hello i'm wanderer 001 and this is my review and look at of nbc peacock streaming service
now i wasn't actually going to do a review of this particular service one because well right
now you cannot get this on roku or amazon fire sticks you can only get this right now in my case
using a android setup box one of the things that kind of brought me around was that unlike some
of these other services peacock does have a free tier and that's what i'm going to be showing you
here is the free tier of peacock they do have a five dollar a month premium package which pretty
much lets you get access to their entire catalog unlike the free version which gives you limited
access to their catalog so free most of their catalog premium all of their catalog premium plus
at ten dollars a month gives you access to their entire streaming catalog and no ads so free and
premium are ad supported premium plus takes away those ads now i say streaming catalog
i should preface that with saying current streaming catalog because of already pre-existing
license agreements some of their stuff is on other services still and not their entire back catalog
is currently made available on their service but let's take a look at peacock and kind of get a
look at what we have going on here and the reason i left it on the free tier is because there's some
things that i want you to notice with the free tier in telling what is accessible to you for
not paying for things versus having paid for something so right off the bat you're brought
to the browse section so up here you've got ads for peacock original programming i will say the
other factor for me in checking this area out was the peacock original movie psych 2 which my wife
loved psych when it was on tv and she did not even know that this movie launched on this service so i
happen to hear this on a podcast and i thought i would surprise her here you've got downton abbey
everybody hates chris jurassic park so this is a mixture of tv shows and movies now down here
continue watching i jumped into several different sections and this first one is a children's
show then you have parks and recs which is just a regular tv series and then jurassic park
now i want you to notice something jurassic park has a little clock in the corner of it that means
that after four days this will no longer be on the service now this is partially due to
licensing agreements things of that nature so if i come over to the matrix let's see if we get that
yep this one has it too so over the left hand corner you can see
four days left it also shows rotten tomato scores and popcorn but we're just gonna
kind of go back so that that doesn't actually continue playing
uh because we don't want to get a copyright strike but with movies currently on the free tier and
tv shows there are ad blocks you saw how many ad blocks there were for jurassic park when
i started that up for your tv series you're looking at about three ad breaks i will say
for children's programming there do not appear to be ads i've jumped through a couple of them
to take a look there do not seem to be ads which is nice there is a playlist so if i came up to
something and hypothetically here we go next item down is peacock picks so if i select this
i can add to my watch list i can see all of the episodes so free episodes or season ones so
here you go it's letting you see episode 1 on the free tier but if you want to see the rest of this
you will have to upgrade to the premium or the premium plus and i feel that that's going to
be like that for a lot of the peacock originals now it did take a moment to show up but if you
look in the upper left hand corner of these shows here there is now a little icon letting you know
that this is a premium or premium plus needed to access those shows or episodes even
see down here with you may also like notice that superstore has that in the upper left-hand corner
as well so just know free tier gets you access to a lot of things maybe not all the things so
coming down in our brows section we have featured film peacock originals
fantastic females free big screen movies because i watch psych with my wife feature channels so this
if you look at it is actually access to currently what is on because right now dur you know i'm
filming this it is between 6 and 6 30 6 and 6 30 pm so if i select this this will actually bring me
into the live feed of today all day now i will say the load times with the the live channels can be
a little a little long so i'm not gonna actually sit you through that but we'll continue going down
so true crime always on timeless classics i mean there there's a lot
and again notice in the upper left hand corner paid version paid version can watch for free
paid version there's no real rhyme or reason to what they do that with and i'm not sure what
selections there are for this i mean this is an older movie this is an even older movie
is there a cutoff there there doesn't seem to be uh so round trip here we've got in espanol
hidden gems kids corner i mean i can i can keep going and going because well this really does
just keep going and going i mean you do get to an end eventually now they are this film strip style
sorting mechanism but let's say i don't want to use the film strip or want to see
everything so under adrenaline junkies well here i go i can see a rotten tomato score click click
click click i'm not seeing everything that they have if we come and select all the way over to
the left there is actually a view all button which is nice so you kind of get it in more of a tiled
version interface which is what i'm more used to seeing nowadays so again this is what they have
under adrenaline junkies it's not all the movies they have this is just that subsection now i am
happy to say that if you backspace twice on your remote control depending on what you're using
it will bring you all the way back up to the top you don't have to scroll all the way through that
which i do appreciate coming over to the right if we select tv shows it's going to give us a
similar breakdown so again peacock originals current tv looking for laughs it's it's the
same user interface except now it's aggregating just tv shows likewise if we come over we select
movies it's going to do the same thing here we go rotten tomato approved comic relief
sirius cinema action adventure it's breaking all of those down and in each of them
select over to the left and you can view all that are in that subcategory we have kids which again
is going to be a selection of kids programming it's not bad there is a decent amount of stuff in
here but the big thing with any of these specific services are if you don't like the content that
is by nbc let's say you're a disney household then is this going to be right for you
for the price of free i would say it's worth checking out paying for it that's another
story that's up to you we've got our news so top headlines nbc news you get the idea sports we do
have a sports section it will show highlights here we go premier league highlights top sports stories
and then we're kind of into sports related items and then they do have a latino
offering it's not going to be quite as robust as some of the other offerings but just know it's
there last but not least on the right we have our account information which will pretty much show
you the version of peacock that you're on as well as the do not sell my information so you will see
more targeted advertising if you leave that on but i turn that off because that's just what i
like to do all right so we're going to go now to the left of our browsing so we have trending
so what this is going to do is it's going to grab i grew up in rural alabama trending
information so all of these are trending video clips here we go we're going to keep going
and you can just rotate through trending options now i'm going to keep moving through these because
one i don't want to get hit with anything but you can you can kind of cycle through this as a pseudo
live channel offering but we're going to come over to live channels now again
we are on the today all but if we wanted to we can kind of scroll through these now
these live channels don't necessarily denote being live because here this is the office
channel so it says office shorts obviously we don't have the olympics on right now late night
make me a millionaire so sky news so if we select one of those it brings you in it'll start playing
but i'm going to prevent it from playing last but not least on the left
search which will allow you to hunt and peck for things that you want to search for so
yeah i'm looking for shrek there you go anything that kind of starts with that we've got shrek we
can select it notice that we do need to watch with princess premium but also notice just above that
there are only four days left to watch us again because of previous licensing agreements they're
not going to have access to everything that you think they might have in time that will change but
right now that is a limitation that you need to think about so general thoughts overall for a free
service i'm willing to leave it on my set top box here i do hope that they finish whatever arguments
they're working out with roku and amazon because right now those are the those are the premier
streaming devices and i hate to say it it does seem that roku in particular is being a little
less platform agnostic now since they have their own free streaming channel things just
kind of seem to be uh different than when i first started using them it's still my preferred box
but um they're definitely powerhouse and they're trying to use that power to get a more favor
favorable outcome bad that that's up to you to decide so again free version there's no reason
not to check it out at the very least paid i dislike paying for something and still having ads
hulu does it too but it is kind of what it is these days premium plus 10 a month if there's
a lot of stuff on peacock that you like it could be worth doing just to get rid of the ads myself
there are not many shows that peacock offers that i either cannot access elsewhere or don't already
have digital copies of because i purchased them myself so nbc's peacock is yet another channel
to add to your lineup in your cord cutting arsenal i have been wanderer001 if you have any questions
or comments please feel free to leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching you