Recently, I tried looking for Breaking Bad on Philo and CANNOT find it, has it been removed?

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

I just signed up for a Philo trial and noticed that Season 18 of House Hunters Renovations is missing most of the recent episodes. I can link my Philo account through the HGTV website and watch, but not as video-on-demand (VOD) on my TV. Unfortunately, I almost never watch any TV content on a small screen, so this isn't really an acceptable workaround.

Before signing up for Philo, I learned that History Channel and Discovery+ subscriptions will not allow the most current episodes to stream except to customers who can also link a TV provider such as a cable company or a more comprehensive cable-like streaming provider such as DirecTV Stream. I had hoped to avoid this same sort of issue by subscribing to Philo.

For existing Philo subscribers is it uncommon or common to find the current season episodes are not added right away? How long does one generally have to wait past the "live" air date for those episodes to appear?

My only prior experience with streaming is via DirectTV. They do not limit anything in the VOD libraries for DirectTV Stream subscribers. However, they have raised their prices too many times so I'm looking for an alternative with VOD access to all current seasons of History and Discovery Network channels. If Philo isn't going to make current-season content available right away, what are the alternatives?

I've gone through the entire guide, and it looks like the Cinevault channels are all gone. I've been a paid subscriber for coming up on a year now, and Cinevault: Classics has been one of my favorite channels. Are these channels likely to return soon?

Is it within the TOS to allow a friend have access to my Philo TV account? I really want them to watch FROM.

I signed up a few weeks ago for the start of Yellowstone and figured I would catch up on seasons of other shows. I made it through most of season 3 of Breaking Bad and then tried to pick up where I left off and now I get "No showings available. Save this show to record future airings." All the seasons were there when I started. What happened?

Dear Philo,

Why have you changed the app again so it auto-plays a totally different show at conclusion than the one I'm currently watching from my DVR? This has happened twice when watching on my iPhone. First time I thought it was a fluke. Second time it kind of made me mad.

Case in point I was watching the newest DVRed episode of "Fear Thy Neighbor". When it finished it automatically started playing "Feuds Turned Fatal". Both are ID channel shows which I have saved but did not plan to watch immediately following the conclusion of the first. The other day I watched a DVRed show from the TLC channel. When it finished it immediately started playing another TLC show which I don't even have saved.

Is this a new feature? If it is I HATE it and there should be a way to turn this off. Like I said I've only seen this behavior so far on the iPhone app. From the included screen shot you can see that it is currently playing "Fear Thy Neighbor" but to the right it is cueing up "Feuds Turned Fatal".

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I have a bunch of episodes of a tv show in Philo. i would like to set it up to play them in recorded order (binge watch)- everything i read on the web says Philo supports autoplay with DVR'd episodes but i can't get it to work. I've tried a firestick MAX, roku 3, firefox pc and chrome pc. what am i doing wrong ? Thanks for your help

I have shows on ID and TLC set as saved tonight, yet none of them show as recorded even though they have already aired this evening. All I see is they are scheduled for later in the evening (after 11 pm). If I view them in the guide or on the channel, it shows them as aired, but not playable. Kind of defeats the purpose of "Saving" programs.

Edit: It's also the History Channel too. I wanted to watch "The UnXplained Special Presentation S1 | E24 Encountering Evil". Shows it as "Saved", but not recorded. Only shows the future recording at 11 pm. This is just pure nonsense. Maybe it's time to switch providers if you can't make your DVR work. I already hate that it records everything (when it does work) and I have to sift through all the watched stuff just to find the "New" material since it sometimes doesn't put the "New" material in the Saved list. Case in point: People Magazine Investigates recorded 2 new season 8 shows on 10/28/2024, yet neither were marked "New" so neither showed in the "Saved" list. smh

Every time I try to switch to a different profile other than the main one I keep getting booted. I never had to have a different sign in before. Has that changed? I like to set up different profiles during the holidays

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I'm trying to binge watch Air Disasters. Sometimes I have to pause the show to take a phone call. When I go back to the show; it resets back to SE2:E1. I was on episode 8 or 9. It does this all the time. How can I get Philo to remember my position? I'm using a Fire TV Stick. I read that PhiloTV is more suitable for Roku devices. Is that true?

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Can’t find Philip on Samsung app. Any suggestions? TYIA

Hello I just started my trail today I did some research but most posts were old. Coming from years of TiVo I’m used to pausing live tv for 20 min then ff commercials until I catch up to live tv. I already learned you can’t ff thru ads on the live guide. I know if you have the show saved and it’s recording you can. I tested a few episodes earlier and got mixed results. I’m the first time I accidentally played the VOD version. The next time I made sure it was the epsiode currently recording and it seemed to work but then tonite it was back to not allowing me to skip the ad breaks (epsiodes marked as LIVE) until the episode aired completely then was marked DVR. So my question is which way is it intended to work. Can you start a show a few minutes into recording or do you have to wait until it finishes airing. How long does it take to typically show up as recorded and marked DVR? Thanks for any input

Every since the recent update some of my shows don't show the little new tile in the corner to let me know there is a new episode. If I go into a show and look at episodes they are there and have a new tile on them but not on the main saved screen. So basically if I didn't know to look for the new episodes I would not I know they were there. Anybody else have this?

When I logged into Philo TV today on my Amazon Firestick, I was greeted with a message saying that the old avatars were available again. Thank you Philo TV for listening to your customers.

No matter what I have my settings set for and never starts from live partof the program I always starts at the beginning on the TV show on my Roku

On Roku... Selecting a channel through the guide and watching that channel through several TV programs, arrowing down twice to bring up the overlaid guide, programs available remain from when you first began watching that channel. So, if you begin watching a program at 7:00 p.m. and watched several following programs, bringing up that overlay guide will be still back at 7:00 p.m.

The premium channels should take priority over the free channels for the showings kept in the DVR.

With the new channels that play all the same show like America’s Test Kitchen, I’d line the ability to favorite specific episodes so I can go back and watch recipes. With saving on the show level, episodes get lost in the shuffle.

Any channels, fast free or broadcast that we would like to see added?

What additional channel apps does everyone deem imperative sign in with the Philo provider? (Need to access the complete channel archive or programs not available via Philo app)

On the pause screen, you used to be able to press up and immediately restart an episode. Now, the dominant/first option is to UNSAVE. Can that be the very last option? If you accidentally push it ALL of the dvr content is erased. I'd need to unsaved a show significantly less than I'd ever need to restart or skip an episode.

For the umpteenth time tonight, our saved Saturday night showing of Svengoolie on MeTV failed to record. I checked earlier this evening to make sure it was listed as an upcoming episode. In the past month, only one Saturday episode has actually recorded. Why does this happen and what can be done about it?