well that's way better than abc media player. which actually wants you to click and close the commercials between chapters of a show. They want you to confirm that you've seen the exact same commercial 6 times. If anyone there is listening here. any product i have to watch and ad of 6 times, forcibly is a product i will go out of my way to not purchase.
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well that's way better than abc media player. which actually wants you to click and close the commercials between chapters of a show. They want you to confirm that you've seen the exact same commercial 6 times. If anyone there is listening here. any product i have to watch and ad of 6 times, forcibly is a product i will go out of my way to not purchase.
Full Screen Hulu
Am I missing something? There's no full screen available. What gives? This low quality version is nice to have I guess, but I believe people want to pay for the better quality of DVD box sets and Season Passes from iTunes for their favorite shows commercial free and Full Screen in close to DVD quality. This is good if you want to see a show to get into it a bit. But the really need to add full screen. I'd like to see this model on iTunes that offers this for free with full screen and other Apple touches. They could even put an overlay at the bottom of the commercial, "Buy the complete Season of _____ Commercial for for $26.99"
Am I missing something? There's no full screen available. What gives? This low quality version is nice to have I guess, but I believe people want to pay for the better quality of DVD box sets and Season Passes from iTunes for their favorite shows commercial free and Full Screen in close to DVD quality. This is good if you want to see a show to get into it a bit. But the really need to add full screen. I'd like to see this model on iTunes that offers this for free with full screen and other Apple touches. They could even put an overlay at the bottom of the commercial, "Buy the complete Season of _____ Commercial for for $26.99"
I have a DVR, and I like DVDs of full seasons of my favorite shows, Rescue Me, HBO's Band of Brothers, but for me I have no real reason to buy individual episodes or to subscribe to full season's via iTunes. I like the iTS mostly for music, some music vids and have actually purchased 1 movie. I have an Apple TV and can Handbrake and stream anything out of my DVD library. 1st kid on the way in Dec, so eliminating DVDs to get lost/scratched/trashed and going to a total digital library is ideal for me. But again for my content. No thanks NBC, I didn't need you anyway.
I've watched the Bionic Woman in that format. Its not bad. Full screen quality is good. Ads are are short but annoying. Can't watch it on my ipod touch because of flash (hint hint Apple!
). Scifi.com uses a similar format but quality is very bad
). Scifi.com uses a similar format but quality is very badThe Office US is great, but NBC sucks. Just another greedy company, no content playable outside the US, and they've just shown that they can't cope with someone else showing them the way.
Apple reinvented the way for them, now they turn their backs...with its much larger financial clout, Apple should just buy that crap and put it on public domain.
Apple reinvented the way for them, now they turn their backs...with its much larger financial clout, Apple should just buy that crap and put it on public domain.
I know this has a lot of negatives, but I like it. I'd much rather have free TV shows with ads than pay for TV shows without ads. Movies and music, on the other hand, I prefer ad-free.
At the same time, I don't see why NBC can't simultaneously have this service with ads and iTunes for all those that prefer to pay for ad-free content. Guess folks will just rip their DVDs or pirate it (not that I condone pirating it).
I agree. Fortunately, this player is much better. I wanted to scream trying to watch shows on NBC's site. That was a terrible experience.
At the same time, I don't see why NBC can't simultaneously have this service with ads and iTunes for all those that prefer to pay for ad-free content. Guess folks will just rip their DVDs or pirate it (not that I condone pirating it).
I agree. Fortunately, this player is much better. I wanted to scream trying to watch shows on NBC's site. That was a terrible experience.
Here is a step by step.
1. Turn on zooming by pressing option command 8
2. Zoom in by pressing 'option command ='
3. Get p'd off with your mouse pointer for being in the way / nbc for not knowing how to apologise (apologize) sincerely (country dependent)
4. Zoom out by pressing 'option command -'
5. Swear at monitor for ridiculous lack of content available on mac from BBC.
7. Pay license fee for drm'ed content for windows users
8. Watch regular TV 'til this all sorts itself out
I can't believe all the "negatives" on this, lol. Personally I'd rather not pay money for media I don't have control over. Walk out of the room during an ad or two though? That's fine. I didn't realize 9 out of every 10 people (based on the negative votes here) preferred to pay for DRM'd content... If that's really the case, then I'm sure it will make more financial sense for NBC to return to iTunes.
Meh... I have to watch it on my computer. The thing aboutTV that I like is that I can watch stuff on my ::gasp:: TV.
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I am glad I am not the only one that thinks/feels this way
My DVR acted funky last week and some of my series recordings were gone, causing me to miss House and Friday Night Lights.
I went to my Mac and found FNL on NBCs website last night and watched, well my first attempt at 9 PM didn't work. Commercials played with no problem but then the main show wouldn't start.
So I came back at 11 and it finally worked. It sucked.
"Full Screen" just, well, isn't full screen. Then commercials caused the player to minimize again making me 'maximize' the show once it got back under way.
I was never one to buy itunes shows unless I missed an episode, and up until last week, I never did. But I'll tell you this, I would have preferred to pay 1.99 and watch the show on my 61" DLP via Apple TV then to put up with the garbage player and having to watch from my computer.
I went to my Mac and found FNL on NBCs website last night and watched, well my first attempt at 9 PM didn't work. Commercials played with no problem but then the main show wouldn't start.
So I came back at 11 and it finally worked. It sucked.
"Full Screen" just, well, isn't full screen. Then commercials caused the player to minimize again making me 'maximize' the show once it got back under way.
I was never one to buy itunes shows unless I missed an episode, and up until last week, I never did. But I'll tell you this, I would have preferred to pay 1.99 and watch the show on my 61" DLP via Apple TV then to put up with the garbage player and having to watch from my computer.
Ha! I have to agree. ITV are coming to iTunes it appears though. Wish Channel 4 would drop the whole 4OD service, its cr*p and no-one uses it, just wasting valuable ad time.
Do these companies all actually believe that the consumer is going to go from site to site looking for content direct from the broadcaster? I'm sorry but that is ridiculous and unsustainable. They're getting seriously greedy.
Apple: please just buy Endemol and the company that makes the simpsons. License the BBC's back catalog. and im happy, I dont really care for anything else.
That may be the case for some, but not for me. Although I want to download shows on the computer I don't want to watch them on the computer. I had planned on purchasing a season pass this fall for Heros, but since it's not on iTunes anymore I'm not going to Hulu.com. I just won't watch it. This isn't any sort of a protest, but simply a consequence to their content no longer being available in the format I want. If they care, they lost my $29.99 (or however much the season pass would have cost).
No iTunes = me no watchy
So what, I will never sit in front of my computer to watch TV. That's why I have an iPhone & anTV. I want to watch where (ala iPhone) and when I choose. I won't bother with this just like I do not bother with it on TV.
On iTunes I would have bought them all and watched where & when I wanted - ad free. It's s good sitcom, but only if it fits my schedule & watching needs.
Sell me great content for myTV!
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So what, I will never sit in front of my computer to watch TV. That's why I have an iPhone & an
TV. I want to watch where (ala iPhone) and when I choose. I won't bother with this just like I do not bother with it on TV. On iTunes I would have bought them all and watched where & when I wanted - ad free. It's s good sitcom, but only if it fits my schedule & watching needs.
Sell me great content for my
TV!.
Zune
And I hope they enjoy that $243.67 that they made from Zune sales...
WAY better than $15,000,000.00...
And I hope they enjoy that $243.67 that they made from Zune sales...
WAY better than $15,000,000.00...
The ads that I saw in it lasted 5 seconds.
Supposedly you can do full screen from the actual site.
arn
