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Playoff pay per view? No effing way (1 Viewer)
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belljr
Footballguy
I understand youtube TV at least - you are paying for a service to get "every game" - i understand the restrictions.....
Agree this other stuff is nonsense
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
I want to enjoy everything I can during however much time I have left on this rock. If I have to pay a couple bucks to watch a nfl playoff game then **** it…I’m paying .
Me making a stand and refusing to pay isn’t going to change anything
Gottabesweet
Footballguy
You do realize you can do a free trial and then cancel correct? I already have Peacock. My oldest watches WWE pay-per-views on there.
I have no issue with your choice. Just don't come crying to us when you will be paying way more than a couple bucks to watch way more than one nfl playoff game in the future after the NFL sees how many new subscribers that agree with your philosophy they get.
What part about "it's not about the money" is not registering?
Just like Disney did when they were the only one’s airing the game in London they removed the free trial option.
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
I posted above that I’ve been expecting this for years.
I promise I won’t come crying to you
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Agreed. That's the main reason I didn't watch much Thursday night football this year, as if there is a hockey game or something else I want to check out here and there, I want to be able to flip over in an instant, not go through the whole uploading the app nonsense.
As a Giants fan I never thought I'd say this to a Cowboys fan,but,I totally agree with you
Gottabesweet
Footballguy
I think the part someone is this cheap or doesn’t have a smart tv. Unless they are in their 70’s and can’t figure out technology. That part.
Brunell4MVP
Footballguy
I think NBC is going to fail on this specific one. Yes it will all go streaming for specific content at some point. But I'm already paying for NBC through YouTubeTV, Hulu, Verizon, whatever. Slamming the content into a subsidiary network and pretending they don't already own the content ... that's shady. There's a reason boxing died and MMA took over. Putting everything essentially PPV disengages the masses, and you get a bunch of boxing geeks signing up for a boring 12 round puff piece. I think Amazon's Thursday night production and game quality has been horrible. I just don't see this yet with the NFL playoffs. I'm fine getting EPSN's 4 minute version of game highlights
Agreed. A company needs to figure this out soon. I don’t even mind the slight buffer going from channel to channel, nor needing to subscribe to a few different services. Having to bounce between Prime and my primary service took forever, and led me to rarely watch the Thursday games.
DropKick
Footballguy
Sine you're a Boys' fan, let's just call in "America's fault".
Deamon
Footballguy
archive.md is your best friend
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
MIA-KC
Sat Night Peacock
Palm Beach County
Blackout on the local NBC...
-Palm Beach has a **** ton of fans that go down to the games at Hard Rock. It's only about an hour away
The outrage when some of these folks go to tune in at 8pm assuming it's on local TV as usual, they are in for a big surprise.
I'm really torn on this, has nothing to do with the $6 to have Peacock for a month
Sat Night Peacock
Palm Beach County
Blackout on the local NBC...
-Palm Beach has a **** ton of fans that go down to the games at Hard Rock. It's only about an hour away
The outrage when some of these folks go to tune in at 8pm assuming it's on local TV as usual, they are in for a big surprise.
I'm really torn on this, has nothing to do with the $6 to have Peacock for a month
rockaction
Footballguy
Do you mean torn about watching the MIA game?
MoP, if you don't fork over the cash to watch the game your favorite team is playing, then you're making a miscalculation, IMO. A one-person boycott and all the rhetoric coming out of this thread ain't going to change a thing. Live a little. Enjoy it now. Your decision to watch the game or not is not going to affect the aggregate. The decision to go to pay-per-view is being made whether or not you watch.
Don't deny yourself a playoff game with your team in it. Those don't come around often.
ShamrockPride
Footballguy
This year is a wild card game, next year divisional...up until the Super Bowl is a ppv (which honestly after half a century, I'm shocked they've yet to try).
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
My ocd has finally pushed me over the edge and so I have to be that guy...
Airing this game on Peacock is not PPV!
Airing this game on Peacock is not PPV!
rockaction
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
I get what you guys are saying, but the model is still under construction. We as consumers have a chance to shape the model.
