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- TheFinaleofSeem, on 11/04/2007, -15/+717Wow. Just. *****. WOW. They not only wanted to jack prices up, but they also wanted a cut of the iPhone and iPod sales, saying, "Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content and made a lot of money". You stupid, greedy, ***** delusional PIG! Yeah, it was all NBC content that drove sales of iPods and iPhones. Nah, the iPod wasn't a huge success prior to NBC on iTunes. And the iPhone was popular for a helluva lot more than just movies on the go. Thanks NBC, you've shown us what a bunch of stinking, greedy, lying bastards you are.
- easy4lif, on 11/04/2007, -10/+520used to buy, now I bittorrent.
guess NBC thought my money wasn't good enough for them - NSResponder, on 10/31/2007, -8/+220Zucker still a moron, film at 11.
-jcr - felidaeus, on 10/31/2007, -3/+185So, popping over to Amazon, the current average pricing for a new season box set is approximately $40-50.
Now, that is for an average season of saaaaay, 22 episodes. Conservative.
According to the article NBC demanded of apple: "a twofold increase in the wholesale price of its TV show content, which would have resulted in the retail price to iTunes customers increasing to $4.99 per episode from $1.99. "
So let's do the math. For a net cost to NBC per episode of hmmmm, $0 per episode sold on Itunes. They were getting, let's say, $1.50 with a really really big cut for apple. That nets them about $34 per season, not bad considering it costs them nothing in packaging, and people are quite likely to pay that $1.99 for an episode rather than worrying about taping it and so on and so forth. In fact, i'm betting people are more likely to buy those episodes than download them. Whereas they might be more likely to download them if their only option was a straight out $50 buy AFTER they've seen all the episodes.
They wanted to up that to $4.99. With a major cut to apple, they would make about $4.00 per episode. For a season of 22 eps, that makes...... $88. For a season box set complete with nice covers and a big box worth $40-50.
Yah, I'm calling BS on that one. - Zero2aHero, on 10/31/2007, -1/+177I find it amusing that he is portraying Apple as weapon carrying brutes forcing labels into their pricing scheme. If labels aren't happy with what Apple wants to do then how about just not put your content up on iTunes? Nobody in the music industry has any right to tell other people what they are doing wrong. If labels are so unhappy with what iTunes did to the music industry then they must be REALLY pissed that Amazon is selling stuff for cheaper. But... they... signed... contracts.
Shut up NBC, shut up. - yabos, on 11/05/2007, -3/+163Earth to NBC, $1.99 is already too much.
- Duffeh, on 10/31/2007, -3/+120So... don't buy anything from Hulu.com, got it.
- nace33, on 11/01/2007, -14/+128Apple can cure all of this by just putting an HD Tuner on the back of the mac mini or AppleTv.
- etc1981, on 11/01/2007, -3/+115"Let's see...ruin NBC by having no successor to Friends, Will & Grace, etc. and "killing" must see TV? Check! Begging viewers to illegally download network content by ripping the content off a legit pay-for location easily accessible to most everyone? Check! And last, but certainly not least,..reassemble the cast of Veronica's Closet.." - Jeff Zucker's inner-dialogue
- scooter72, on 10/31/2007, -12/+121OK... time to BOYCOTT NBC! Pass/Digg it on!
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 10/31/2007, -3/+111Please don't misspell in a fashion that appears deliberate.
- kodybryson, on 11/01/2007, -4/+111Lately Digg has been so full of Apple Fan Boys vs Apple Fan Boy Haters. Thank you NBC for being so evil and hateful that you bring the rest of us together. In your own way you provide us with temporary world peace while we all make plans to destroy you.
- andycr512, on 10/31/2007, -2/+103Excuse me, media is still -way- too expensive. Try again, NBC.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 11/01/2007, -3/+93They are *****.
They're out with Hulu.com now... tell me that wasn't planned.
They were leaving anyway and they decided to see if they could throw Apple a raw deal instead.
End of story. - applepro, on 10/30/2007, -4/+92***** NBC. They can pay $5 for a DRMed *****-sucking.
- mlostracco, on 10/31/2007, -0/+88I assume that, by that logic, NBC will now be asking for a cut of profits from DVD players, television sets, headphone manufacturers, microphone manufacturers, audio cable vendors, camcorder products, hard disk manufacturers...
