Now, before all of you rush into the comments section below and jump down my throat with cries of "Bob, House is a FOX show! Will you get your facts straight?!", please note that even though it's on FOX, the show is actually produced by a subsidiary of NBC Universal. Oh the wacky world of television!
The high-rated Hugh Laurie drama has become the latest victim of the NBC Universal/iTunes battle. Most other NBC shows were pulled off Apple's music network several weeks ago after the two parties couldn't come to terms (Chuck and Journeyman are still available, because they aren't produced by NBC Universal). Amazon's Unbox now carries NBC shows.
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10-02-2007 @ 5:23PM
JW said...
I know you said that House is produced by NBC Universal, but most people probably don't even know that; with that said, I think FOX should have had the say so in whether or not House is on iTunes.
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10-02-2007 @ 5:40PM
Noah said...
I tried Unbox out last week with the Office premiere. Worst experience of my (downloading tv shows off the web legally) life. I bought the show, downloaded the stupid unbox player, then had to keep refreshing the thing to show my purchase, after that the show was put in a download que (what?!?!) and then took 2 hours to download (silly for high speed connection) before I could watch the episode. Take that versus the
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10-02-2007 @ 6:04PM
Backing Logan on this one said...
Bittorrent. Download. I don't care that it doesn't correspond to how the media giants want me to watch their content. And to those of you who will inevitably start blathering about how if everyone did that, there would be no advertising revenue and therefore no free broadcast TV anymore: please. I (and many of you) are technically-savvy enough to set up systems in my life that the vast majority of viewers lack either the knowledge or desire to use. Let those eyeballs provide the revenue stream--mine are busy.
Near-DVD-quality viewing within hours of the original broadcast, with commercials edited out. I'm in this for my entertainment pleasure, and anything the networks do to thwart that is just incentive for me to go around them.
Enjoy your iTunes.
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10-02-2007 @ 6:10PM
Backing Logan on this one said...
Download it for free. I don't care that it doesn't correspond to how the media giants want me to watch their content. And to those of you who will inevitably start blathering about how if everyone did that, there would be no advertising revenue and therefore no free broadcast TV anymore: please.
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I (and many of you) are technically savvy enough to set up systems in my life that the vast majority of viewers lack either the knowledge or desire to use. Let those eyeballs provide the revenue stream--mine are busy.
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Near-DVD-quality viewing within hours of the original broadcast, with commercials edited out. I'm in this for my entertainment pleasure, and anything the networks do to thwart that is just incentive for me to go around them.
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Enjoy your iTunes.
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10-02-2007 @ 6:43PM
Bash said...
I would love to watch these shows with commercials. In english. Here in germany.
That's impossible so I have to get them without commercials via BT *snicker*
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10-03-2007 @ 2:41AM
Sparky said...
anyone else notice the stolen warehouse of iPods on NBC's heroes this week? Surely if NBC hates apple so much they could have found ANY other valuable item for the thieves to be trafficking.
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10-02-2007 @ 10:41PM
Niraj Sanghvi said...
You know that NBC put up the premiere of The Office for free, right?
http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/episodes.shtml
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10-03-2007 @ 12:12AM
ukickmydog (NDF - Earth) said...
itunes eats my HDD and ipod space, bittorrent/encode = win win win
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