It's not that i want more for less. I want to watch football but I'm willing to skip this game. That's my problem but it's also the nfls problem. If it's not profitable for peacock/NBC, they won't keep doing it. If it costs the nfl eyeballs, they'll charge more to NBC for exclusive access than they otherwise would. That's good. It discourages this model. So there's a chance to shape this before it goes sideways like cable did.
Cable had a monopoly for a long time. If you wanted to watch ESPN you had to get the food network and lifetime. I don't want those. Then they had a chance to break up the monopoly with deregulation. Nope. ESPN charged a ton of money and their marketing team decided nobody would pay that just for ESPN so all of the cable companies offered a bundle of cheaper channels with it and you had to pay for things you didn't want.
Direct TV was supposed to be an alternative to that and guess what? They figured out that most of the people who used them did so because they couldn't get cable (mobile home, rural area, etc) or they wanted Sunday ticket. So they bundled everything around Sunday ticket and again forced you to buy packages you didn't want to get the "deal" on the thing you want.
This is the same thing happening again. Get Amazon. And YouTube TV. And you'll need to pay extra for Sunday ticket and red zone. Oh by the way you thought you were getting every game but you're not. We're going to change things up and make you get more stuff you don't want.
I don't mind paying to watch football. I think the price is already pretty high but whatever. I want to pay one price and watch what I want to watch. They're changing the price a little at a time after I've already paid for it, and they're bundling things I don't want so it feels like a better value. That's exactly what I didn't want. That's exactly what I refuse to support.
The problem isn't that I want more for less. It's that I want less for less and they're trying to make me pay more for more.
3C's
Footballguy
I already barely watch the playoffs/SB/games in general if my team isn't playing so there's pretty much a 0.0% chance that I'll pay above and beyond what I already do to watch a game. I've never purchased any PPV of any type and won't be doing so for 15 minutes of actual play with 60+ more minutes of standing around and 2 hours of commercials and talk.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
To me, its like saying a show on Netflix is PPV. Its a subscription service like dozens of others, whereas "PPV" has a very specific meaning relating to purchasing a single event. I get that for some folks, they would be paying for a single event because there is nothing else of interest to them on Peacock, but that doesn't make this PPV. From my anecdotal perspective, this game is the opposite of PPV - its completely free because I've subscribed to Peacock for many years and will continue to do so regardless of this game, which I probably won't watch.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Its not entirely 'under construction' though as NBC and Peacock have a ton of experience and data and they know exactly what they are doing. Peacock has carried English soccer for many years. There are some games available on NBC or USA, some on ESPN, some on Paramount+ and others (most) exclusively on Peacock. We all hate it but we all pay for it. They do the same with rugby, including the Rugby World Cup this past summer. They have select Big Ten basketball games this season, such as the Purdue v Nebraska game last night, whereas other games are on BTN and others on ESPN or the big networks. The NBA and MLB are also already spread out across multiple broadcast platforms.
I disagree consumers have an opportunity to shape anything. NFL Football is the most popular and valuable product in our media, sports or otherwise. I would say anyone sitting this game out as some form of protest in hopes of influencing the future of NFL broadcast platforms is very admirable but just understand this is coming and we all will eventually pay for it. The performance of this one broadcast is probably 100% irrelevant. We can all get on board now or get on board later.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Well, it depends.
So I have Hulu Live. So I get whatever CBS or Fox games they have this week. I can get in and out of a game through the Hulu app in literally 10 seconds.
BUT, and this is a big BUT....with streaming I can easily plug in a second TV next to my main TV and watch both games at once. It costs me the price of another TV, but I can buy a cheap TV for $125 for a nice 40" TV. Not having to pay a monthly fee for a cable box rental basically pays for this.
But then I can move that TV around. If I want to watch a baseball game on the patio in the summer - easy peasy. Or March Madness in my garage? I can easily move that TV out there along with the other TV's I have and watch all 4 games being broadcast at the same time. All the while not having to move and pay for cable boxes all the time.
It's a sports watchers golden era right now. I can literally watch any game I want. And I'm still paying less than I paid for cable.
It's glorious.
My apologies for the bad info.
Saw the tweet below last night and was like what? Then I realized the game that is re-airing at 11PM CST is the Browns/Texans game.
