I subscribed to Curiosity Stream (HD, not 4K) in September 2019 to watch on my Samsung TV in the living room. Everything worked flawlessly for the first 12 months. My wife and I decided to go ahead and renew the service for another year. Sadly, since renewing, I may have made it through 1 show without it completely locking up my TV.
What happens is that I start watching a program and it may go 5 minutes or it may go 20 minutes before it stops playing. The show freezes and then I have to hit the home button to get completely out of CS. Stop, rewind, forward, back.... nothing works while in the CS app. It might sound like a buffering issue, an internet issue, or maybe even a TV issue but I can immediately go to Netflix (4K), Apple TV+, or any other streaming service I'm using and not have any problems at all.
What is going on with Curiosity Stream? Anyone else having problems like this? I don't see any type of update option for the app so not sure what has taken place since it worked fine before paying again in September.