- brendon2020, on 10/31/2007, -3/+89hahaha "seeking a cut of Apple hardware sales -- such as the iPod and iPhone"
- akira117, on 10/31/2007, -4/+78I love how these companies think people will search for legal ways of watching shows.
- Shatneresque, on 11/01/2007, -3/+73This NBC guy is just parroting the company line. Remember NBC is owned by Universal. Universal has been out to get a cut of hardware sales since forever. They even got MS to give them a cut of Zune sales, thinking that would put pressure on other manufacturers to do the same (which it didn't).
Universal really doesn't have any leverage anymore when it comes to selling their music on iTunes. They don't dare pull out of it, since it has gotten way too big and they can't do without it. It's too late for them to make demands or dictate terms.
On the other hand, iTunes' TV business is still relatively small, so Universal thinks they can use NBC's TV shows as a bargaining chip to get what they want. This is a desperation tactic and will likely fail. - xXGeechXx, on 10/31/2007, -6/+68Destroyed it?
Didn't they practically invent it? If it wasn't for Itunes no one would be purchasing music online. - Assezdefromage, on 10/30/2007, -3/+63then change your settings to block profanity. then people can do whatever they want and you won't be offended.
- thebellmaster1x, on 10/31/2007, -3/+62Apple does not make TV shows. What the hell are you talking about?
Oh, also, if you have more than one thing to say, FFS, don't use three comments to say it. It's a waste of my monitor's electrons. - secretmode, on 10/31/2007, -12/+71lol I am here just to bury HungarianHuman
- CannedMango, on 10/31/2007, -2/+60Read as: "Apple made it too difficult for us to establish an inflated markup price for digital media that would become the standard and accepted by users."
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -11/+66Yeah, you stupid ***** ***** ridden *****!!
- kashem, on 10/31/2007, -1/+52Just for that comment I'm buying something from iTunes, and for every iTunes purchase, I'll torrent 5 NBC files even though I won't watch them.
- whataboutdave, on 10/30/2007, -0/+51blocked
- Giga, on 10/31/2007, -9/+59For the love of God, please stop signing your posts!
- DudeAsInCool, on 11/01/2007, -3/+50You forgot to add that NBC doesn't want to share any of the online sales with the writers, who created the shows in the first place. Zucker should look in the mirror if he wants to see the face of greed.
- djkaos, on 10/31/2007, -1/+48Wah Wah Wah.... Funny how you hear all this talk about letting the market set the price of things... except for when the market is telling you revenue model is last century, you whine about how the guy who's got it right is killing your business. Typical hypocritical *****.
- Scheissen, on 10/31/2007, -1/+46Boycott Hulu, let them get stuck with the bill of hosting a site that no one wants.
- bobablob, on 10/31/2007, -1/+42NBC announces that Sony makes a great deal of money selling TVs that will be tuned in to NBC's (crappy) programming. News at 11!
- rwt316, on 10/31/2007, -2/+41Everyone should e-mail and write NBC and let them know that their alternative to iTunes is horrible. I tried their service under duress, and it was awful, it would hang, or cut out to the commercials, and not even let you know what was happening. One word PAINFUL. Moreover, you cannot download the programs and take them with you. If I had time to sit down and watch the TV show I would, that is why I have a DVR. I want to take my content with me and I'm willing to pay for it. Finally, what the hell are they thinking 5 bucks for a 20 minute show like The Office, no thanks. NBC needs to wake up and stop treating their customer like they don't matter. Okay NBC, you may be hot now, but I remember a time when you could not find a hit show if it was parked in front of the 30 Rock - GET A CLUE NBC
- GeneralFailure0, on 10/31/2007, -10/+47I can has typoz?
- zzyzy, on 10/31/2007, -1/+37Oh yeah... try this on for size, Zucker...
"Toshiba, RCA, and Sony sold millions of dollars worth of televisions off the back of our content and made a lot of money," he said. "They did not want to share in what they were making off their televisions or allow us to adjust pricing."
Gee, without the TV's in the first place, you wouldn't have a business. Period.
Laughable. - chicoer2001, on 10/30/2007, -0/+34Is NBC trying to kill it self every chance it gets? What's its next stunt?
