Comments on: Watch NBC prime TV free on your BlackBerry Storm

By: galrads

galrads — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:01:07 +0000

Forgot to mention I am on VZW (duh)

By: galrads

galrads — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:30 +0000

To watch tv on a storm or storm 2, go to options/advanced/browser and set browser to be hotspot browser. Worked for me and all other browser setup are default.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:58:49 +0000

Had the same response as post #41, using 8310 curve through at+t. I had an ealier problem last week with youtube as well, unable to view/receive streaming video. Uninstalled some apps and got yt to work. Opera mini 5 was a culprit. Still can’t get nbc or cbs videos to play.

By: upSetStormUser

upSetStormUser — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:50:16 +0000

The videos work fine– it’s the viewer that’s incompatible with the Storm. The KMedia player is garbage! Any RealMedia Player will tell you what the video link is. You can then email that link to your phone from your computer and “voila,” you’re back in business. The rub is that the purpose of the mobile phone becomes moot when you have to resort to using the computer to view the video in the first place.

By: yada

yada — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:58:22 +0000

OS .148 doesn’t change anything, either: still nothing but 403 errors.

By: Alida

Alida — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:11:08 +0000

I had been watching the shows I miss cause of work on my storm for over 2 months and last wee
k it stopped letting get on that sucks ..I saw a sprint add that said to watch nbc on your mobile so .maybe its NBC or something it did work for a long time so I don’t
Know something had to happen right?

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:47:50 +0000

There is no such thing as “Blackberry Browser” on a Verizon Storm with BIS, BStorm. Only “Internet Browser”.

And still today “Error 403: Forbidden” clicking either the thumbnail pictures or the text links.

OS 4.7.0.141

By: BStorm

BStorm — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:31:25 +0000

Change your browser to Blackberry Browser from the options, advanced options, browser section.

Also go to options within your browser and make sure that Blackberry Browser is selected as the browser to be used.

That did the trick, its working fine now!

By: Joe1004

Joe1004 — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:44:13 +0000

When I try on my Curve, I get “Upgrade to a Blackberry Storm 8330, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Curve 8330, Blackberry Pearl 8130 and Wi-Fi enabled Blackberry Smartphone and start enjoying full streaming videos from NBC.com.”

Nice.

By: joemoeberry

joemoeberry — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:26:10 +0000

why the hell would you put up an article about something that doesn’t even work?????????? crackberry wouldnt do that

By: yada

yada — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:00:26 +0000

Still nothing. Changing browser identification doesn’t work (tried every option), enabling Javascript doesn’t work, launching in an alternative browser doesn’t work, sacrificing the neighbor’s cat to Cthulu didn’t work. It MUST be Verizon — perhaps whatever Verizon-like thing they’re doing is dependent on which part of their network you’re in? (I’m in Chicago.)

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:38:15 +0000

For all US Verizon Storm 9530 users try this:
I went into the “Blackberry Browser” Then i hit the menu button and went to options. I opened “Browser Configuration” I then went down to “Browser Identification” and changed it from Blackberry Browser to Firefox. Saved and went back and it worked like a charm.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:20:01 +0000

I got it to work on a US verizon STORM 9530 by changing the Blackberry browser setting from Blackberry brower to firefox…but the quality isnt that great…nice in a pinch though. It breaks one episode into a bunch of little episodes.

By: NA

NA — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:49:36 +0000

Where so I find the WAP browser?

By: Phreqd

Phreqd — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:36:23 +0000

Works with the Bold on AT&T. I also had to use the WAP browser because I got error messages in my regular browser.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:16:19 +0000

I tried this morning both clicking through the text and clicking through the pictures and same error either way. 9530 running .141 with BIS only.

