

[BlackNMild2k1]

The response time to almost everything in the app is too slow to be useful, and as with just about anything regarding the Wii U, it's a half baked concept that has much more potential than what we ultimately received.

I'm hoping that with the next console Nintendo realizes that the game has changed and be willing to completely jump in and not do this one foot in/one foot out thing. The console has become an entertainment box, so keep that in mind when you start scaling back features because the game you are currently working on doesn't need all the RAM or the CPU speed your current build has.

[ejamer]

Kind of relieved that I haven't just missed the point with TVii, although disappointed that all impressions posted so far are pretty consistently negative.


I wish Nintendo would let us customize the gamepad screen to hide icons we don't want to see, but doubt that will ever happen judging from the menus on the Wii Mini.  Oh well, at least it's not hard to ignore.

[Mop it up]

I have never used it, and forgot it existed until I saw this.