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Over 1 Million NBC Downloads Since Return to iTunes

I "mostly" agree with those who guess that "most" of the 1 mil are the free episodes.... :) but my guess is that it's more like a 51% most than a 90% most.

IIRC, NBC left itunes last December, which leaves people's episode collections a full season behind. I would guess that many customers are going on a "catch-up" spending spree (no matter what half-ass avi episodes I, I mean they, torrented during the drought).

Maybe it wasn't more than half, now that I reconsider, but free downloads were certainly a substantial part of the 1 million. "Welcome back, NBC! Let us love you, you dumb-a**'s."
 
Cool, heroes in HD! i'll get me that :D thankyou!

qucik question the HD shows arnt out in the UK yet, :mad: If I buy heroes season 3 (when it starts, cant wait) for example in SD, then when HD shoes come to the UK can I get the HD versions at a lower price, I heard that when you download a HD movie you get a SD version aswell, so if you already have the SD version, and I just want to "upgrade" to a HD version do you get a discount? like the complete my album feature, you get the cost of the songs you already have deducted from the total price of the album.
 
No AppleTV HD TV love

You can not download HD TV shows from AppleTV! I just got burned by that. Apple should make this limitation more obvious, or at least label them HD or SD.

You can download HD movies from AppleTV, in fact, that's the only way to do it, but it's appears to be the oppisite with TV shows. This is very confusing.

To their credit they offered me a refund to allow me to download the HD version from iTunes, but this is sort of ridiculous. I wonder how many other people have made this mistake?
 
NBC should release every season finale from last year for free. That should increase interest in this season's episodes.
 
Buschmaster said:
Or Office or Monk or Psych?
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I work during the week at night when all these shows are on. I never even heard of Lost till I was reading a thread about how good it was a few months back and then went and bought every episode on iTunes. Yes, some of us don't get to watch TV at night.

I have no idea what new shows are even coming on this season.
 
How large are the file sizes for these HD episodes? I want to download BSG episodes, but I need to know how much space they will take up.
 
A warning: DO NOT watch that free Battlestar Galactica episode unless you've watched seasons zero (miniseries) through three already. It HUGELY spoils all previous seasons within moments, and it's a great series that you deserve to watch will all the surprises intact.

clalor said:
Try turning on one-click purchasing for these shows. There's some sort of bug that prevents you from purchasing many of the NBC shows when using the shopping cart. It worked for me with the Battlestar Galactica season 4 HD episodes.
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Yep--that worked for me. Before I did that, I downloaded the free HD episode and didn't realize at first that I was only getting standard definition. But switching to one-click got me the HD version (which you know right away because you get TWO copies of it--one HD and one standard-def for fast iPod loading).
 
Axemantitan said:
How large are the file sizes for these HD episodes? I want to download BSG episodes, but I need to know how much space they will take up.
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About 4.5Mbps. So multiply 4.5 x 60 to get your bitrate per minute. Then multiple that number by the number of minutes in the show/movie. In your case, 42 minutes for BSG. Then divide by 8 to go from bit to byte. So....

4.5Mbps x 60sec x 42min / 8 = ~1.4GB (I didn't bother to account for BASE-2 and BASE-10)
 
Not really HD

An hour TV show that is rougly 500 mb is not really HD. It is all about the mpbs. For example, eyeTV recordings are roughly 5 - 7 GB, and the mbps is 13 - 19, whereas the iTunes downloads are less than 2 mpbs.

The difference it quality is obvious on screens larger than 15"
 
I am thrilled that they are back. I finally got my Office and Battlestar Galactica episodes.


garty said:
I hope the NBC execs have learned form this episode.
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I hope both NBC and Apple execs have learned from this episode.
 
I've always stood firm that NBC was idiotic to pull out of iTunes. The fact that they claimed that the DRM wasn't strong enough and that the pricing wasn't at a high enough level for them was all ridiculous. $1.99 is reasonable for one episode of a (standard definition) TV show, but anything more than that is asking for far too much.

NBC had a good thing going with "Heroes" and "Monk" and so forth. I wonder what their opportunity cost was to leave the iTunes store for a while. :cool:
 
NBC comes crawlin' back begging for the greatest media and technology company in the history of the world ever (Apple) to have mercy, and allow NBC to have a profit on their mediocre shows -- mediocre with the exception of SNL; now that's some funny stuff. I've never seen a show as hilarious as the current SNL, LOL, ROFL -- if not for Apple, NBC would probably continue its downward spiral and go out of business. NBC is just lucky Apple is here to save them.
God I love Apple!
 
I hope they make HD episodes available for the rest of the Lost seasons, as well as Monk, and House (season 3 is SD).
 
milatchi said:
NBC comes crawlin' back begging for the greatest media and technology company in the history of the world ever (Apple) to have mercy, and allow NBC to have a profit on their mediocre shows -- mediocre with the exception of SNL; now that's some funny stuff. I've never seen a show as hilarious as the current SNL, LOL, ROFL -- if not for Apple, NBC would probably continue its downward spiral and go out of business. NBC is just lucky Apple is here to save them.
God I love Apple!
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Hey now 30 Rock kicks ass.
 
Yeah I downloaded a lot of TV shows. I kind of don't like the SD downloads since it's a lot wasted space, as I don't put videos on my iPod. Just downloading Office took out 20GB! That's a lot of space.
 
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