We wouldn't advise this, but: For out-of-market Dolphins fans who don't want to get Peacock & don't want to find a restaurant/bar carrying Fins-KC, you can lock yourself in a dark room Sat. night (with no contact to outside world) & watch Fins-KC game on NFL Net at 3 a.m. Sunday.
One antenna, that runs into an over-the-air DVR. Then your Fire Stick/whatever device you use for streaming on each TV should be able to link to the DVR and you can watch on any TV.
I have a Fire Recast, which works great for this, but just saw that it was discontinued last year.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
We just have a fire stick at every TV. They’re fast and all act like the exact same TV and you can pause it upstairs and continue where you left off downstairs.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
This is my experience, too. I also have Hulu Live and setting up your recent channels for a day of channel surfing sports is easy. Just hit the down arrow on the remote (instead of the back button on a cable remote). It's a tiny bit slower, but only by a couple of seconds. Where it becomes a ***** is getting in and out of different apps (say, Hulu to Prime) - that takes longer. Luckily, I get most of my rush hour sports programming through Hulu (networks, ESPNs, FS, ESPN +, etc...), so that's not usually an issue. Plus, as Chief says, you can move TVs around without needing to be hardwired - I have a couple of TCL 37"s and those things can't weigh more than a couple of pounds.
All that said, I doubt I'll sign up for Peacock just to watch Saturday's game. It's not in protest, it's due to laziness and forgetfulness.
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
Same
TVG app also instead of paying extra for the channel through xfinity and the channel was sd, streaming the app in hd
3C's
Footballguy
I'm sure it won't happen Saturday but I watch PFT on Peacock in the mornings in a Chrome window, and without fail several times a day during the 2 hours the video freezes. 
Maybe tomorrow I'll work from the mancave and watch using the firestick/app to see if it also hangs. I can't imagine the outcry if the game video freezes.
Maybe tomorrow I'll work from the mancave and watch using the firestick/app to see if it also hangs. I can't imagine the outcry if the game video freezes.
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
FWIW I watched the Sunday night games on peacock all season with Roku and it was greatI'm sure it won't happen Saturday but I watch PFT on Peacock in the mornings in a Chrome window, and without fail several times a day during the 2 hours the video freezes.
3C's
Footballguy
Yeah, thinking about it I've watched a few soccer games on the firestick app and those were fine.FWIW I watched the Sunday night games on peacock all season with Roku and it was greatI'm sure it won't happen Saturday but I watch PFT on Peacock in the mornings in a Chrome window, and without fail several times a day during the 2 hours the video freezes.
belljr
Footballguy
You can technically do that with the xfinity app also. I just cast to my chromecast for my second screen. Don't doubt its not cheaper or "better" but cable now offers close to the same thing
massraider
Footballguy
The final score of this Frozen Pulled Pork Bowl is gonna be like 6-3, and buncha guys wearing New Balance are gonna be like, I paid 50 cents a point for this game!!
fatness
Footballguy
Instacart+ also is giving away free Peacock subscriptions.
belljr
Footballguy
They were taking it away this past summer but then changed course.
3C's
Footballguy
I could be mistaken but when I've used the peacock app I believe I could start the game from the beginning if I started late. I definitely do that with the ESPN app all the time, start hockey games after the 1st period is over so I can FF through the intermissions.
massraider
Footballguy
Plenty of ways to stream anything anyone wants for pretty much free.
ZADO
Footballguy
I have my favorite free streams , but clearly many dont if the NFL thinks this peacock scam will stick
If you have Peacock and want to watch the game, great.
If you don't have Peacock and want to get it to watch the game, great.
If you don't have Peacock and want to yell at The NFL to "get off my lawn" and refuse to pay for it,great.
The NFL is going to make more money off of this anyway no matter what you,I or anyone else does.
Welcome to the new normal...A LA Carte Programming.
If you don't have Peacock and want to get it to watch the game, great.
If you don't have Peacock and want to yell at The NFL to "get off my lawn" and refuse to pay for it,great.
The NFL is going to make more money off of this anyway no matter what you,I or anyone else does.
Welcome to the new normal...A LA Carte Programming.
FarFromHome
Footballguy
I've had peacock for a year. Outside of Yellowstone it's garbage. Zero interest in its catalog. Getting this game is huge for them.
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