DRM and watching TV on the internet

The pilot of the new NBC show Go On was made available online.  I saw a short preview and it looked like a good show, so I decided to watch the pilot.  I fired up my web browser on the Windows machine connected to the TV.  The browser froze for a we seconds, then the video started.  Yay Flash!  After a few minutes, the video froze.  I had to hit refresh and try to skip to the location where we left off.  After a few more minutes, the video froze again.  I was getting pretty frustrated when my phone grabbed the FiOS remote and found the show On Demand.  The On Demand video had a restriction.  We couldn't fast forward through the parts we saw already.  Kudos to NBC for making online TV so terrible that we have to back to the old broadcast TV.