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1/15/2024 8:50pm
yak651 wrote:
Is it just me or does everyone have to search to find the SX coverage? You would think Feld/MXSports would require them to put the icon...

Is it just me or does everyone have to search to find the SX coverage? You would think Feld/MXSports would require them to put the icon on the Home Screen for the race coverage the day of the race. How are they going to attract new fans if you have to actively search for the coverage? 

I connect my laptop to a big projector screen in my shop, so I watch the races via web browser.
My browser allows me to set up a home screen with my top web sites or sites I choose...

I have the URL below saved in a tile on the home screen and labeled as "Supercross". 
It takes me straight to the only stuff I watch on Peacock.   

If you're on a smart TV, perhaps you can type it in and save it to your favorites.

https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/sports-icon-rail-supermotocross

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NotCore
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I paid $99 annually for the top Peacock package last year (and prior years) to be commercial free.  Supercross and motocross events still had commercials.  This year the same package cost $130 for an annual subscription.  I choked on the % increase.  So I downgraded during the $20 special in November with a new email address and same cc.   Same exact experience.

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yak651 wrote:
Is it just me or does everyone have to search to find the SX coverage? You would think Feld/MXSports would require them to put the icon...

Is it just me or does everyone have to search to find the SX coverage? You would think Feld/MXSports would require them to put the icon on the Home Screen for the race coverage the day of the race. How are they going to attract new fans if you have to actively search for the coverage? 

Its you

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1/16/2024 8:36am

This sport needs its own tv production company. NBC is garbage. Speed probably did it best when they were around.

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Guess we'll just have to wait, because it probably won't be too long before the black-market figures out how to pirate streaming platforms.  And in turn streaming platforms will have justification to start charging more fees due to an increase in security concerns.     

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NotCore
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1/16/2024 9:02am
yak651 wrote:
Is it just me or does everyone have to search to find the SX coverage? You would think Feld/MXSports would require them to put the icon...

Is it just me or does everyone have to search to find the SX coverage? You would think Feld/MXSports would require them to put the icon on the Home Screen for the race coverage the day of the race. How are they going to attract new fans if you have to actively search for the coverage? 

DA498 wrote:

Its you

Smart Ass response notwithstanding, but its not just him.  On Roku, its min 3 clicks away everytime.

 

Personally, I can live with that once a week, but it doesn't change the fact.

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DonM
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NotCore wrote:
I paid $99 annually for the top Peacock package last year (and prior years) to be commercial free.  Supercross and motocross events still had commercials.  This...

I paid $99 annually for the top Peacock package last year (and prior years) to be commercial free.  Supercross and motocross events still had commercials.  This year the same package cost $130 for an annual subscription.  I choked on the % increase.  So I downgraded during the $20 special in November with a new email address and same cc.   Same exact experience.

It has always been stated from the beginning that there is no difference between packages for live sports regarding commercials...

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Peacock has been surprisingly good so far this season for me. Honestly, no blurry races or dropped signals. Credit where it's due. 

 

As for the streaming choices, I'd have 1-3 if it were up to me. Sadly, my wife wants to watch 14 different flavors of "The real psycho-bitch housewives of [insert city here]." Don't forget the "Season recap: behind the psycho-bitchiness." It seems like they're all on different networks. How many different ways can you watch rich, horrible people yelling at each other???? 

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Rosso391 wrote:

This sport needs its own tv production company. NBC is garbage. Speed probably did it best when they were around.

You can't be serious LOL! This sport has always had the same production company...it's been the same people all the way back to Speed....

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1/16/2024 9:13am
Falcon wrote:
Peacock has been surprisingly good so far this season for me. Honestly, no blurry races or dropped signals. Credit where it's due.    As for the...

Peacock has been surprisingly good so far this season for me. Honestly, no blurry races or dropped signals. Credit where it's due. 

 

As for the streaming choices, I'd have 1-3 if it were up to me. Sadly, my wife wants to watch 14 different flavors of "The real psycho-bitch housewives of [insert city here]." Don't forget the "Season recap: behind the psycho-bitchiness." It seems like they're all on different networks. How many different ways can you watch rich, horrible people yelling at each other???? 

Isn't that what we do mostly on this site?  ; )

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I just do not understand the hate for peacock, our sport has done a lot of stuff "wrong" but peacock isn't one of them - speaking for a US fans experience only, I know international might be a different experience. Race day live, every race live, normal amount of commercials, all for $12-$24 a year, as I buy on black friday every year. No guessing for what channel the race will be on or even what day. Hop onto peacock saturday morning, so to supermotocross and look for the start time. If I miss a race, I do not care at all, i'll watch the replay the next morning.

I also have no complaints about streaming in general, I havent had cable in probably 10 years, and I do not miss it one bit. You can typically bundle streaming services with other services (spotify, cell phone provider, etc.). I think we have 6-10 streaming services and pay less than $100 a month to watch mostly commercial free shows on our time.

 

Speaking of Speed mentioned above, I like to watch old races on youtube, and it is absolutely wild how shit the quality of the videos from 2008ish-2015ish is. I can watch a race from 1992 but if someone posts a race from 2010 on youtube, it just looks like pixels racing each other.

