An Open Letter to Channel 4

Dear C4 people,

 

You advertise yourselves as ‘The UK’s Biggest Free Streaming Service’ and there are, undoubtedly, lots of things to access via your website. Not all of it worth watching, it has to be said. (The phrase ‘quantity over quality’ has never seemed more apt.)

Despite this multitude of available programming, I am afraid I shall have to stop watching your products on my laptop, as a repeat problem keeps occurring that I can no longer accept as just ‘one of those things.’

To whit – any time I watch an old episode of an old programme of yours, the stream will be interrupted and the link will be lost and the content will crash, always with some space of time between 2 minutes and 90 seconds left to view. Binge-watching ‘Shameless’ and it’s Goodbye to the Gallaghers prematurely. Giving ‘The West Wing’ a well-deserved repeat airing, and the same thing happens. I never get to the end of an episode, so it’s pointless trying to follow the series.

Funnily enough, it NEVER happens during the ad breaks, which seem to be longer and more frequent than they were when the programmes originally aired.
I would contact you directly about this, but I doubt you care.
I’m not accusing you of doing this deliberately, but as I said – it’s funny how it never happens when the ads are playing…

Yours,
Disgruntled Viewer of Suffolk.

RC 25-5-21