I tried NBC out. Unbox via Windows XP via Parallels on Macbook Pro followed by fair4umv = OS X Quicktime playable files. Burned to DVD using Toast and watched on TV. Not something I want to do every day. I just wanted to watch a few of the prerelease shows. I use Mythtv and prefer commercial free tv anytime I want. I have 2 OTA HD tuners and one for Dish.
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No, MS make its money selling software (mostly from Office, IIRC). Apple makes its money selling hardware (computers, iPods, etc.,.).Microsoft doesn't make any money selling software...I think I would go blind watching things on a such a little screen.
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Superiority is perhaps the wrong word...but there's a huge difference in my mind. When you buy an album, how many times do you listen to it? Hundreds? Thousands? Who knows. How many times are you realistically going to watch a TV show? Even if you LOVE it, I can't imagine anyone is going to watch the same episode more than a few times. Even ten times. Still, it's a fraction of the number of listens one gets out of an album. Once you know the plot, the TV show is less interesting. But an album is a completely different experience, one that does not grow old or stale (unless, of course, it's some manufactured boy band crap or something, but I'm talking about real music...).
I disagree. More than anything else, people want to put shows on their iPod to watch on the train to work or whatever. NBC's move prevents them from doing so. Stupid.
I'd much rather pay $2/episode for the shows I watch and get rid of my Dish altogether. A season pass to a show on iTunes seems to be around $30-$40. Let's say $35. If I watch 10 shows (I watch less), that's $350 a year for all of the programming that interests me. Dish is charging me $100 a month. I'll GLADLY pay $2/episode and ultimately save $850 a year - and not have to suffer commercials either! That leaves plenty of dough left over to buy whatever TV series I really love on DVD.
Interesting editorial regarding the networks' direct-to-consumer mentality in today's Globe and Mail (Canada):
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/cyberia?cid=al_gam_nletter_dtechal
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/cyberia?cid=al_gam_nletter_dtechal
This thread seems dead, so I may end up asking again elsewhere -
Anybody have any ideas as to how this will affect the vintage shows from NBC? Season 3 of Hitchcock comes out 10/9, and it includes the presentation of what I believe is the greatest short story ever written - Lamb to the Slaughter. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not sure if NBC is pulling just their current works or the entire catalog.
Anybody have any ideas as to how this will affect the vintage shows from NBC? Season 3 of Hitchcock comes out 10/9, and it includes the presentation of what I believe is the greatest short story ever written - Lamb to the Slaughter. I'd like to buy it, but I'm not sure if NBC is pulling just their current works or the entire catalog.
Unless something changes by December, I believe all of their shows will disappear at that time. I'm still holding out hope that the new seasons of Heroes and The Office will appear, and everything will be happy once again.
An interesting note, two of NBC's new shows, Chuck and Journeyman, are now available (w/ season passes) on iTunes. No sign of the new season of Heroes yet though...
Too bad the director of The Office won't be able to watch new episodes on his iPod.
He was like an Apple commercial in his nbc.com interview.
Don't know if this was posted before, but here it is:
http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/#mea=116289
He was like an Apple commercial in his nbc.com interview.
Don't know if this was posted before, but here it is:
http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/#mea=116289
Where is this located? It is October, and I can't find the beta of this...
and do you guys think, to get around the license ending in a week, could you put it on your iPod and have it on there until you delete it? and maybe it will just get removed from your computer...
and do you guys think, to get around the license ending in a week, could you put it on your iPod and have it on there until you delete it? and maybe it will just get removed from your computer...