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- fuzzmeister, on 10/26/2007, -5/+268They just don't get it, do they?
- dtreichler, on 10/26/2007, -5/+81NBC's channel was the best thing about YouTube. That is, aside from people inflicting harm upon themselves.
- TGMD, on 10/26/2007, -6/+64Why god Why?
I loved that channel... - inactive, on 10/26/2007, -3/+55http://www.mininova.org/sub/308
- notBrit, on 10/26/2007, -4/+56Do they honestly think that removing Dick in a Box is a GOOD move?!?
Retards. - edaz323, on 10/26/2007, -2/+49No more The Office clips :(
- Thrash16, on 10/23/2007, -3/+33awe NBC! man,and to think, i thought you were cool...
- sishgupta, on 10/22/2007, -1/+30Or they could host it on youtube with a short NBC ad infront of the clip, get more views than they would on their own site, and do it for free while making money by selling their product.
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/23/2007, -5/+33Everyone is pulling their content from YouTube, and once the new filter goes into effect, content is going to be falling like as ship from heaven. Hell, I remember when I could watch episodes of everything on YouTube. Now I can't watch a full episode of any of the things I used to (South Park, ATHF, Sealab 2021, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, etc.)
There is a reality, and that reality is that YouTube is a fad. It's a site that rose to fame based on the sheer amount of pirated material, which never had a substantial revenue model, certainly not one capable of supporting content from big studios in a way which would create an inventive for them to allow their content to be viewed on YouTube.
Before you know it they'll be pulling the music videos as well, and the only thing that's going to be left on YouTube is videos of people getting hurt and skateboarding dogs. It's sad, and I wish it weren't so, but it's the truth. - chapium, on 10/26/2007, -9/+35Full episodes of their current shows are available on NBC.com and in better quality than youtube offers. The buffering doesnt work very nicely, but I watched the last episodes of The Office and Heroes this way. It was nice.
- realgoat21, on 10/23/2007, -0/+24no more SNL digital shorts?
:( - HappyScrappy, on 10/23/2007, -1/+23So it's pretty much now just "Americas Funniest Home Videos" but without Bob Saget.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -1/+22"Dick In A Box" is gone...
http://youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=a&c=23&l= - TyR88, on 10/22/2007, -1/+21I'm SHOUTING SO THAT TEH WHOLE INTERWEB HEARS MEE
- insomniac8400, on 10/22/2007, -2/+18Actually they pretty much do.
- hydrokool, on 10/22/2007, -1/+16If this is true, NBC is shooting themselves in the foot. YouTube.com is the 4th most visited site. The sad truth is networks are getting greedy and feel they can do more without the distribution channels (YouTube). What happens when Google turns to the networks and decides to charge a premium to help make the network shows popular for them?
- Dralite, on 10/22/2007, -4/+18Well... NBC ***** up again... Surprised? No...
- crazyman, on 10/22/2007, -0/+13This is a real shame. Especially since their full episode player sucks ass.
- eean, on 10/22/2007, -1/+13the whole point is, NBC is doing their own thing now. they dropped iTunes for the same reason.
Less middle-men the better as far as I'm concerned. Maybe in a few years the mainstream production companies will release shows on the Internet and cut out even NBC. - thebellmaster1x, on 10/22/2007, -1/+11...Did you seriously just censor the word "retard"?
- thefirstenemy, on 10/22/2007, -1/+10He actually meant he doesn't believe in Canada or Europe.
- ramsinks.com, on 10/22/2007, -4/+12Meh, piratebay>
- imdwalrus, on 10/22/2007, -0/+8That's not what the YouTube channel was for.
If I just want to watch, say, Dick in a Box or a three minute Conan segment, YouTube is going to be faster than dealing with their site and I won't have to worry about ads or buffering. - JamesZB, on 10/22/2007, -4/+12Just another reason to pirate.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -7/+15Another piece of history goes *poof* on youtube..
Don't trust online video services. If you see something really good keep a local of it. - ZenMojo, on 10/22/2007, -0/+8That wasn't what drove the YouTube model per se, I always thought it was skateboarding dogs and people getting hurt. That and whole versions of obscure television shows....
- Jadey, on 10/22/2007, -3/+11Geofencing can suck my *****.
- MacParrot, on 10/22/2007, -2/+9I was amazed that NBC pulled their content from Apple's iTunes service. So, no more BSG or Heros at $1.99.Tthey always seemed to schedule those shows when I couldn't be home and while I could certainly tape it or use a DVR, I don't watch enough TV to make it worth my while. I wonder where else I could get those shows on the internet that will work on my Mac? It a mystery for sure.
