nytimes.com— NBC Universal announced plans for a service to make popular NBC programs available free for computers and other devices.
Sep 20, 2007View in Crawl 4
It is Free! So who gives a s**t about copy protection and DRM?I'm just glad that I can download 30 Rock while at work for free.NBC has been taking alot of s**t on Digg lately, so to me this is a big step in redeeming itself.
I would download it once and be pissed off because it's missing a quarter of the show, and avoid similar torrents. now if it had the whole episode, and light to no DRM I'd be fine with some side adds
Which helps me get it to my AppleTV and iPods how? It's still in Windows-only DRM that won't even play on the Zune. I don't watch much TV on my computer - it sits downstairs in my office. I watch my content on my AppleTV in my den and take it with me when I travel on my iPod. Besides, with my schedule, I am often several weeks behind on a particular season (I'm years behind on Buffy :-) so the 7-day time-out is also a no-go. WTF are they thinking?
NBC Universal is flopping around instead of going public with a coherent strategy. Looks like Steve Jobs really got under their skin. This feels like some of that good GE management. Ignorance in action fueled by arrogance, buzzwords and whiteboards. I do like the part where NBC Uni plans to push the shows to viewers, though. That feels new and smart. They really have no grasp of the audience they’re dealing with. In the decade that I worked with new media in Hollywood, I never met a studio exec who got it. The guy at New Line came closest. (Go look at the studios’ crummy Web sites.)
Closed AccountSep 20, 2007
It is Free! So who gives a s**t about copy protection and DRM?I'm just glad that I can download 30 Rock while at work for free.NBC has been taking alot of s**t on Digg lately, so to me this is a big step in redeeming itself.
manbeast01Sep 21, 2007
I would download it once and be pissed off because it's missing a quarter of the show, and avoid similar torrents. now if it had the whole episode, and light to no DRM I'd be fine with some side adds
ntropSep 21, 2007
Which helps me get it to my AppleTV and iPods how? It's still in Windows-only DRM that won't even play on the Zune. I don't watch much TV on my computer - it sits downstairs in my office. I watch my content on my AppleTV in my den and take it with me when I travel on my iPod. Besides, with my schedule, I am often several weeks behind on a particular season (I'm years behind on Buffy :-) so the 7-day time-out is also a no-go. WTF are they thinking?
nazzmanSep 22, 2007
NBC Universal is flopping around instead of going public with a coherent strategy. Looks like Steve Jobs really got under their skin. This feels like some of that good GE management. Ignorance in action fueled by arrogance, buzzwords and whiteboards. I do like the part where NBC Uni plans to push the shows to viewers, though. That feels new and smart. They really have no grasp of the audience they’re dealing with. In the decade that I worked with new media in Hollywood, I never met a studio exec who got it. The guy at New Line came closest. (Go look at the studios’ crummy Web sites.)
rocksteadySep 24, 2007
Will it be available to Canadians.....Hell no, we watch the CBC! F.T.S.!