By: n8

n8 — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:57:59 +0000

Sorry about the confusion earlier as well. I am so used to just saying “BlackBerry Browser” because most people just assume its the only browser.
In my above statement, blackberry browser meant the “internet browser”. The wording BlackBerry Browser will only appear if you are on a BES.
BTW, on the storm I also was getting the error that Richard was getting about the “an error occurred”, but like I wrote earlier, it worked when I clicked on the picture on the left. Clicking on the text to the right gave me the error.

By: jsngrvn

jsngrvn — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:35:40 +0000

Still not working for me what a POS…. dont know about you but tired of half a** products that never work correctly

By: murphythadog

murphythadog — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:36:18 +0000

It magically started working for me around 9pm last night. Not sure if the server was overloaded or if it was in fact a genuine block by “the network”. Weird error if the server was overloaded. You think it would be “we’re busy now please try again later”. Instead of the one everyone was getting that it was blocked.

By: n8

n8 — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:33:16 +0000

So since I had a free minute I did some testing.
Click the image on the left hand side for the episodes, not the text on the right hand side.
It should work then.
Let me know.

By: n8

n8 — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:28:06 +0000

I understand peoples frustration on this not working right off the bat and felt as if they were mis-lead by the article.
However like I mentioned above, if you’re fortunate to have a carrier that offers a wap browser, than simply use that rather than the standard browser and it will work. Same thing with youtube videos on 5.0 as well.
I have it working on a Bold, 8900 and 9530 Storm, so it is possible. Again, verizon isn’t blocking anything. Its the way that the nbc site is reading the device when attempting to bring up the video.
I don’t have any devices with Verizon service so I can’t do any tweaking or testing to tell you which way to get it to work.
If the time and effort was spent to play with the settings rather than bitching and complaining, someone would have probably figured it out by noW.
BTW, love how every ad before it starts playing is a BlackBerry ad. Kind of pointless though since they know we are viewing from a BlackBerry. Wonder if other device users are seeing ads for their phones.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:16:15 +0000

Pretty poorly researched article if you ask me. If it only worked on Bell that should have been posted. Just dumb to post an article about something available on the Storm and it isn’t on the largest Storm provider, or only is by jumping through hoops.

By: Fuz

Fuz — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:02:18 +0000

Hey Richard, tried you suggestion, not working.

I went to configure browser and the only one that shows in the drop down is “internet browser”

I can’t select BB browser. I’ve seen it before, but now I can’t. I’m running 141 btw.

By: NicBall (Nic Ball)

NicBall (Nic Ball) — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:35:20 +0000

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By: yada

yada — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:50:12 +0000

Just tried it using Bolt and got the same 403 error, so I’m thinking it’s VZW, not browser configuration.

By: yada

yada — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:34:07 +0000

I think the BlackBerry Browser only exists on your device if you’re a BES user — at least, that was the only time I had that browser option on my vzw Storm.

By: Richard Wood

Richard Wood — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:54:14 +0000

UPDATE: Some videos still give an error. But it’s different than the original. It’s not an access rights error, it’s more like a corrupt video error, or perhaps a codex error. It does open the media player (which we weren’t getting before), and then I get the error… sometimes!

By: Richard Wood

Richard Wood — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:41:10 +0000

I just got it to work! Not sure which of these settings it was, but I went into Settings, then Advanced, then Browser and changed my Browser Default to BlackBerry Browser. Next I opened the browser, opened Options, went into Browser Configuration, and changed the browser from Internet Browser to BlackBerry Browser, Clicked Menu, selected Save. I then closed the browser, reopened it, navigated to a video on NBC’s mobile site and VOILA! She works!

Guess it’s not Verizon (Unless they changed something in the past half hour while I was fooling with this). I guess it was likely the coding on the site’s end.

Twitter me! @LegalAdmin

By: n8

n8 — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:23:04 +0000

Because they aren’t blocking it (yet at least). Its not Verizon. Its the NBC website and how its identifying the device.

By: tmitechnews (Matt Doades)

tmitechnews (Matt Doades) — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:10:09 +0000

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