Posted on 09/17/2019 9:29:10 AM PDT by FewsOrange
Who needs a “Plus” or a “Max” when you can use the plumage of a colorful bird? Such is the thinking at NBCUniversal, which announced on Tuesday that its new streaming service would be named Peacock...
When Peacock makes its debut in April, it will join the growing list of new streaming services, including Apple TV Plus (Nov. 1), Disney Plus (Nov. 12) and HBO Max, which is also to start in April...
To compete, Peacock intends to have 15,000 hours of content from its vast library available on both its ad-supported and subscription-based services. Highlights will include complete seasons of “Parks and Recreation,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Cheers,” “Downton Abbey,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Friday Night Lights” and “Frasier.” In June, NBCUniversal paid a reported $500 million to regain the rights to “The Office,” which will become available on Peacock at the start of 2020...
On the film side of Peacock, movies from Universal Pictures, Focus Features and DreamWorks Animation — including “Bridesmaids,” “American Pie,” “Do the Right Thing” and “E.T.” — will be featured. Pricing details for Peacock subscriptions have not been made public...
There will be a reboot of “Battlestar Galactica” from Sam Esmail, the creator of “Mr. Robot,” and a new comedy series called “Rutherford Falls” from Mike Schur, the prolific producer behind “The Good Place,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Office.” Ed Helms, an alumnus of “The Office,” will star. Reboots of “Saved by the Bell” and “Punky Brewster” are also in the works. A documentary series from Lorne Michaels called “Who Wrote That” will feature some of the most memorable moments from “Saturday Night Live” and discuss the writers responsible. All 44 seasons of “Saturday Night Live” will be available on Peacock, with Season 45 coming on once it completes its run on NBC...
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Cable is imminently dead.
This is how one un-bundles their package.
Next up, NBA, NFL and MLB with their own streaming. No blackouts. And National News channels.
My 100mbs internet is $50, Amazon Prime with HBO added is about $15 and Netflix is $12-15 (somewhere).
I would buy the internet service anyway.
So I’m spending about $30/month for shows I actually WATCH instead of $150 for 2046 channels with nothing on.
I would subscribe to a “News Channel” that let me select from all the big one’s and an MLB TV that let me select my blacked out Giants (doing radio for now).
I would also subscribe to a Metropolitan Opera Channel and a Symphony Channel (Ideally NY Phil).
So, they MIGHT be able to get me up to $75/month if they offer everything I want.
But I will never again pay for 2046 channels with nothing on. Never.
Yes!
Gritty, great scenes of NYC from the late ‘40’s.
Well first, those clips are decades old, second, they can be found on you tube.
The female “peafowl” is a peahen.
Or a Peac=*t.
The ‘cock will be huge.
I would watch the old black and white cop show, but it has so many ads on the Roku channel, it makes it into an hour show. And they cut in for five minute breaks in the middle of dialogue.
“I’d skip it unless there’s a free ad-supported service in the wings.”
I refuse to watch any show that has ads that can’t be skipped ... my time is too valuable to waste on extremely stupid ads trying to sell me crap I’d never buy anyway ...
So based on this week, will the SNL clips only be PC?
I can’t sit through commercial TV any more.
Either the ads break up the flow of the show, or the show is written around the ads. Can’t stand either.
If something sounds good, I’ll wait to see a non-broadcast version.
They should just call it the Reboot Channel.
Yep - keeps locking up when I tried to use it on my Firestick...and their system screwed the pooch as I tried to register - left me in limbo.
Understood, but I was talking more about the Roku in general.
I have TVs, that, on their own, have wireless and can play Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix, as well as Youtube.
Some would say, “That’s all you need.”
But I got the Roku to watch those thousands of channels they spoke of. At first, most of them were free, except for Netflix-like commercials being embedded (sometimes at the worst times in a movie or show) but you still had massive free choices.
So if you have Amazon Prime, that’s $8.99 a month; Hulu is $7.99 a month, and Netflix (HD) is $10.99 a month.
Now, more and more of them are charging streaming fees. So if you get Curiosity Stream, that’s $5 per month; HBO GO/NOW for $15 a month, ESPN, $5, VrV, $10; PBS, which requires you to be a donor to watch more than excerpts, and a bunch of channels now require you to already be a cable TV subscriber or not watch them at all.
What this has done for me is I hardly ever watch TV in any format any longer. I still pay because my live-in-the-house-adult kids want it, and they have to pay me to keep them going, or I cancel them.
Put Kodi on your streaming device and load any of scores of aggregation resources and every bit of content becomes available - no extra charge.
I NEVER USE A VOICE REMOTE. NEVER. NEVER. NEVER.
When I bought a a new PC, it tried to 'entice me to use the 'puta bitch' to set up my new PC.
I declined and the PC shut down, automatically.
I returned the PC to Dell for a full refund.
No further buys from Dell.
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