Hearing the nets pop before the ball goes through hoop is an experience

Glad to see this get some light, alot of us experienced this all year.

Glad we get to product test while they charge us a ton across all platforms

Man I’ve thought this was something only I experienced. It drives me crazy.

The entire audio and streaming for Amazon is 2nd rate compared to YouTube 

Or Amazon’s announcers can see into the future?

I didn’t notice the audio issue but I did get a black screen and technical difficulties screen with like 30 seconds left in the heat/hornet game and that was wild.

wow i thought i was going crazy. I would hear ITS GOOD and the ball hasn’t even dropped yet from being in the air

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

During game 1 of their playoff coverage. In OT, in a 1 possession game.

Fucking clown shoes.

The audio would be vastly improved if Amazon hired Eric Collins and Dell Curry to call Hornets games.

Amazon is just a little mom and pop operation like Nintendo

The irony is Amazon via AWS handles most of the back end data streams that make a broadcast stream like this possible.

Can’t pip the desktop video player, so lame. Switched over to a streaming site to watch the game so I could pip it while I worked last night. I’m a paying customer pirating the content, insane.

Every foul in the suns blazers game confused me for this reason, I would hear the whistle before contact

Glad to hear someone with a platform speak on this (maybe others have, I just haven’t heard it).

I know it’s a small detail, but still quite annoying.

I’m honestly relieved to learn it’s not just me. I just assumed it was my internet connection

So fucking jarring

Bill is right on the money this time. I had to mute the audio last night

I don’t understand how its hard to fix. Like the lag seems stable between the footage and the audio. How is there not a way to just delay the audio if the feeds are being misalligned at some point of the signal chain by like .400ms or whatever it is. And now you tell me this issue has been there a FULL YEAR.

The sound being out of sync is horrible, but I can’t get past the oversaturation it’s like watching a video game with the color turned way up - maybe it’s just my iPad but everything is just blown out.

NBA got the money, they don’t care.

Would rather take extra cash than find the right broadcasting steward for their product.

Money. Run. Thats it.

Sad to see the company who was really ahead of the curve in terms of cloud engineering, uptime, and service reliability is shitting the bed by replacing engineers with robots. Shit just ain’t there yet and tbh I was pretty miffed when prime was giving me the blue screen of death during like that last 30 seconds of play time.

So it’s not just my tv lagging the country is dealing with it.

Amazon is a shit company that makes mostly shit products. They cut corners and care more about bottom line profit over quality. It’s not surprising

The bigger crime is putting these games exclusively on a streaming service. Fans watch their team all year and then don’t even get to see what may be their last game(s) of the year. Gross.

However they’re doing the on-court ad graphics also massively degrades the picture quality on the primary shot. Players look glitchy and pixellated, then it cuts to a close up and the picture quality is perfect.

Wait I don’t have Amazon but this happens on illegal streams sometimes and it’s unwatchable. Within 2 minute my brain was reprogrammed to listen while the ball was mid air

Crazy this is a thing. Just tie the video to the audio clock.

Ok so it wasn’t just my feed

A little advanced audio / delayed video (like 0.2s) is pretty standard so that the announcers’ natural reaction times make their big shouts hit at the same time as the event on screen, but Amazon’s got it so cranked up they’re calling good 3’s before the ball is even through the key. It’s mad. 

It lags and the video quality sucks even with a fast connection 

I thought it was just me lol

so do you Bill

Yeah the commentator spoils everyshot, I end up muting the broadcast.

Who are the clowns at Amazon responsible for this stuff? How can I hold them accountable?

Thought I was crazy last night. I’m currently earning my BA so I haven’t been able to watch much basketball all season and last night I finally got to sit down for a couple hours. I kept hearing Ian Eagle call three pointers half way in the air and I just thought he was just that good but then I started hearing the clanks and shit earlier too. Amazon wtf man

Every time I use the amazon app on my TV, there’s always a minute delay compared to my computer

Which sucks because their panel is great. They even have 3 former players.

Yep, I hadn’t watched a single Prime game until the play-ins, and this was the constantly annoying thing for me.

Ruin all the suspense too.

Who here honestly thought Amazon would do a good job. They had someone bedazzle a phone and turn it into a god damn necklace. I’ve never seen a group so lost and confused, when all they need to do is play high quality coverage of the game. That’s it

It’s worse with Whistles. Your brain knows there’s a foul like a split second before it happens on the court because you hear the whistle sound

Hmmm. I have a smart TV with an amazon prime app and it doesn’t have this problem. But if I watch on my computer I do have it.