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mb60 wrote:

Peacock paid the NFL 110 million for streaming rights. The rest of there programs are shit.

They are starting to build a pretty big collection of sports properties.  And Olympics are coming up this summer, which I assume they will have some programming on Peacock.

 

Don't be surprised if Peacock soon becomes a "must have" for sports fans.

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Tyler D wrote:
nascar and nfl seem like a products in decline and investments therein are made with an eye toward pumping social narratives into a complacent and captive...

nascar and nfl seem like a products in decline and investments therein are made with an eye toward pumping social narratives into a complacent and captive consumer base more than anything. 

Why in the world would you think the NFL is a product in decline?

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DonM wrote:

It has always been stated from the beginning that there is no difference between packages for live sports regarding commercials...

For what it's worth, it looks like they have changed things a bit for watching replays this year.  Last year when watching the replay, I could fast forward through the commercials (or maybe they didn't even have any), but this year the replay has about 6 breaks in which they broadcast 2 unskippable commercials per break.  Annoying, but not the end of the world.

 

I watched the 450 main on the NBC broadcast and they interrupted the main even for a commercial break. I don't remember the last time a SX main event was interrupted for commercials.

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1/16/2024 9:53am

I don’t care for all that much TV.  I don’t think it gets much better for me than paying a minimal cost for peacock and getting to see every race, live, in one place.  I guess it could be free?  I have watched a few other things in peacock but i wont pretend i would buy it if there wasn’t SMX.

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Falcon wrote:
Peacock has been surprisingly good so far this season for me. Honestly, no blurry races or dropped signals. Credit where it's due.    As for the...

Peacock has been surprisingly good so far this season for me. Honestly, no blurry races or dropped signals. Credit where it's due. 

 

As for the streaming choices, I'd have 1-3 if it were up to me. Sadly, my wife wants to watch 14 different flavors of "The real psycho-bitch housewives of [insert city here]." Don't forget the "Season recap: behind the psycho-bitchiness." It seems like they're all on different networks. How many different ways can you watch rich, horrible people yelling at each other???? 

NotCore wrote:

Isn't that what we do mostly on this site?  ; )

Yeah, but the difference is we aren't rich.

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1/16/2024 10:22am Edited Date/Time 1/16/2024 10:26am
yak651 wrote:
Is it just me or does everyone have to search to find the SX coverage? You would think Feld/MXSports would require them to put the icon...

Is it just me or does everyone have to search to find the SX coverage? You would think Feld/MXSports would require them to put the icon on the Home Screen for the race coverage the day of the race. How are they going to attract new fans if you have to actively search for the coverage? 

DA498 wrote:

Its you

NotCore wrote:
Smart Ass response notwithstanding, but its not just him.  On Roku, its min 3 clicks away everytime.   Personally, I can live with that once a...

Smart Ass response notwithstanding, but its not just him.  On Roku, its min 3 clicks away everytime.

 

Personally, I can live with that once a week, but it doesn't change the fact.

This is the “My Stuff” page/feature in the Peacock app. SX is one tap away from the front page of the app. 
IMG 1167This is where the replays go, automatically, for me now that I’ve made them “My Stuff”.
Also, when I open the app and go to “sports”…the next available SX event comes up as a leading event. 
IMG 1168

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zookrider62!
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damn, I knew @TeamGreen was moto to the core, but I didn't realize he was THIS into moto

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I love Peacock. I pay for exactly what I want and I get it. Whenever I want it and on any device I want it. 

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damn, I knew @TeamGreen was moto to the core, but I didn't realize he was THIS into moto

damn, I knew @TeamGreen was moto to the core, but I didn't realize he was THIS into moto

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Corrected. Spell check threw me under the bus…as usual. Shocked

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1/16/2024 10:36am

The only complaint I have is Peacock lags on my LG TV App for some reason. Doesn't lag while watching on my mobile devices and tablets. I pay the $60 a year subscription and I'm good to go, well worth it. Definitely get my monies' worth even if I just use it to watch dirtbikes...

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The only complaint I have is Peacock lags on my LG TV App for some reason. Doesn't lag while watching on my mobile devices and tablets...

The only complaint I have is Peacock lags on my LG TV App for some reason. Doesn't lag while watching on my mobile devices and tablets. I pay the $60 a year subscription and I'm good to go, well worth it. Definitely get my monies' worth even if I just use it to watch dirtbikes...

That sounds more like an issue with your LG TV or network connection to TV. A lot of "smart tv's" don't come with very good hardware to run the applications. Kind of like running Windows 11 on a really old PC. It just doesn't have the resources to do it. I would recommend you get something like a Roku Ultra or a such. 

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1/16/2024 10:50am
The only complaint I have is Peacock lags on my LG TV App for some reason. Doesn't lag while watching on my mobile devices and tablets...

The only complaint I have is Peacock lags on my LG TV App for some reason. Doesn't lag while watching on my mobile devices and tablets. I pay the $60 a year subscription and I'm good to go, well worth it. Definitely get my monies' worth even if I just use it to watch dirtbikes...

stremme12 wrote:
That sounds more like an issue with your LG TV or network connection to TV. A lot of "smart tv's" don't come with very good hardware...

