Watching Celtics games on Peacock

[Celtics2021]

This season you can add NBC Sports Boston to a Peacock subscription for $10ish a month (at least if you?re in the Boston market, don?t know if you can do that outside the area).  I was considering this as a much cheaper alternative to YouTube/Fubo/Hulu.  Has anyone signed up for this already and tried it for preseason games?  If so, how is the streaming quality? Also, can you watch from the beginning if you come in late and/or watch it after the fact if you miss the game?  Replies appreciated before 7:30! 🍀🍀

[gift]

I signed up and watched a couple pre-season games. Apparently what you get is a "live stream" of NBC Sports Boston. There is no DVR function and no replays (unlike the other NBA content on Peacock). You do seem to be able to rewind for some amount. I caught one game late and was able to go back to the beginning (maybe a half an hour earlier). The stream quality itself was fine. So I'd say not as good as YouTubeTV, which I previously used. But I'll stick with it for this year because I committed myself to ESPN, Peacock, Amazon already and don't want to add another service.

Edit: I should specify, NBC Sports Boston airs replays and so you have access to stream those live as well. Just no pre-set replay of the game itself. At least not currently. If they add that, I'll stick with it as a service beyond this year.

[Celtics2021]

Thanks for the review!  TP!

[Moranis]

Wouldn't League Pass be a better option ar that price

[SHAQATTACK]

Do we look better there?

[celts55]

I have league pass on Prime and it keeps freezing. Seems to be an issue with Prime as football games do it to. Had league pass on YouTube tv last few years and never had a problem. Unfortunately, it?s not available there anymore

[Moranis]

I have league pass on Prime and it keeps freezing. Seems to be an issue with Prime as football games do it to. Had league pass on YouTube tv last few years and never had a problem. Unfortunately, it?s not available there anymore

I've always just bought it from the NBA app

[slamtheking]

related question - has anyone watched any of the game on Amazon Prime?  tomorrow night's game is only exclusively on there apparently.  I do have prime but usually can't watch live so I'm wondering if anyone has watched a game on prime other than as a live event

[Celtics4ever]

I have league pass on Prime and it keeps freezing. Seems to be an issue with Prime as football games do it to. Had league pass on YouTube tv last few years and never had a problem. Unfortunately, it?s not available there anymore

So you might want to try this, if there are feeds to choose, try to the Boston in the arena feed.   This fixed most of my problems. Good luck.  I found these pausing and it brought up an option.

For me the default feed was bad, too.  Switching to the Boston feed also gave me the local broadcasters which I liked better than random ones.