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As is my Friday ritual, I watch the most excellent NXT UK program every Friday. I figured I would try watching it on Peacock today since in two weeks, I won't have another choice. My first impression? They have a lot of work to do.
Peacock, of course, made on offer to WWE Network subscribers (and pretty much anyone with a pulse to be honest) that for $4.99 a month, you get Peacock Premium! Five dollars off! And if you signed up early, you got the first four months for $2.50 a month! What a bargain!
Well, I will admit, I didn't read the fine print when I signed up, as I am sure many of you didn't. What I found out today was after the opening segment, where Trent Seven and Jordan Devlin weighed in for their match, I got a 45 second commercial block. No way around it, I just had to watch it. I knew something was up. As it turns out, if we want to eliminate ads, we have to pay The Cock (hey that's catchy, I think it's keeper) five MORE dollars a month. So much for getting The WWE Network cheaper than we were before. Since I wasn't going to upgrade right then and there, I figured how bad could it be?
The answer? VERY!
Whoever put the ads into the programming must be a chimpanzee or trained monkey of some kind. They just decided to pop in commercials at any time, no matter where the program was in its scene. Right in the middle of the main event? COMMERCIAL TIME! The main event was awesome and thank God I was expecting the interruption because if I wasn't, I would have been really ticked off. What kind of knuckle dragging simpleton puts a commercial break right in the middle of a match on a "premium" service? The answer? The Cock!
I have heard from people that bought the No Ads version that when us poor saps on regular premium get ads, they get a black screen for a second or two, then back to the segment. So even ad free isn't perfect. The Cock needs to work on making the content seemless for people that pay for no ads. The few second interruption is unacceptable and no other streaming service does it (that I know of).
As for the PPV on Sunday, well us saps are going to get ads it seems. It appears that the people that pay for Ad free will get a black screen since the show will be live and they can't exactly time warp the show 45 seconds ahead, so that option isn't really much better.
So before you sign up for The Cock, you need to decide if the frustration of ill timed ads is worth the extra five dollars a month.
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