I also experienced this but Bill takes literally any opportunity to shit on a network.

You know how a shot goes in and you look at the score to see it change? Last night it would go in after the score changed.

Its like a fucking spoiler lmao

Prime basketball looks significantly worse than any other broadcast as well. Every edge looks awful.

Damn this is hilarious. I was watching the Boys this morning and I had to keep refreshing because the audio and video was not in sync.

I work swing getting home when there’s only 20 minutes of broadcast. It won’t let me start the beginning of the game and when it’s over it only plays the Spanish broadcast so I have to wait till the morning for it to fix itself. Happened a few times to me. Frustrating.

wait you’re telling me this isn’t my apple tv not working right? This entire time I thought it was my streaming device fucking up and it drove me mad

I thought it was just me

the audio desyncs every now now and then and you have to reset it to live to fix it

The funniest comment to me that I’ve started to notice is the whole “X billionaire or X company has XXXXXX amount of dollars, why dont they do ______? (which costs more money)”

its not like they became billionaires or massively rich companies and brands by spending the extra dollar, or else amazon wouldnt have eight kajillion dollars, Bill

I mean the others do this too. I really hate how quick the reactions are.

Cause it costs money and Amazon wants a kajillion and one dollars because greed is a disease or whatever

I never said anything because I thought it was from watching shitty illegal streams. How is this the first time this was mentioned anywhere?

Damn I thought it was only me lol it’s very annoying and a little jarring when the commentators are ahead of the game action.

Peacock is so much worse. After just a few minutes the audio and video are completely desynced

they always have some sort of annoying issue. last season the audio on the baseball streams was super low. then the ads super high. annoying af.

I kept fucking around with my TV settings because I thought it was me.

Lmao I fixed this at the start of the year with an audio delay cause I thought it was my TVs settings, and I totally forgot about. I can’t believe it’s Amazon’s fault.

Good thing I ride the high seas

there’s also a lag between my phone and computer during games

Stop supporting the league till they fix the league.

Just go to settings and turn off observation haki

Youtube was sooo much better. I hate how when I select a game that I want to watch from beginning it starts auto playing in the window in real time before I can make my selection and it shows the damn score. Fast forwarding also sucks. I could still see the video on Youtube instead of having to guess with Amazon. 

I just noticed that last night during the blazers game for the first time. had no idea it was going on all year

This is so easy to fix. Every time it goes to commercial you just have to back out and go back into the video.

Yeah its ass but it works lol

ESPN does this on all tennis coverage. The commentators react to a winner before you can see it. It’s incredibly annoying. I think it’s to make the commentators sound more clued in to the match? I hate it.

Never had this issue, and I’m an NBA fanatic.

This has also been happening with most ESPN games since the pandemic hit.

The sound was pretty terrible watching the hornets game. I could barely hear the commentators over the crowd noise.

Thank you BS! This is so true and so cray.

I thought I was going crazy with this

Why is everyone shitting on Amazon now? They had a couple Snafus, but overall they’ve had a great product.

Unfortunately I think streaming will just lead to the product getting more and more shit, there’s no real competition with how the streaming contracts are given out. Prices will go up though, so no worries there!

Does anyone else experience messed-up colors in the Detroit games they watch on Amazon?

I thought this was just the site I was using yesterday, lmao that’s hilarious glad I didn’t pay for that crap quality.

I thought it was just my pirate stream holy shit I’m glad I’m not going crazy

I notice when streaming the words get ahead of the people every now and then and it’s not just Amazon. I just stop it and restart and it fixes itself.

I was noticing this in the play-in games, I thought it was just my stream. the swish being out of sync with the bucket was the worst. this has been happening all year? literally unacceptable. I couldn’t imagine paying for that service

Dang, I thought I could hear the future 😲

Is it just me or is there not even a jump-to-live button?

It was not too bad honestly when streamed from the NBA app via prime subscription

Another issue is the volume when you put your headphones is absolutely way low. I have my volume on max on my iphone and I can barely hear the announcers. And this is an AMZN issue because all my other audio sounds fine(Youtube, NFLX, Lakers broadcasts on nba.com, music, etc). It’s just the Prime games. It’s pretty annoying I’m trying to watch a game when I’m on a treadmill and it’s a poor experience with AMZN.

Adam Silver responds…… 🦗

Hm I always thought it was “gajillion” not “kajillion”

Am I crazy but hasn’t this been happening on ESPN as well? I’ve been hearing slightly off audio on ESPN broadcasts for months as well. Is it just me?

Basically my only complaint for Amazon games.

Thought I was the only one