Thank you, TV Jesus. You know that you could buy TV
shows off the iTunes Music Store for a while now, but the offerings have been limited to five ABC shows with some
rumored talk of CBS joining in on the
game and even some mention of the possibility
of ESPN getting involved. My fellow blogger, David Chartier over at TUAW first spotted this this morning, when he noted that "Apple has added a ton of new shows to the iTMS from the likes of NBC, USA, SciFi and Disney. The Office, Monk, Battlestar Galactica (including the miniseries), The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Law & Order and Surface are among the newcomers. But wait! There's more: peep the vintage NBC shows like Knight Rider (no joke), Dragnet and even some Alfred Hitchcock." Launch iTunes now, navigate to the iTMS, and click on TV Shows now to check it all out for yourself.
The new Internet TV revolution has truly begun! Viva la revolution!
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12-06-2005 @ 10:26AM
R-Bro said...
That is so frackin' awesome. I've been waiting for this to happen for a long time. Now we just need the Napsters and Yahoos of the world to get with the program (ha!) so I can buy shows for my Zen Vision.
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12-06-2005 @ 12:56PM
Natrino said...
The previews for Battlestar Galactica are jacked. The preview for very episode I checked was from the "Previously on Battlestar Galactica" segment of the episode. So when watching a preview of an episode, it shows nothing from the actual episode.
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12-06-2005 @ 2:16PM
doc said...
I'm glad that things like this are starting to happen, but I don't think anyone should buy shows from iTunes. Just as I don't think anyone should buy music from them. The quality, the vendor lockin games, and the DRM headaches are dealbreakers for me. I would much rather see the market force the music/video online vendors into offering a better product. Give us unencumbered high fidelity WAV's that we can do what we want with. For video, either a high quality divx/xvid transfer, which will play on most platforms in a variety of applications, or possibly even mpeg2 that we can burn to dvd.
Until that happens, I just don't see the incentive for spending the equivalent price of a DVD set to get low res DRMd versions. I'd prefer to wait for the DVD and just rip them myself. Because, no matter how far into the sand the entertainment industry shoves their heads, anyone with google and the ability to click a mouse can rip DVDs. DRM on these files does nothing to prevent it. It only serves to annoy and discourage otherwise good customers.
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12-06-2005 @ 2:46PM
Jim said...
jeah, who wants this shows in crappy width 320 quality.
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