Haha. I used to be a regular viewer of Days for about 3 years. When you follow the story line and have an emotional investment in the characters, the show is damn addicting!
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Its nice that they consolidated everything but I kinda of liked having to search around the TV show page to find the free downloads (reminded me of when the free songs of the week and discovery download first came out a few years ago).
Even if there aren't good shows for free download right now there have been a few in the past (i.e. Invader Zim).
Even if there aren't good shows for free download right now there have been a few in the past (i.e. Invader Zim).
jameshopkins said:
I'm not clear on how Apple is to blame here. It's the BBC or Channel Four that would own the copyright to the material; shouldn't they be the ones to make the content available?
Also, there are larger issues. Royalty payment to the actors, directors, screenwriters, etc. Not to mention the music involved in the shows; I'm sure there are copyright issues there, too.
More to the point, why so much whining? US customers cannot access foreign content the same way people outside the US cannot access US content.
I don't have cable, or even TV for that matter.
Not that it stopped me from downloading it to watch tonight, but whose idea was "Blade: The Series" anyhow?
Not that it stopped me from downloading it to watch tonight, but whose idea was "Blade: The Series" anyhow?
Why so negative?
I know it's pointless to ask, but why are there more Negative votes on this article than Positive?
Apple is giving away free videos, and making it easy to find them, and people are voting Negative? Why so glum? Crikey, people! Cheer up! Free Stuff! Sheesh!
I know it's pointless to ask, but why are there more Negative votes on this article than Positive?
Apple is giving away free videos, and making it easy to find them, and people are voting Negative? Why so glum? Crikey, people! Cheer up! Free Stuff! Sheesh!
I think it is all us non-us citizens complaining about how poverty striken our iTMS are in comparison ... and it is getting worse day by day. Heck, we dont even have free songs at iTMS here in Sweden.schatten said:
WTF how is it possible that there are 10 positives and 15 negatives (at this time) about something that is free??
camomac said:
Perhaps the people who do not have access to iTMS videos at all, free or otherwise, are simply stating their displeasure with this fact.
For me, it's like, "Oooh, great free videos, whatever, this doesn't affect me at all. Apple get your ass in gear and realize there are customers outside the little US of A who would be more than willing to increase your revenue."
I realize it's not necessarily Apple's fault due to legal mumbo jumbo and all that, but the fact remains...
ezekielrage_99 said:
I'm just waiting for hard drive technology to move forward. I'd like a 400-500gb iPod so that I could get rid of MP3s and AACs and put my entire CD collection (in its original, uncompressed CD Audio format) into an iPod.
iPods are great, and using them with earphones are fine, but when I pipe an iPod into a high-end car stereo, or in a friend's high-end home stereo, it's really easy to tell that I'm playing MP3s/AACs because of the compression degradation.
Chuck
anonicon said:
Maybe iPods will move to using holographic storage in the future then to meet those capacity requirements.
there was an article (cant find the link) that actually discussed the use of wirless to stream your media from a home server whereever you are to your portable device.
This would avoid the need for large drives for storage etc. It was an interesting article and i for one would love this to be reality though i think we are a good few years off it.
This would avoid the need for large drives for storage etc. It was an interesting article and i for one would love this to be reality though i think we are a good few years off it.
I'm interested in the blade free download.....anybody ever watched the show?....is it good? is it worth the download?.......everything else is blahhhh.
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shamino said:ROTFLMAO! I think a complete collection of Days would fill every hard drive ever manufactured
I think that show has been on TV, running daily, since the dawn of television itself. Well, not quite. According to Wikipedia, only since November 1965. But we're still talking about over 40 years of daily episodes!
But scarily enough, according to that same Wikipedia article, NBC apparently has all of the episodes in its archive, so this could theoretically be done. Gentlemen, I think we've just discovered a use for 4-layer Blu-Ray discs - so you can sell whole-season archives of soap operas
Hmm, let's do a little quick math:
365 days a year works out to about 260 week days. So, 260 days times 40 years is about 10,400 episodes. Times about 10 minutes to download each one at about 200 MBs. I'd say we're looking at about 72 days download time and will need about 2.1 terabites of storage capacity.
But you'll have YEARS of entertainment.
Porchland said:Hmm, let's do a little quick math:
365 days a year works out to about 260 week days. So, 260 days times 40 years is about 10,400 episodes. Times about 10 minutes to download each one at about 200 MBs. I'd say we're looking at about 72 days download time and will need about 2.1 terabites of storage capacity.
But you'll have YEARS of entertainment.
Wow, that even beats my Doctor Who collection! Every episode since 1963 = 180 GB of AVIs.
2nyRiggz said:
Concept, meh
If you really liked the Blade movies, pass on these, just a disappointment
Blade on network TV, never will work. Blade only works as a comic, and as an R rated movie.
Canadian Shows
There is a lot of great Canadian programming out there. The problem is you hardly see it anymore.
I would like to see The Beachcombers or even North of 60 available on iTunes.
The Beachcombers was one of the longest running TV programs in history. There is a whole generation of fans out there and around the world waiting for both of these series to be released on DVD. Fans have waited years. Why not release them on iTunes?
I agree.revjay said:
There is a lot of great Canadian programming out there. The problem is you hardly see it anymore.
I would like to see The Beachcombers or even North of 60 available on iTunes.
The Beachcombers was one of the longest running TV programs in history. There is a whole generation of fans out there and around the world waiting for both of these series to be released on DVD. Fans have waited years. Why not release them on iTunes?
mac 2005 said:
What are you on about, there is no content for US customers not to have access to! You have all the content on iTunes.