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Jul 15, 2020 16:43
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bull3964 posted:They also have yet to launch their Android or Android TV app and are "working on it." I was able to download Peacock on my phone? Got the free 3 months of premium as well with it.
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Jul 15, 2020 16:50
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Photex posted:I was able to download Peacock on my phone? Got the free 3 months of premium as well with it. The app finally went live. And it doesn't appear that there's 5.1 sound support. What.A.loving.Joke. You do not launch a paid premium streaming service in 2020 without Dolby Digital Plus streaming.
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Jul 15, 2020 16:53
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bull3964 posted:The app finally went live. agreed, it's VERY underwhelming. They don't have any of the back catalog of Chicago Fire/PD/Med edit: saving grace for me might be Top Chef
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Jul 15, 2020 16:55
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Even on the no-ads plan, you get 15 second preroll for other shows on the service. I'm already subscribing to the service, I don't need to see ads to get me to subscribe to the service. Everything I would have expected from Comcast sadly.
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Jul 15, 2020 16:57
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bull3964 posted:Even on the no-ads plan, you get 15 second preroll for other shows on the service. I'm already subscribing to the service, I don't need to see ads to get me to subscribe to the service. I mean, this isn't exactly unique to Peacock. Amazon already does this, and I've definitely seen it on HBO Max and maybe CBS All Access too. Netflix seems to be the only ones that reliably don't do this. bull3964 posted:And it doesn't appear that there's 5.1 sound support. What.A.loving.Joke. You do not launch a paid premium streaming service in 2020 without Dolby Digital Plus streaming. Hulu still doesn't have 5.1 support on the AppleTV app. I had to watch Palm Springs in stereo like a loving CAVEMAN. OldSenileGuy fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Jul 15, 2020 17:23
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OldSenileGuy posted:I mean, this isn't exactly unique to Peacock. Amazon already does this, and I've definitely seen it on HBO Max and maybe CBS All Access too. Netflix seems to be the only ones that reliably don't do this. The implementation here is especially annoying because it's not baked into the stream like it is in the other platforms. So, you have to wait for it to start, you get the ad countdown, then when it finishes you have to wait for the program stream to start. I'm not a fan of the pre-rolls on other services either, so I'm going to call them out when I see them. OldSenileGuy posted:
That's an AppleTV issue though. 5.1 support is there on enough non-apple devices for Hulu. Chromecast, AndroidTV, Roku, and WebOS all have 5.1 support on Hulu. Peacock just flat out doesn't offer it and that's unacceptable in 2020.
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Jul 15, 2020 17:29
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Iron Crowned posted:Peacock doesn't have Roku support Yep! Launch a new streaming platform that doesn't support arguably the most widespread of streaming devices? Makes perfect sense!
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Jul 15, 2020 17:39
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Grant DaNasty posted:lots and lots of shows that I couldn't give 2 shits about Out of all of this, the only things I could bring myself to watch are: “Saturday Night Live,” “The Johnny Carson Show,” “The Carol Burnett Show,” “Hell’s Kitchen,” select events from the upcoming Tokyo and Beijing Olympics. (yeah loving right, I'll believe it when I see it) “Superstore,” They sure peacocked it up on this whole thing. That should be their slogan. I would expect nothing less from Comcast. Who is probably reading this comment right now as I am sending it. If anything what they have shown is that media companies don't know poo poo about what consumers want and they are willing to spend a billion dollars to fail at it, meanwhile they could just ask and be told that what people want is the noise and bullshit stripped out, and when they say "no ads" they want no ads. There is no way I am paying anything to watch ads. That's the whole point of paying for it, is it not? That's why i've had a TiVo since 2001.
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otter posted:That's why i've had a TiVo since 2001. Don't look now, but TiVo has started implementing pre-roll ads on recordings.
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Jul 15, 2020 17:54
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I was kind of excited for a decent adaptation of Brave New World but holy crap the trailer makes it look worse than Westworld.
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Jul 15, 2020 18:00
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Hm, I can't figure out how to log in with my parents' Xfinity information. I tried making an account and then linking it to my parents' Xfinity account, but it told me that Xfinity account was already linked to a Peacock subscription. Since there's exactly zero chance my parents have signed up for Peacock, I thought maybe I just needed to sign into Peacock directly with their Xfinity credentials. Still no go. Perhaps I will not be watching anything on Peacock.