- beatmonger, on 10/31/2007, -1/+34You forgot the ridiculous cross-advertising they stick at the bottom of their shows now. It drives me insane seeing the bottom 1/4 of the screen turn into an advertisement for Phenomenon or some equally ***** show I have no interest in watching.
- clbw, on 10/31/2007, -2/+33The exec show their color now, as obvious as it is all they want to do is provide minimum product for maximum profit. what is with these dick heads I am all for capitalism, but I don't think the the idiots will ever get it! All this does is it increases people to WANT to download content illegally! I think as a consumer that .99 is the high end of the pricing scheme why and the hell do they think we want to pay more!
- GregR, on 10/30/2007, -1/+32It just shows that NBC (and the music industry in general) doesn't understand that their business has changed and how if the keep acting like this instead of figuring out how to make the technology work for them they are going to be by-passed.
- Oronar, on 10/31/2007, -1/+32See his other comments, they're even worse...
"i dont know how to pronounce nvidia so i will NEVER buy their products"
"hate wikipedia i can never spell it right and i can never find it"
"i wouldn't "upgrade" to leopard if you paid me a million dollars the day i stop supporting microsoft is the day i die" - ungamedplayer, on 10/30/2007, -1/+32Come get it.
- setrusko, on 10/30/2007, -2/+32What an idiot. If it wasn't for iTunes everyone would still be torrenting all of their music. I like how everyone wants a cut of Apple's iPod profits all the time. If it wasn't for the iTunes store the iPod would still be the best MP3 player on the market.
- eQUIV, on 10/31/2007, -1/+31Wow, I guess all these electronics companies making televisions and digital cable boxes should start paying out cash to NBC as well. Coz I guess people are only buying those because they want to watch NBC shows. And obviously people only buy DVD players so they can purchase and watch boxsets of NBC television shows. Incase you're not detecting the sarcasm... What a ridiculous, asinine, self-righteous statement. I guess all media devices revolve around the NBC world.
- sonictonic, on 10/30/2007, -0/+28Dugg to show how much more of an idiot this guy is.
- hammerpants, on 10/30/2007, -2/+30I'm one of those idiots that actually pays for most of my media downloaded online. I'm loyal to the companies that seem like they give a rip about me, even with annoying DRM. But look at this guy...he's admitting that he wants to screw NBC's most loyal fans, and he doesn't care which ones, just that he gets to jack the prices up on SOMEONE. This is why guys like Trent Reznor and Radiohead are long overdue...people who are rewarding their most loyal fans, not punishing them.
- virtualball, on 11/01/2007, -5/+32I completely agree. What these idiots don't understand is that I'd rather pay $1.99 for a video that I can play on my computer, my iPhone, and when I'm offline than watch a free flash video. Also, I'd rather torrent to spite NBC! They don't deserve my money, they put out B-Quality shows (Besides the Office) and they apparently don't even want my money.
- node3, on 11/01/2007, -5/+32Not really. iTunes is *vastly* more convenient and reliable than using a tuner.
You don't have to worry about commercials, missing a recording, pre-empting, broadcast outage, time change not reflected in your DVR listing, overlapping shows, shows starting 1-minute early to thwart DVRs, not receiving the channel in question, reception (for OTA) or a cable bill (for cable).
Tuners are great, but they aren't a proper replacement for iTunes. The other way around is true as well (iTunes isn't a replacement for a tuner--iTunes can't show you live programming until after the fact). They both fill similar, but not fully coinciding needs.
jcr is right, El Gato has a few HD tuners, and they work very well. Still, I'd prefer to have the option of tuner or iTunes for NBC. I guess NBC doesn't want my money... - mlostracco, on 10/30/2007, -0/+23Especially the animated ones. Like when some little fat person with a measuring tape runs across the screen every five minutes to advertise NBC's 'The Biggest Loser.' LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!
And don't even get me started about scrunching the credits into an unreadable jumble at the end of a show and speeding them up 10x in order to get more ads and promos in. Anyone ever see the end credits of Entertainment Tonight? Why even bother? - oenoneablaze, on 10/30/2007, -0/+23soo... you _want_ NBC to increase prices? If you want to get dugg up, you should probably take it to the "Apple doesn't accept cash anymore!" article.
- themuffinman, on 10/31/2007, -2/+24Amazing...someone finds a way to legally offer a product at a price point cheaper than everyone else, and becomes incredibly popular. NBC, capitalism; capitalism, NBC.
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