Working without any problems for me. But I'm still hazy, How are they expecting to make any money from this. No company is going to pay the kind of ad dollars for these as they do for broadcast TV, If a million people downloaded an episode of the office, they wouldn't possibly be able to make that in ad revenue??? I just don't get it.
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I got the same error and I'm in the USA...I can confirm it doesn't work outside the US, well it doesn't in the UK anyway, screenshot below...
I have to hand it to them about one thing, though. I was worried it wouldn't work offline. But it appears to work just as well online as it does offline.
I don't understand all the negativity. If NBC wants to try and provide their content online without the influence of Apple fine. As for me I'd never spend $1.99 per episode to download the video content from Apple. Minimal ads, while annoying, I can live with.
Why is Macrumors promoting these a*holes????
Why is Macrumors giving these maggots (read NBC U) free publicity after the stunt they just pulled asking for a cut of iPod sales? Do they ask Sony or Panasonic etc for a cut of TV sales ... do they ask Dell for a cut of their computer sales due to the fact they're watching their content on Dell Computers? This guy (Zucker) has major cojones!!!!! Please do not give NBC U any more promotional play here or I'll just have to boycott Macrumors as well as all NBC U content !!!!!
Why is Macrumors giving these maggots (read NBC U) free publicity after the stunt they just pulled asking for a cut of iPod sales? Do they ask Sony or Panasonic etc for a cut of TV sales ... do they ask Dell for a cut of their computer sales due to the fact they're watching their content on Dell Computers? This guy (Zucker) has major cojones!!!!! Please do not give NBC U any more promotional play here or I'll just have to boycott Macrumors as well as all NBC U content !!!!!
And I can't - if I had a choice between watching TV with ads & never watching TV again I would take the latter. You really have to not watch any TV for a year to realize how awful ads are & what kind of subliminal stress they are creating. Not to mention being tied to an Internet connection, clunky flash player, etc.
I just can't figure out why NBC needs to remove choice from the equation. Offer it for $2 through iTunes AND for free with ad support. If getting it for free with some ads is such a great thing, then why aren't people just watching it on TV in the first place?(or using their VCR/DVR). And wouldn't iTunes sales just dry up and become irrelevant if ad supported flash players were better, making the whole argument moot in the first place? It seems to me the smart thing to do is offer people a choice of how they are going to send their money to you, and let the market decide what method works best. Why limit yourself?
The answer to me is that businesses have an insane drive to maintain a stranglehold on their content. It is the only thing more important to them than money, and they will in fact sacrifice profits to avoid giving up even the slightest amount of control. I haven't quite worked out the motivation for this yet, although I have the suspicion that it might be that deep down they realize they need creative people a lot more than creative people need them, and that if the creative folks ever truly realized this they would insist on actually getting a fair share of the profits. If you lock everyone out of distribution with your economic might, then people don't start to realize that distribution is the EASY part. Look at what is happening to the record companies, and I think music itself is actually seeing a creative resurgence.
Goodbye Corporate Greed
The days of movie and music companies making fat profits at the consumers expense are fast disappearing. And boy, can you hear the complaints from these companies. No longer will they be able to control their industry and make huge profits for overpriced commodities. What a shame.
The days of movie and music companies making fat profits at the consumers expense are fast disappearing. And boy, can you hear the complaints from these companies. No longer will they be able to control their industry and make huge profits for overpriced commodities. What a shame.
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I never knew that. The vanishing is such a revelation. Thank you.
who cares?
Presumably, it will be just as easy to:
(A) switch on tv
(B) set recording device to 'record'. (gasp, faint, put head in ice box, etc)
(C) Watch on 'recording' device through tv screen at later date.
(D) edit out ads if you so choose.
Or if its FREE, then WHY isnt it on iTunes?
Can anyone explain to me why fat old capitalists just CANT let go of their buggy-whip businesses?
I propose a law: When you have $5 million bucks, you MUST quit and go paint watercolours, unless you work for FREE.
We can call it the Greed Modifying Law.
Whats happening is that all the 'stake holders' are threatening each other in a giant and horrible greed-based, media-business cluster-fu*k unimaginable to normal people.....
Presumably, it will be just as easy to:
(A) switch on tv
(B) set recording device to 'record'. (gasp, faint, put head in ice box, etc)
(C) Watch on 'recording' device through tv screen at later date.
(D) edit out ads if you so choose.
Or if its FREE, then WHY isnt it on iTunes?
Can anyone explain to me why fat old capitalists just CANT let go of their buggy-whip businesses?
I propose a law: When you have $5 million bucks, you MUST quit and go paint watercolours, unless you work for FREE.
We can call it the Greed Modifying Law.
Whats happening is that all the 'stake holders' are threatening each other in a giant and horrible greed-based, media-business cluster-fu*k unimaginable to normal people.....
Forget NBC...
Apple has that nice little 'hobby' as they call it... the AppleTV, which along with the iPod and Macs and PCs with iTunes are all media display devices. Of course iTunes is the media manager and iTunes is (was) the source for non-NBC (NBC) content.
Now if a particular broadcaster (NBC) doesn't want to support the iTunes model, all that we need from Apple is to connect our Mac or PC to a simple DVR type device that plugs into cable or satellite content sources, a device that is simple and provides seamless content integration like only Apple knows how to do, such that iTunes lets the user record the content DVR-style on their Mac or PC and view it in iTunes, or sync with / view on the user's Apple TV or iPod.
