NBC's Peacock will be available on Apple devices at launch
NBC's new television and movie streaming service Peacock will be available on the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV starting July 15.
Peacock is scheduled to launch nationwide on July 15. NBC has announced that the service will be fully integrated with the Apple TV app, allowing customers to tune in on their iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Apple TV 4K, and Apple TV HD. Users will be able to use Siri to easily search for Peacock content as well.
Customers will also be able to sign up for Peacock Free or upgrade to Peacock premium directly within the Peacock iOS App, or on Apple TV using an in-app purchase.
The ad-supported Peacock Premium will sell for $4.99 a month, while an ad-free version will be available for $9.99. Comcast and Cox subscribers can opt into the ad-free model for $5 a month. A free tier with limited content will also be made available.
"Our priority is to bring Peacock's unrivaled collection of content to people across major distributors and device platforms," said Matt Bond, Chairman, Content Distribution, NBCUniversal. "We look forward to bringing Peacock to Apple customers when we launch around the U.S. in July, capitalizing on Apple's incredible reach and connecting with millions of viewers across their devices."
At launch, some 15,000 hours of movies and shows will be available for streaming, including popular programs like "Parks and Recreation," "Law & Order: SVU," "Two and a Half Men" and early access to content from NBC's late-night shows. Movies are also on tap, with the service boasting selections from the media giant's extensive back catalog. NBC also says that live sports will also be made available on the service, which may pay the way for additional live streaming content.
Peacock is scheduled to launch nationwide on July 15. NBC has announced that the service will be fully integrated with the Apple TV app, allowing customers to tune in on their iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Apple TV 4K, and Apple TV HD. Users will be able to use Siri to easily search for Peacock content as well.
Customers will also be able to sign up for Peacock Free or upgrade to Peacock premium directly within the Peacock iOS App, or on Apple TV using an in-app purchase.
The ad-supported Peacock Premium will sell for $4.99 a month, while an ad-free version will be available for $9.99. Comcast and Cox subscribers can opt into the ad-free model for $5 a month. A free tier with limited content will also be made available.
"Our priority is to bring Peacock's unrivaled collection of content to people across major distributors and device platforms," said Matt Bond, Chairman, Content Distribution, NBCUniversal. "We look forward to bringing Peacock to Apple customers when we launch around the U.S. in July, capitalizing on Apple's incredible reach and connecting with millions of viewers across their devices."
At launch, some 15,000 hours of movies and shows will be available for streaming, including popular programs like "Parks and Recreation," "Law & Order: SVU," "Two and a Half Men" and early access to content from NBC's late-night shows. Movies are also on tap, with the service boasting selections from the media giant's extensive back catalog. NBC also says that live sports will also be made available on the service, which may pay the way for additional live streaming content.
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I get most of my TV from my Antenna. Record onto my TIVO Roamio DVR. I can watch that content in the bedrooms on TIVO Mini's. As a Backup, I have a HDHomerun box. It's a little thing with 4 tuners. It's in my Closet with the rest of my Server stuff. You plug in your Antenna, Power and Ethernet. I have it linked to PLEX. So PLEX can record up to 4 shows at once. it will also auto cut out commercials after done recording. It takes time depending on how powerful hardware PLEX is installed onto. So anywhere I can watch Plex I can watch that content also. So on my new 75" Samsung QLED with has PLEX, to AppleTV, or my iPad or iPhone, etc Though I do have a Tivo Stream Box so I can watch my TIVO content on my iOS devices also. The newer TIVO Boxes I guess that kind of streaming is built in.
Then I have Netflix which I had before I cut the cord, so I don't considering it an extra expense, and Amazon Prime, which I had gotten for the free 2nd day shipping, not the TV/Movies that came out later and I still rarely watch content from Amazon. I do watch a ton of YouTube.
I'm not signing up to NBC either, just like I'm not signing up for Disney+ or HBOMax or anything else. Let along SLING or these other Cable channel services, which is just the same old bundle of channels, just paying someone else.
I tried the free month of HULU. I couldn't take it. At the time it was like 4 commercials in a row of 2 Broke Girls. One after the other, all the same. You can't skip them. Can't FF though them. It was so much just to see a hour long show. I watched the 1 show and never used it again that month for anything else.
I was a early TIVO adopter can got my first one in 1999. Even before that, I was recording shows on VHS takes to watch later and skip the commercials. I had 1 VHS player that had Auto Commercial Skip. After it was done recording, it would go though the tape and mark the beginning and end of the commercials, so that when you played the tape it would just FF though the commercials all by it's self. It worked pretty good. So long as you could wait for it to do it's thing in marking the tape. I'm not going to put up with not being able to skip commercials, or the old fashion, channel surfing when the commercials came on in the days before DVR's.
Antenna TV is 100% free. It's the best HD quality over cable let alone satellite. It also had 5.1 Surround Sound. There's also channels like AntennaTV, and MeTV, etc. Where you can see a lot of great older content. If you've never watch it, it would be NEW to you. A lot of stuff I grew up with. All free with just an Antenna. This is how I watch most of my TV. Except it looks better quality, because back then it was Analog, and I'd get some static. These days it's all broadcast Digitally. It's really the BEST deal out there. There are also a lot of choices for an Antenna DVR. Tivo, HDHomerun, Tablo, ChannelMaster DVR+. TIVO is the most expensive. Lifetime service is not cheap!!! Though when I got my Roamio Box, I got it at a great deal at $299 With Lifetime Service. That's CHEAP!!!! The HDHomerun, well that depends what you use it with for a DVR. I already paid for Lifetime with PLEX years ago. So all the Program guide stuff for me is FREE. There's EMBY which is similar to PLEX, but you have to sign up to a 3rd party service for that stuff which is still pretty cheap. I think $25 a year. Tablo, you can pay by month, year or get Lifetime and I think Lifetime is $150 which compared to TIVO is CHEAP. ChannelMaster I believe it's FREE with their DVR+ box.
It's nice to have a DVR so you can watch the shows when you want to watch them, not when their air. I never watch TV LIVE. Even on days when I used to watch Football. I'd record it and let it at least record the first hour, and then start watching, that way I could skip all the commercials. So it was close enough to LIVE.
With so many streaming services now. Because everyone wants their OWN. there's just not going to be enough customers. I'd have to cycle though one of them a month. Wait until the series you like is about over, and then sign up for the month and binge watch the whole season and anything else, cancel and sign up for the next one. You just h ave to figure out what shows you want to see, when the season ends and that can be the month you sign up for that service. Yo could have 12 different streaming services a year you're cycling through. You really don't need a fraction of them as it's already to much crap to watch as it is.