Wondering how to watch The Office online in the U.S. now it has left Netflix? You need to subscribe to Peacock, the new streaming service from NBCUniversal. The first two seasons can be streamed for free. Seasons three through nine require a Peacock Premium subscription, which starts at $4.99 a month one-week free trial is available if you sign up through Digital Trends today.
To celebrate the return of The Office to NBC, where it first aired in the U.S., the network has launched a collection of so-called “Superfan Episodes” — extended episodes featuring never-before-seen footage. “Having The Office back in the NBC family opens up access to a lot of extra content that we originally shot,” said The Office U.S. creator Greg Daniels in a statement.
NBC launched a new channel on Peacock to celebrate the release. Titled The Office Zen, the station broadcasts The Office-like ambient sounds 24 hours a day, seven days a week, described by NBC as “a channel of ambient noise devoted to the sights and sounds of the office for anyone working at home.” But for most fans, the episodes are the only background sound they want.
While an unpopular choice, you have the option to purchase individual episodes and even entire seasons. If you’ll be signing up to Peacock exclusively for The Office, we recommend purchasing The Office: The Complete Series on iTunes for $30 and taking advantage of the to watch the new Superfan Episodes. Do this now and you’ll save $15 this year alone.
Should you for whatever reason choose to venture down this route, you’ll be able to use these purchases to create your very own The Office streaming service (more on that in a bit) by transferring them from iTunes to your Mac/PC for local access. Alternatively, you can stream them through the Apple TV application on any compatible Apple device after purchasing.
Alternatively, you can buy The Office DVD set on Amazon for $50. It’s $20 more than the digital version on iTunes, but this way you have cold, hard DVDs in your possession. Things get a little tricky here, though, if you want to store them digitally as well as copyright protection prohibits you from burning content stored on DVDs to a computer or a different personal media device.
Hear us out. The Office has been known to move around a lot, bouncing from streaming service to streaming service in the U.S. Sure, it’s safe to assume it has found its retirement home in Peacock, but who wants to fork out $4.99 a month? We’re die-hard fans. You want to watch The Office forever, right? So why not create your own personal streaming service using Plex?
This isn’t as complicated as it sounds. It’s a bit like uploading a file to Dropbox, but in this case you’re uploading episodes of The Office to your very own Plex Server, which you can access through Smart TVs, and on Android and iOS, and online. You even have the option to download episodes or entire seasons for offline viewing — something Peacock currently doesn’t offer.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.