• snooggums@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Like early Netflix before they all decided they would make their own shitty streaming services and didn’t renew contracts.

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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      6 months ago

      Let me take this opportunity to get on my soapbox to sat this:

      Peacock Sucks Ass

      NBC / Universal were one of the first movers in streaming with Seeso. Did they learn lessons from Seeso about how to run a good streaming service? No they abandoned it almost immediately basically saying “this whole streaming thing is just a fad, anyway”

      The results? Now its hard to watch those old (genuinely excellent) Seeso shows, and NBC / Universal has managed to make itself late to the streaming party when they were a first actor. And the service itself? Ass. Total cheeks. Major butt. Absolute balloon knot. It always has technical issues AND scanning within an episode is hard because it doesn’t do it in chunks, it acts like a slider in constant motion.

      Conclusion: don’t look at Peacock as the idiot child of the streaming landscape. View it as the logical conclusion to media companies’ corporate greed. They want you to pay money for a service that sucks, that’s chock full of ads (oh! That’s another thing. Where do you get off showing me three minutes of ads, Peacock, who do you think you are?), and doesn’t even work decently right while a lot of these UX problems have been solved for over two decades (DVD scanning is easy and fine).

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        6 months ago

        At least Peacock has shows that you want to watch. Netflix has a good UI but it’s just a bunch of made-for-tv movies and other crap. It’s just like TNT or TBS without sports.

        • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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          6 months ago

          Okay but that’s ALSO what Peacock is. Look at peacock’s catalog and Netflix catalog and tell me its better rather than just different