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More TV Content on iTunes (South Park, Laguna Beach, More...)

Live on the Today Show

Another new tidbit...

Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (live on the Today Show January 20, 2006) free in the Music Videos section.

I have no idea who that is, but it's nice to see some nontraditional Music Video content -- and FREE!

I hope the point of this isn't to differentiate music video content from shows so iTMS can charge for each individual sketch and each individual musical performance on "SNL." A 90-minute TV show shouldn't cost $16.

Apple needs to lend a little more logic to its pricing model. You can get last night's episode of "Lost" for $1.99, but a six-minute Will Ferrell sketch from a 10-year old episode also costs $1.99? That doesn't make sense.
 
september29th said:
Anyone else surprised to see MTV's invovlement with iTunes, given their work with EDGE ? or was it URGE?

-Rollie-
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I got a little giggle every time I heard URGE. (Bathroom humor!)
 
Macrumors said:
...the following shows have appeared in iTunes:

The N - South of Nowhere (Season 1)

Nickelodeon - SpongeBob SquarePants (Season 1), Dora the Explorer (Season 1), Zoey 101
MTV - Beavis and Butt-Head, Laguna Beach, Wonder Showzen, Gauntlet 2, My Super Sweet 16 (Season 1-2), Jackass, Punk'd (Season 1-3)
Comedy Central - South Park (Season 1-2), Drawn Together (Season 1-2), Best of Comedy Central Stand-Up
ABC Family - Wildfire (Season 1-2)
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SOAPnet has been up for a few weeks. Also, NBC added The A-Team, and just recently, The Munsters.
 
I had a feeling MTV would be on there within a few short weeks. They made a statement yesterday talking about how they are changing the format of their channels.

"MTV said one system will be aligned around the development of "short-form video, music and news content for linear television as well as for online, video on demand, broadband, wireless and other digital vehicles."

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...1_WEN8629_RTRIDST_0_INDUSTRY-MEDIA-MTV-DC.XML

Mindfield said:
Apple ought to do a favor for us and start selling anime at iTunes US :)
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they still make that stuff? :p ;)
 
Hey, anybody notice that Just For You is off? I wonder if it's coming back as a full-fledged feature and not a Beta. I never thought the recommendations it gave were that great.
 
tk421 said:
Hey, anybody notice that Just For You is off? I wonder if it's coming back as a full-fledged feature and not a Beta. I never thought the recommendations it gave were that great.
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It's still there for me.

What's most interesting about the shows appearing today is that 1) Viacom is on board 2) They even released some shows that are not already available on DVD. 3) The pricing for a complete season (of Dora at least) is quite reasonable and works out significantly cheaper than DVD.

(OK so my kids really like Dora and Diego). I guess we'll have to wait for Diego DVDs to become available next month.

B
 
d.f said:
Is an international deal on TV / Film impossible..? if so, i don't see a DVR anytime soon.
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DVR means Digital Video Recorder. No need for an on-line store for that. The primary use is supposed to be recording your cable/satellite shows.

I do hope I can use my H.264-encoded movies with a future Apple set-top box.
 
kanaka said:
Aww crap! I just accidentally bought season 2 of South Park.
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That is exactly why I turned off one click buying and turned on the shopping cart. Anyway food is over-rated :)
 
I guess it's neat how you can download TV content with iTunes, but come on would you rather watch these shows on your computer or on a TV sitting on a nice sofa. Isn't this content also available on DVD as well or just on iTunes?
 
twoodcc said:
where's smallville?
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An excellent question, glad you asked. Hopefully I may be of some assistance in answering this complicated question for you:

The actual location of Smallville, like those of other fictional DC Universe cities, originally was never specifically stated in the comics.

Smallville's location varied widely throughout many stories, most of which placed Smallville close to Metropolis and Midvale, home of Supergirl. All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55 (notable for featuring the wedding of Legion of Super-Heroes members Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl and published in 1978) calls Smallville "a quiet town, nestled in the hills just inland from the eastern seaboard." In Amazing World of DC Comics #14 (1977), a magazine with articles on DC Comics characters and series, Smallville was stated to be in Maryland. The Maryland location was supported in the actual comics with a map of Smallville and the surrounding area that was published in New Adventures of Superboy #22 (October 1981), which situated Smallville a few miles west of a large bay very similar to Delaware Bay (the same map placed Metropolis and Gotham City on the east and west sides of the bay, respectively). Smallville was first placed in Kansas in the 1970s and 1980s Superman movies. Superman writer Elliot S! Maggin incorporated the Kansas location into the DC Universe in his 1981 Superman novel, Miracle Monday. Comic writer and artist John Byrne also placed Smallville in Kansas in his 1986 rewrite of Superman's origin.

In issue #13 of the Superman/Batman series (2004), Smallville is mentioned as being adjacent to the (equally fictional) town of Granville, Kansas. The name "Granville" comes from the 2000s television series Smallville; Smallville is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, which was called Granville until it was renamed in 1886, and Granville Street (a major arterial road in the city) as well as Granville Island (a small, man-made island and tourist attraction) still retain the name.

