Watching on peacock sucks so much too. Want to watch a replay? 2 minute commercials. It loads and you want to watch a specific part? 2 min commercial every time you fast forward. Want to use their chapters to go to certain events? It will load the event 5 min before showing a long shot of the stadium or something. Fast forward? MORE COMMERCIALS!

The archery footage blows. Face, target. Face, target. You can’t get a good feel for how far away the target is, nor the size of it. It’s much more impressive when you can get a view of the whole thing from an over the shoulder perspective.

The television coverage may suck. I chose to spend the $12 to get ad free Peacock for a month and that has been great. Every event, ad free, with no fluff.

Without that, probably would have never watched my new favorite event, kayak cross.

Olympics on Peacock premium plus is actually pretty good. Can select any event, sport, live or reply, skip / FForward ads, multiview events, gold zone view, standings, interviews, etc.

Prime time is shit, but most of it already happened so you can way h it in replays.

not sure what event you were watching but over the last two weeks i thought the coverage was actually pretty good. yes there is human interest stuff but i don’t think it has been egregious. some commercials side by side with live action, but also not too egregious.

that being said i am mostly watching live events during the day on youtube tv, not on peacock. also bouncing around between USA, E!, and the extra olympics channels. maybe it’s worse on NBC prime time and everything prerecorded.

incidentally youtube tv’s multiview has been clutch for the olympics.

Why aren’t people getting vpn to have access to other country streams like cbc, bbc, and 9now so switching can be done if one countries stream doesn’t have access to an event? No commercials is awesome and lack of sob stories with direct feeds is divine.

I record everything on Plex off an antenna/hdhomerun and fast forward through all the cruft. We can watch about 3-4 hours of coverage each hour depending on the sport. There’s no way I could watch it live. Plex will get a bit confused about whether or not an episode is new or not, so to prevent it missing anything I post process each file into a new library and fix up the episode name with a timestamp. This does result in some repeated recordings, but we just delete any matches we’ve already seen. Been doing it this way for the last few Olympics and it’s manageable.

Some things I’ve learned about the olympics from the NBC coverage in the US.

There really not much happening there most of the time. So they have to fill the time with shots of US gymnasts drinking from water bottles and sitting around in their chairs, or of US runners standing around in the hallway before the race.

I’ve heard rumors of other sports, but it seems the only ones that really are going on are the ones that US competitors are dominating.

The US is the best at everything. Other countries make mistakes, but US competitors are always flawless and in the front.

There is a lot of beach volleyball happening all the time.

I never get to see events that I want to watch. It was all swimming and gymnastics the first week and screw you if you wanted something else. And no, I’m not signing up for your streaming service.

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They lost me at Hoda Kotbe.

All the olympics sucks it is not even worth the watch and the stations always lose money. But I will say this the fast walk event I will watch and get excited for because its a bunch of sixty year olds trying to out fast walk the other all while trying not to run. And you can see them really trying not just to take off and run. It funny and awesome. I love the announcers during it because they have no clue on how to narrate it.