That sounds more like an issue with your LG TV or network connection to TV. A lot of "smart tv's" don't come with very good hardware to run the applications. Kind of like running Windows 11 on a really old PC. It just doesn't have the resources to do it. I would recommend you get something like a Roku Ultra or a such. 

Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG needs to update and optimize their app. 

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The only complaint I have is Peacock lags on my LG TV App for some reason. Doesn't lag while watching on my mobile devices and tablets...

The only complaint I have is Peacock lags on my LG TV App for some reason. Doesn't lag while watching on my mobile devices and tablets. I pay the $60 a year subscription and I'm good to go, well worth it. Definitely get my monies' worth even if I just use it to watch dirtbikes...

stremme12 wrote:
That sounds more like an issue with your LG TV or network connection to TV. A lot of "smart tv's" don't come with very good hardware...

That sounds more like an issue with your LG TV or network connection to TV. A lot of "smart tv's" don't come with very good hardware to run the applications. Kind of like running Windows 11 on a really old PC. It just doesn't have the resources to do it. I would recommend you get something like a Roku Ultra or a such. 

Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG...

Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG needs to update and optimize their app. 

Once again. I think your tv is probably under performing and lacking resources. That's fine that it was $2,000 but for another $100 you can buy a device specifically built to stream and only stream. Your TV price tag is mainly in the LED technology. 

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Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG...

Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG needs to update and optimize their app. 

I wonder if your TV is trying to upscale the resolution with some software. You may need to change the settings, does it do that live and on replay or just live?

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1/16/2024 11:12am
stremme12 wrote:
That sounds more like an issue with your LG TV or network connection to TV. A lot of "smart tv's" don't come with very good hardware...

That sounds more like an issue with your LG TV or network connection to TV. A lot of "smart tv's" don't come with very good hardware to run the applications. Kind of like running Windows 11 on a really old PC. It just doesn't have the resources to do it. I would recommend you get something like a Roku Ultra or a such. 

Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG...

Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG needs to update and optimize their app. 

stremme12 wrote:
Once again. I think your tv is probably under performing and lacking resources. That's fine that it was $2,000 but for another $100 you can buy...

Once again. I think your tv is probably under performing and lacking resources. That's fine that it was $2,000 but for another $100 you can buy a device specifically built to stream and only stream. Your TV price tag is mainly in the LED technology. 

Hmm you might be onto something. Maybe I can try my Chromecast. If that doesn't work buy a Roku stick like you said. Thanks for the tips because it is really annoying. 

1/16/2024 11:13am
Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG...

Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG needs to update and optimize their app. 

early wrote:
I wonder if your TV is trying to upscale the resolution with some software. You may need to change the settings, does it do that live...

I wonder if your TV is trying to upscale the resolution with some software. You may need to change the settings, does it do that live and on replay or just live?

It could be. I don't watch replay racesLaughing 

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Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG...

Thanks for the advice but it's a really nice $2000 OLED TV, we splurge on TVs and get nothing but the best. I just think Peacock/LG needs to update and optimize their app. 

stremme12 wrote:
Once again. I think your tv is probably under performing and lacking resources. That's fine that it was $2,000 but for another $100 you can buy...

Once again. I think your tv is probably under performing and lacking resources. That's fine that it was $2,000 but for another $100 you can buy a device specifically built to stream and only stream. Your TV price tag is mainly in the LED technology. 

Hmm you might be onto something. Maybe I can try my Chromecast. If that doesn't work buy a Roku stick like you said. Thanks for the...

Hmm you might be onto something. Maybe I can try my Chromecast. If that doesn't work buy a Roku stick like you said. Thanks for the tips because it is really annoying. 

I'd avoid a roku stick. The Ultra is more powerful with a lot more resources. the "stick" version of streaming devices also lack the hardware to stream at a high level. 

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NotCore
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Rosso391 wrote:

This sport needs its own tv production company. NBC is garbage. Speed probably did it best when they were around.

DonM wrote:

You can't be serious LOL! This sport has always had the same production company...it's been the same people all the way back to Speed....

Motocross initially did not show any commercials, other than the in-program promotions.

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DA498 wrote:

Its you

NotCore wrote:
Smart Ass response notwithstanding, but its not just him.  On Roku, its min 3 clicks away everytime.   Personally, I can live with that once a...

Smart Ass response notwithstanding, but its not just him.  On Roku, its min 3 clicks away everytime.

 

Personally, I can live with that once a week, but it doesn't change the fact.

TeamGreen wrote:
This is the “My Stuff” page/feature in the Peacock app. SX is one tap away from the front page of the app.  This is where the replays...

This is the “My Stuff” page/feature in the Peacock app. SX is one tap away from the front page of the app. 
IMG 1167This is where the replays go, automatically, for me now that I’ve made them “My Stuff”.
Also, when I open the app and go to “sports”…the next available SX event comes up as a leading event. 
IMG 1168

Well, I did that once, but it saved the race I previously watched, not he race I want to watch next.

I will look at it again.

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