I hope this answer is acceptable for you. :cool:
 
QUESTION... with music, for example.. if you wanted to buy dylans greatest hits when the itunes music store first opened, you were able.. today, some years later YOU STILL ARE.. my question is, aren't tv shows volatile? i mean once the shows stop airing new episodes on tv, what's the motivation to keep them on itunes? wouldn't new shows need to fill their spots?:confused:
 
My question is when will we see Cartoon Network get on board??

I want to see some old skool cartoons and of the current line-up like Robot Chicken.

Also where is Star Trek Next Generation?
I know it's on G4TechTv now but come on!

And also when will we start seeing the Simpsons on here?? I mean hell they already have season 7 out on DVD now...they could atleast put out the first and second season of the Simspons.
 
At South Park's official FAQ, they said they have no plans to go iTunes anytime soon.

mpstrex
 
Wender said:
Where's the videos for non-US users? Come on, let's have it!
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It annoys me that in Canada we get US networks, we watch US shows, but we cannot download them from iTunes unless we are residents of the US. Furthermore the whole function of Video content to one's iTunes and hence their iPod is pretty much lost on the rest of the world, of course unless you use something like eyeTV to record your shows and then convert them. Woopty frickn' doo, more video for US customers and no video for the other apple users.
 
oooo Smallville. I've been out of the loop on that for a while. I started off NetFlixing (Blockbuster style.) the various seasons. When I hit the DVD wall I downloaded off of bittorrent. But that only took me up til I have no idea what season it was but it was when Clark was scouting out colleges. If Apple could get EVERYTHING I would be a very happy camper. :D
 
Archive and MTV deal is friggin huge!

CubaTBird said:
QUESTION... with music, for example.. if you wanted to buy dylans greatest hits when the itunes music store first opened, you were able.. today, some years later YOU STILL ARE.. my question is, aren't tv shows volatile? i mean once the shows stop airing new episodes on tv, what's the motivation to keep them on itunes? wouldn't new shows need to fill their spots?:confused:
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No, not at all. It doesn't cost Apple much at all to *keep* shows on iTunes. It's just bits sitting on a server's hard drive somewhere. People will always want to go back and view some old show. This is much different from DVDs or CDs where you go out of print until when or if demand builds again someday.

And as far as the content here, WOW, this MTV deal is friggin' huge. It marks a major shift for them...not just a change in MTV but a change in Apple's attitude as well. There were reasons why they weren't working together before that I won't reveal, but this is a very good thing.

Apple is getting very close to getting critical mass in TV/video content before anyone else is even getting off the ground.
 
Motivation

CubaTBird said:
QUESTION... with music, for example.. if you wanted to buy dylans greatest hits when the itunes music store first opened, you were able.. today, some years later YOU STILL ARE.. my question is, aren't tv shows volatile? i mean once the shows stop airing new episodes on tv, what's the motivation to keep them on itunes? wouldn't new shows need to fill their spots?:confused:
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Actually, this is the exact thing that should make this form of distribution favorable to producers / content providers. The "long tail" theory holds that you will have a peak of interest / most buying early in a piece's lifetime (be it music, book, movie, etc), and a gradual trailing off (or tail). However, this tail doesn't ever go to zero.

Traditional media (print, CD's, DVD's) don't work well on that model because there is considerable expense in keeping something physical in stock / in production. Digital media sits on servers, only taking up the space the server does. Only a relative few "master" copies are needed.

Folks get nostalgic for childhood shows / old favorites, and can easily buy them for a reasonable price. Take the A-Team for example. Sure, it only sells 5% (just a guess) as well as Lost, however, that's 5% better than nothing.

I forsee a time where pretty much any show that was ever remotely popular will be available. Just like it is with music. Just like it will be with movies (hopefully).

This is just the beginning. Any content producer / copyright holder that isn't jumping on board will be missing a huge source of low-overhead / high reimbursement revenue. They would be fools to not make their content available, and keep it available for as long as possible.

-alywa
 
There's some good news for any Drawn Together fan in the Press Release from Comedy Central

To promote and celebrate the deal, a download of a new episode of COMEDY CENTRAL's hit-animated reality series "Drawn Together" will be available on Monday, January 30, three days in advance of the February 1, network debut -- making this an "iTunes Episode Premiere."
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For non-fans it does bode well for future possiblities. ;)
 
ITR 81 said:
My question is when will we see Cartoon Network get on board??
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Transformers, Voltron, COPS, Bionic 6, Thundercats, Silverhawks, The Real Ghostbusters, MASK, G.I Joe, Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers, Ducktales, DarkWing Duck, Danger Mouse, Tailspin, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Garfield and Friends, He-Man (Gah I almost typed He-Mac), You can’t do that on telivision, Dungeons and Dragons, Count Duckula, and of course Robotech.
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That's off the top of my head. Apple could pay for a month of bandwidth if they put this out. I'd take out a second mortgage and buy em all.
 
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