I like how they have the little peacock for the loading symbol instead of the normal apple gray spinning wheel. Clever!
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NBC Streams Full Episodes to iPhone and iPod Touch
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Largely due to the fact that it takes so long to load something. May as well get some ad time in.
Anyone find it funny that you could cook a turkey in the length of time you view the loading peacock?
I don't get it. You helped a guy on american idol make his logo for his defunct band and your street is clean? What does that have to do with nbc shows on an iphone?
I'm watching the latest episode of The Office on WiFi. Loading pretty quickly, but the quality is poo. For coming through WiFi, this could be loads better. But again, it's a start.
As far as Scrubs, you might have more luck with ABC. NBC is canceling the show and ABC is picking it up next season. I don't know what that'll do for streaming and such, but they might do something about it.
3g streaming
I would bet that the lower quality will allow streaming over 3g. Now, will ATT allow us to watch free TV over their 3g network? compare that to competing phones which let you watch tv but pay for minutes. If this works, this will drive iphone/touch sales like nothing else.
I would bet that the lower quality will allow streaming over 3g. Now, will ATT allow us to watch free TV over their 3g network? compare that to competing phones which let you watch tv but pay for minutes. If this works, this will drive iphone/touch sales like nothing else.
Until they bring the quality up to iPhone standards; count me out.
Can't deal with macro blocking and poor resolution. Nice try NBC.
Maybe you should take a hint from SJ and deliver quality.
Can't deal with macro blocking and poor resolution. Nice try NBC.
Maybe you should take a hint from SJ and deliver quality.
yeah but the problem is Apple & NBC butted heads over the price at iTunes (or the slicing of the pie) so getting two sets of big fat egos to get over it and try again is the problem.
That these guys were willing to get so invested in winning a spat over chump-change for TV show reruns really boggles my mind. All it does it tick off people who were actually buying the shows at the iTunes Store in the first place.
I mean it's not like these shows are baby formula or cat litter or beer or some other one of life's little necessities
so most of us probably just bailed on the idea of NBC reruns once the plug was pulled. I regarded them as impulse purchases. Now the money probably goes to iTunes movie rentals.Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)
The site does look very well done. This will be nice when traveling. Just more web content to burn down the battery on my iPhone but it doesn't bother me to charge it almost every night so bring it on. I guess it will mean I will be replaceing the battery sooner than I thought.
The site does look very well done. This will be nice when traveling. Just more web content to burn down the battery on my iPhone but it doesn't bother me to charge it almost every night so bring it on. I guess it will mean I will be replaceing the battery sooner than I thought.
Meh, just saying how I don't watch tv anymore, the only thing I know about on TV is David Cook. Plus my mom called me about it while I was writing the post. Its just kinda neat I guess. Sorry if it was off-topic.
I think I get it ....
To me, it just shows how inane television really is. The "masses" get brainwashed into actually caring about things that really don't matter much at all, while we ignore big issues that have massive, global ramifications.
I pretty much quit watching any regular television programming, years ago, because I always felt like it gave back so little "reward" in return for my free time. When I feel like just sitting down and being passively entertained, I opt for movies instead. Sometimes they're garbage too, unfortunately. But at least with a movie, it's designed as a stand-alone story. You generally get your 1 1/2 - 2 hour block of entertainment out of it, and can get on with life. It's not designed, like most TV shows, to keep you addicted to "tuning in next week" - as they leave you wondering what will happen with people X, Y and Z.
Sadly, more Americans probably know who David Cook is than know who to contact about local legislation affecting the district they live in. They probably know more about who didn't make the "cut" as "America's Top Model" than about alternative energy options being researched. Know what I mean?
To me, it just shows how inane television really is. The "masses" get brainwashed into actually caring about things that really don't matter much at all, while we ignore big issues that have massive, global ramifications.
I pretty much quit watching any regular television programming, years ago, because I always felt like it gave back so little "reward" in return for my free time. When I feel like just sitting down and being passively entertained, I opt for movies instead. Sometimes they're garbage too, unfortunately. But at least with a movie, it's designed as a stand-alone story. You generally get your 1 1/2 - 2 hour block of entertainment out of it, and can get on with life. It's not designed, like most TV shows, to keep you addicted to "tuning in next week" - as they leave you wondering what will happen with people X, Y and Z.
Sadly, more Americans probably know who David Cook is than know who to contact about local legislation affecting the district they live in. They probably know more about who didn't make the "cut" as "America's Top Model" than about alternative energy options being researched. Know what I mean?
I wish it was... at least the BBC has some content on their site. This site only has 2 different show and tons of "clips". The clip thing has been done before and no one is interested. Why not have all the current shows up on the site along with the news.....
Hulu.... this app... no one want to put up any content..... you can have 3G till the cows come home but if you don't have any good content- its worthless...