I have figured out a way to make it work fairly consistently for me. I use the phone app to establish the queue that I want to download. That gets the files copied and ready to download during the day. I then used their downloader app on my laptop to schedule the downloads during the bonus time from 2am to 8am. It has served me well
To get captions from Netflix, it was suggested to watch a show with captions on for at least 6 minutes. That sets the expected captions setting. Then when I recorded and downloaded the series, the captions were all there.
Kind of a kluge...but what isn't with HNS. I can't t even email my wife a photo file as I am considered spam. Well I guess they have a point there....
Oh, and as far as the audio lagging, I found that if I pause for a couple of seconds right near the start of the show then the audio synchs up. This has been very repeatable. I have to wait until the audio and video stop struggling and relax...usually in the first 30 seconds. It could be an issue with my Samsung TV reading a cheap USB Memory stick.
From our experience, PlayOn is the only solution that makes this HNS service somewhat useable for streaming. Sad but true.
