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Too many poorly-timed commercials
This app is virtually useless. Primary detractions:
1. Playback is unreliable in quality and seamlessness. This is not a problem I have with other apps. Every 20 seconds or-so I get a yellow 'buffering' loop that takes 20 more seconds to return to streaming (now at substantially decreased quality). My internet speed is fine--and, oddly enough, provided by NBC's parent company.
2. Commercials cut into programming. I got the app to watch the 2018 Olympics and it cuts into live competition to show ads. It might be tolerable (but shouldn't happen at all) if it was a rare fluke; but it isn't. It happens every couple minutes; absolutely ruining the watching experience.
3. The commercial-to-program ratio is something like 2:1. I am spending twice as much time watching commercials as I am programming.
I can only surmise that NBC really doesn't want one to actually use this to enjoy their programming.