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Jul 15, 2020 18:07
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bull3964 posted:Perhaps they should have waited to launch until they actually had streaming rights back to their universal catalog? Yeah this. There's a TON of content they had to have purchased Netflix style.
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Jul 15, 2020 18:20
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bull3964 posted:Don't look now, but TiVo has started implementing pre-roll ads on recordings. Weird. I haven't seen that. I wonder if it's on the "streaming" items that come up in the season passes. The TV industry is a bunch of greasy whores and until they start to deliver what people want, they will continue to go outside the "allowed" channels to obtain content. Don't even get me started on sports blackout rules. The only reason I even pay for MLB.tv is that we have a thread in which we split it 5 ways. If my team (or any team for that matter) was local it would be a no-go.
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otter posted:The TV industry is a bunch of greasy whores and until they start to deliver what people want, they will continue to go outside the "allowed" channels to obtain content. This statement is incorrect, sex workers give the customer what they want, even the greasy one.
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otter posted:Weird. I haven't seen that. I wonder if it's on the "streaming" items that come up in the season passes. It's if you have the Hydra interface. Tivo isn't content to collect their yearly fee, they are putting paid ads before the stuff you DVR'd to avoid ads. You can skip them, but I cancelled my TiVo service out of principle. I don''t DVR stuff anymore anyways because FiOS TV video quality is bottom barrel trash. I'm basically using my Bolt as a glorified cablecard tuner. Oddly enough, I'm still getting guide data a year later after cancelling, I just can't record anything.
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Iron Crowned posted:Peacock doesn't have Roku support Isn't this Roku's fault, because they want to treat it like a service and take a cut of the subscription fees like when people sign up with billing through Roku
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Jul 15, 2020 20:17
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Sports blackout back home is even worse, you can't broadcast the Premier League in the UK between 2:45 and 5:15pm on a Saturday. i.e. when a ton of games are played. And to get PL coverage in the first place properly you have to pay through the rear end for premium sports channels. It's pretty hilarious how I get better coverage in the US on basic cable than my friends do. e: quote:Foreign matches shown in the United Kingdom are also affected by the blackout; Eleven Sports do not broadcast the first 15 minutes of Italian Serie A matches which kick off at 5pm UK time. Ha! I didn't know about that. At least Eleven Sports show real sport there I guess, rather than that absolutely pointless virtual football thing they do here that zero people care about.
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Jul 15, 2020 20:42
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Found suppose.tv the other day, pretty good way to see what service has what channels you want at the lowest price.
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bull3964 posted:It's if you have the Hydra interface. Oh. Yeah f that noise. I refuse to let them put that on my device.
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Peacock had a channel yesterday streaming Greatest American Hero for a few hours at least. Sold.  Seriously though, I don't think I've ever seen it on a non ShoutTV platform.  And for those of you who do want the three months free from Google, make sure you sign up on an Android or AndroidTV device. I did it originally on my laptop but didn't get a code. I deleted the app. I then downloaded it again, tried again with another email directly on the Shield and I got the code for 90 free days today (it was in spam but it still was there).
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well, we're doing it. Comcast internet but cable TV is gonna be cut. Currently have Prime, Hulu, and Netflix. Are any of the built-in "free" apps on the Roku actually good? Or are they all filled with ads and upsells?
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pmchem posted:well, we're doing it. Comcast internet but cable TV is gonna be cut. Currently have Prime, Hulu, and Netflix. Pluto is actually decent, it's got ads but the selection is by far the best for free.
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pmchem posted:well, we're doing it. Comcast internet but cable TV is gonna be cut. Currently have Prime, Hulu, and Netflix. Pluto and YouTube are required. Roku Channel rotates decent big-name movies in and out every month, so that's worth checking out. NewsON has local news (live and on-demand) for many markets.
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Photex posted:Pluto is actually decent, it's got ads but the selection is by far the best for free. Pluto and Tubi are great. Pluto just added a Star Trek channel. Tubi has a great collection of b-movies, drive-in movies, grind house, exploitation, direct to video 80's trash, sleaze, etc, all the good poo poo.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Tubi has a great collection of b-movies, drive-in movies, grind house, exploitation, direct to video 80's trash, sleaze, etc, all the good poo poo. I think the weirdest "scraping the barrel" thing I found was Roku Channel having every episode of Joan Rivers' daytime talk show from circa-1992. Really good guests - she did an entire episode with Richard Pryor. Might have been his last interview before the MS robbed him of speech.