Simple stuff for Apple, or they could easily buy this technology or any of the small companies that have experience.
Apple has that nice little 'hobby' as they call it... the AppleTV, which along with the iPod and Macs and PCs with iTunes are all media display devices. Of course iTunes is the media manager and iTunes is (was) the source for non-NBC (NBC) content.
Now if a particular broadcaster (NBC) doesn't want to support the iTunes model, all that we need from Apple is to connect our Mac or PC to a simple DVR type device that plugs into cable or satellite content sources, a device that is simple and provides seamless content integration like only Apple knows how to do, such that iTunes lets the user record the content DVR-style on their Mac or PC and view it in iTunes, or sync with / view on the user's Apple TV or iPod.
Simple stuff for Apple, or they could easily buy this technology or any of the small companies that have experience.
This is one area where I'm with NBC. Music is one thing...paying for a song is worth it because I'll listen to it over and over. A TV show, however, I'll watch once and delete it. I don't want to pay $2 for that privilege. I watch a lot of shows online, but the quality sucks. Hulu looks pretty good.
And it's not like you get the full 4 minutes of ads every ten minutes. What I've seen so far is only a single ad. I can handle that. Since I'm on my computer anyway, I'll just hit a website during the break. To watch it for free, I can easily put up with that.
And it's not like you get the full 4 minutes of ads every ten minutes. What I've seen so far is only a single ad. I can handle that. Since I'm on my computer anyway, I'll just hit a website during the break. To watch it for free, I can easily put up with that.
Invites get someone in to Hulu? If so, I'd love one, too, if anyone has an invite to spare.
NBC Universal & News Corp
Not sure if it had already been mentioned, but I feel it's at least pertinent to point out that the partnership is between NBC Universal (One company these days) and News Corporation. If they somehow succesfully tie this into myspace, it has a heck of a lot more staying power than if it's just this random site that offers 7 years-canceled shows like "The Pretender", but man I did love that show.
I for one, want to be able to download it and watch it on my own time. Put ads in it if you want and give it to me free, but I want it so I can watch it wherever. I'm waiting for Google and Apple to just make an ad supported option and have shows all up on You Tube for us to access via Apple TV, iPhones, etc.
Not sure if it had already been mentioned, but I feel it's at least pertinent to point out that the partnership is between NBC Universal (One company these days) and News Corporation. If they somehow succesfully tie this into myspace, it has a heck of a lot more staying power than if it's just this random site that offers 7 years-canceled shows like "The Pretender", but man I did love that show.
I for one, want to be able to download it and watch it on my own time. Put ads in it if you want and give it to me free, but I want it so I can watch it wherever. I'm waiting for Google and Apple to just make an ad supported option and have shows all up on You Tube for us to access via Apple TV, iPhones, etc.
The quality isn't any better than on nbc.com, too small to watch, and I can't load it on my iPod (which I can plug into my projector).
I'd rather pay the $1.99 and be able to watch it anytime, whether now or in a year from now (reruns on demand!).
Too bad.
I'd rather pay the $1.99 and be able to watch it anytime, whether now or in a year from now (reruns on demand!).
Too bad.
this is great!
i'm super excited to be able to watch my favorite shows again...and for free! who cares if we have to watch an ad here and there-- we do that on regular TV anyway (or at least we fast forward through them on DVR).
with this and amazon's excellent new music store offering, i'm one step closer to doing away with iTunes altogether!! keep the competition coming!
i'm super excited to be able to watch my favorite shows again...and for free! who cares if we have to watch an ad here and there-- we do that on regular TV anyway (or at least we fast forward through them on DVR).
with this and amazon's excellent new music store offering, i'm one step closer to doing away with iTunes altogether!! keep the competition coming!
Let's see if I have this correct:
I can flip on my TV and, for the cost of electricity, watch a show.
I can flip on my compute and, for the cost of electricity & DSL, watch a show.
Alternatively, for the latter using a computer, electricity & DSL, plus a small fee, download into a computer player for backup, and a portable player for viewing.
So the first two are variations on each other with no portability, and the latter is the 21st century model of the other two.
Why is NBC living in the past?
I can flip on my TV and, for the cost of electricity, watch a show.
I can flip on my compute and, for the cost of electricity & DSL, watch a show.
Alternatively, for the latter using a computer, electricity & DSL, plus a small fee, download into a computer player for backup, and a portable player for viewing.
So the first two are variations on each other with no portability, and the latter is the 21st century model of the other two.
Why is NBC living in the past?
Actually they do, they get 3 cents per TV sold. All Affiliates get 3 cents on a TV set sales.
Hulu on iphone/ipod touch
If hulu will play over wifi on the webrowser on the iphone/ipod touch, that would be very cool. No?
edit: I just realized that hulu is flash based, the iphone doesn't support flash(yet). I think it is in apple's best interest to support flash, so that people who have an iphone can have access to more media, which will sell more iphones.
If hulu will play over wifi on the webrowser on the iphone/ipod touch, that would be very cool. No?
edit: I just realized that hulu is flash based, the iphone doesn't support flash(yet). I think it is in apple's best interest to support flash, so that people who have an iphone can have access to more media, which will sell more iphones.
The negativity surrounds the fact that NBC wanted Apple to raise to price per episode from $1.99 to as much as $4.99 AND wanted a cut of iPod and iPhone sales.