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> Every single sport can be watched on Peacock, which is free to me and only $5/month for people without Comcast. Something like this exists in most countries.

> Every single sport can be watched on Peacock, which is free to me and only $5/month for people without Comcast. Something like this exists in most countries. However, what you watch has forced commercial breaks -- and if you fast forward over a large section past a commercial break you must watch it -- and you can't really fast forward, only seek around. Dude, pay the $10 for one month for ad-free Peacock. It's worth it, and much better than the author's alternative.

mhb 5y ago
Yes, but it's pretty lame that they substitute a static screen that lasts as long as the ads in the place of the ads. It would be much nicer if they excised them.
- ChicagoBoy11 5y ago
  Ooof and the ones that do this coupled with some usually-obnoxious but always-repeating song deserve a special place in hell. I was so pleasantly surprised when I got YouTube TV when some ad-less spots were just substituted by a tranquil nature scene (a movie clip, so you were still sure that it wasn't frozen) and no music at all.
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bradtemp 5y ago
My error. I thought I had the premium service as an Xfinity customer, and the ads were just showing up because these were sports recorded live. I definitely would have done that knowing. Well, almost definitely. Streaming DVR is just a shadow of what local disk DVR is. I can seek instantly at distances I configure. I can fast forward and see what's happening. I can do 3x fast forward that's perfectly smooth, and 2x fast forward with pitch adjusted audio -- that's so nice for a lot of sports or for boring sections of certain sports. So commercial free Peacock would only get so far, and downloading the stream and playing it locally is still better. If you do it right, you can even do standard DVR -- watch the stream while it is downloading, so you are only a short distance behind live, and avoid spoilers.

mhb 5y ago

Yes, but it's pretty lame that they substitute a static screen that lasts as long as the ads in the place of the ads. It would be much nicer if they excised them.

ChicagoBoy11 5y ago
Ooof and the ones that do this coupled with some usually-obnoxious but always-repeating song deserve a special place in hell. I was so pleasantly surprised when I got YouTube TV when some ad-less spots were just substituted by a tranquil nature scene (a movie clip, so you were still sure that it wasn't frozen) and no music at all.

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bradtemp 5y ago

My error. I thought I had the premium service as an Xfinity customer, and the ads were just showing up because these were sports recorded live. I definitely would have done that knowing. Well, almost definitely. Streaming DVR is just a shadow of what local disk DVR is. I can seek instantly at distances I configure. I can fast forward and see what's happening. I can do 3x fast forward that's perfectly smooth, and 2x fast forward with pitch adjusted audio -- that's so nice for a lot of sports or for boring sections of certain sports. So commercial free Peacock would only get so far, and downloading the stream and playing it locally is still better. If you do it right, you can even do standard DVR -- watch the stream while it is downloading, so you are only a short distance behind live, and avoid spoilers.