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I just got a 3.5 minute unskippable ad on a premium PeacockTV account before a movie, this poo poo is trash.
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Jul 18, 2020 04:37
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OSI 74 is the best Roku Channel
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Photex posted:I just got a 3.5 minute unskippable ad on a premium PeacockTV account before a movie, this poo poo is trash. lol what was the ad for?
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Jul 18, 2020 08:48
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jabro posted:lol what was the ad for? PeacockTV
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Jul 18, 2020 08:55
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Traditional ads, it was a progressive auto ad and something else then a peacock ad
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Not sure where to ask this but it is part of trying to get my parents off their cable. Things like Netflix and Hulu have profiles so different people in the same house can have their own watchlists and such. Amazon Prime video does not seem to have this as far as I can tell that will work on a Roku TV. The only thing I can find is the Amazon Household, which has a limit of 2 adults which look to share the whole account including payment methods.
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Amazon introduced profiles a week ago or so. They popped up on my Roku player so not sure if the Roku TVs are the same
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CampingCarl posted:Not sure where to ask this but it is part of trying to get my parents off their cable. Things like Netflix and Hulu have profiles so different people in the same house can have their own watchlists and such. Amazon Prime video does not seem to have this as far as I can tell that will work on a Roku TV. The only thing I can find is the Amazon Household, which has a limit of 2 adults which look to share the whole account including payment methods. They just introduced profiles the other day. I have prime video on my Roku TV and it supports it. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/7/21315370/amazon-prime-video-user-profiles-kids-household-wallet-sharing
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I wish there was a website that kept an up-to-date database of the streaming quality of all the different streaming options out there. For example, I just started watching Doom Patrol on HBO Max. I liked it enough that I signed up for a month of DC Universe so I could watch it in HDR. However, despite being in HDR, the stream seems much lower quality on DC Universe. I don't know if it's a bitrate thing, or if DCU is streaming HD while HBOMax is streaming 4k, or what, but I definitely see a noticeable dip in video quality on DCU. I guess what I'd really like is for some kind of "stream metadata viewer" that could tell me, among other things, the bitrate and resolution of the video I'm currently streaming to be built directly into tvOS on the AppleTV, but I won't hold my breath for that.
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DCU is actually streaming 4k while HBO Max is only HD. However, I've found HBO Max to be very high quality. They upped the bitrate significantly when they switched over from HBO Now. I'm not the only one that noticed either. https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1590578825
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OldSenileGuy posted:I wish there was a website that kept an up-to-date database of the streaming quality of all the different streaming options out there. For example, I just started watching Doom Patrol on HBO Max. I liked it enough that I signed up for a month of DC Universe so I could watch it in HDR. However, despite being in HDR, the stream seems much lower quality on DC Universe. I don't know if it's a bitrate thing, or if DCU is streaming HD while HBOMax is streaming 4k, or what, but I definitely see a noticeable dip in video quality on DCU. I agree about your last point and it feels like someone needs to hold these peoples feet to the fire with this stuff. I know exactly what you mean and it’s incredibly frustrating especially for stuff we are paying a premium for.
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bull3964 posted:DCU is actually streaming 4k while HBO Max is only HD. However, I've found HBO Max to be very high quality. They upped the bitrate significantly when they switched over from HBO Now. I'm not the only one that noticed either. I saw online that DCU was 4K, but on the splash page for Doom Patrol it just says "HD 5.1". I looked around to see if maybe DCU does the same batshit stupid thing that Amazon does where they have separate listings for the HD and UHD versions of the show, but I didn't find any so I assume it's just a labeling error. But this brings me back to my initial complaint of not having an easy way to view stream metadata info on ATV. From following your link I found out that there actually is a way to view the information, but it's buried deep in the settings and not something I can easily toggle on and off while viewing.
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Burden posted:They just introduced profiles the other day. I have prime video on my Roku TV and it supports it. Depending on if that eventually gets fixed, a possible workaround I see is making additional Amazon Household accounts as teens. Does anyone happen to know if there would be problems with that?
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