- devtrash, on 10/22/2007, -0/+7US only viewing
- chrgrose, on 10/28/2007, -0/+7Sucks. No more NBC for me I guess. Reminds me of when Viacom brought Stewart and Colbert down from Youtube last year. I couldn't get enough of them and looked forward to watching them at night. Then all of a sudden I lost interest. Wonder why.
- cambrown99, on 10/22/2007, -0/+6The run of brilliant moves by NBC/Universal continues...
Next up: who needs shows? Let's just show an hour's worth of commercials (oh wait, they already did that--it was called "The Apprentice") - dinh, on 10/22/2007, -0/+6I'm going to miss those SNL Digital Shorts =/.
- raneka, on 10/22/2007, -1/+7Why has NBC gotten so bitchy lately? They don't like iTunes anymore either.
- ibeetle, on 10/23/2007, -1/+7In less than 90 days Hulu will be completely forgotten like Urge and Connect. NBC will very quietly slink back to iTunes and in 18 months Hulu will be relaunched... 20 months... relaunched again... and then fade away only to be shut down before the end of its third year of operation.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -3/+9You mean they're like APPLE!!
Compared to Apple, MS is as open as the breeze! - Jeffler, on 10/22/2007, -1/+6"and don't give that ***** how you're in canada or europe."
So its totally fine to accept that they block out all non-US viewers? (AKA, 95% of the World?) - gbreed, on 10/22/2007, -6/+11Universal is like Microsoft. They want to get the most profit and total control. They don't realize that the more they lock down their content the more they are killing it.
- supremespleen, on 10/22/2007, -2/+7YouTube is about as much of a fad as talkies and color tv and the internet is.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -2/+7Who needs NBC anyway???!!!
- robalesi, on 10/22/2007, -8/+13It's hilarious that you all are looking at this like it's the big giant mean TV network picking on an indie start-up company. NBC is, along with FOX, trying to start their own site where you can easily do just what you are all asking to do. Watch their shows in their entirety for free. Yes, there might be a few commercials thrown in, but guess what, this is a business. Like it or not, if you enjoy any show on any network, you're a consumer. They are able to continue to make shows that you enjoy because advertisers pay them to give their products a national or local stage. If you remove that component and don't start an alternate way of revenue (IE: PBS pledge drives), you have no business plan.
Sure, you can get on your soapbox and say that "it shouldn't be a business", and "these guys just don't get it" but the fact remains that Youtube itself is going to have to use ad supported videos to start turning a profit for it's parent company google. Don't believe for a second that Google is prepared for Youtube to be is philanthropic wing. NBC's decision to remove it' channel from youtube is shearly a business move. It may pay off, it may not. But it should surprise or infuriate no one. - phantom_mullet, on 10/22/2007, -0/+5Hah, anyone else find it funny that Hulu, the name of NBC's new video site, means "cease" and "desist" in Swahili and "butt" in Indonesian and Malay?
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translat ... - OutThisLife, on 10/22/2007, -0/+4"anything unless your a complete idiot."
Lol, irony. - superkendall, on 10/28/2007, -1/+5You don't have to be an "Apple Fanboy" to doubt that a heavily DRM laden video store with only NBC content will fall off the face of the earth just like lots of others. NBC should have tried to do Hulu while also still keeping content on iTunes and YouTube, that way people could have tried out different services and saw which one they liked... as it is without content on iTunes or YouTube people will simply foget NBC shows exist and Hulu will be a wasteland. I certainly would never have gotten interested in SNL again withut seeing the "People getting punched just before eating" skit. Now SNL will fade from my memory just like much of the rest of the NBC lineup....
- skunkman62, on 10/22/2007, -2/+6first they break away from itunes, now its youtube. nbc also has a deal with newscorp aka fox, called hulu. i find this puzzling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-97pxT3LU
- HappyScrappy, on 10/22/2007, -1/+5Not on YouTube. But they'll still be on the internet, just at a different site. It's not like people refuse to watch videos if they're hosted on other sites than YouTube.
- mrsteveman1, on 10/22/2007, -0/+4Consumers, those silly people you depend on to watch your CURRENT programming.....yes what do we need them for?
- hypher, on 10/22/2007, -0/+4Just visit TBP. I'm sure you'll find more porn then you could ever want.
- insomniac8400, on 10/22/2007, -6/+10Just laughable. No one is going to go to nbc.com for videos. All that is going to happen is a youTube clone out of some stupid 3rd world country is going to sprout up and host all videos without taking anything down. youTube will die and the networks will have lost the chance to have any control.
- mancat, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3I guess we'll just have to learn to like it then.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -1/+4Huh?
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