also, to those of you get your tunes from Amazon instead of iTunes:
you do it ’cause it’s cheaper, right? doesn’t that prove the whole iTunes business model absolutely correct? make it easy and make it cheap.

like it or not, music and TV are commodity products. the cost will always be approaching zero.

same to those of you who watch the NBC shows online, whether at Hulu, or NBC Rewind (NOT Direct), or BravoTV, or whatever. You’re proving iTunes’ point.

just wait until you accidentally get more than a few weeks behind on your favorite TV show. or decide that you want to try to watch a new show, from the beginning (like i currently wish i could do with “Chuck”, without paying for it).

NBC may never come back, but that will probably be more because TV as we know it is dying. i’m counting the days to the television’s demise. go WGA!

All of you that said it works fine on your MacBook are using the NBC Rewind product, which is a Flash 8/9 based streaming player.

As far as international distribution is concerned, this is a repetitive request made by a community that does not understand the content rights process. It is not NBC that decides “where” or “how” content is available; there are many stakeholders in the value chain (most importantly, the content owner) that make these decisions.

It’s amazing that after all this time, no one has ever made a blog post outlining the content windowing and rights process. Arrington, are you listening?

What label is Alicia Keys on?

….yet you knew Heros was on NBC, and I’ll bet you didn’t have to check.

A friend of mine summed it up nicely: “I don’t watch *television* I watch television *programs*”

Perhaps there’s a market for brand identity with a network but can anyone tell me what network has the suckitude that is “2 And A Half Men” vs “Men in Trees” vs “The Signing Bee” Although in looking to see what networks offer programs NBC has the ones I like best.

It started with DVRs (subscribing to shows, not networks), and of course iTunes is just another example of disassociating the shows from the networks. Things like Hulu will only succeed if they can get all the content, which they won’t because NBC’s competitors will be loath to participate. They may hate Apple, but iTunes is, at least, neutral territory. What they all refuse to admit is that they, like record labels, are just middle men on the consumer-facing side of the business. If they focused on producing top-quality content without regard to keeping control of distribution, the networks would already have arrived at their new business model, and wouldn’t be afraid of putting their content *everywhere* in hopes of figuring out what consumers want.

So what’s the big deal?

terrible move NBC. Good luck catching up to everyone in the future.

ATTENTION NBC:

you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. the reason itunes is the ONLY successful digital distribution channel is because it’s the nicest to it’s customers. we have allowances to do with what we want with our purchased content, it’s reasonably cheap (could be cheaper), and EASY TO USE.

and as far as distributing content internationally, get with it!

if what you say is true (that canada is a haven for piracy (bs, btw)) then make your stuff available. i for one have been WAITING to PAY YOU MONEY for ‘the office,’ ‘heroes,’ and ‘BSG.’ i don’t want to download it thru bittorrent, but you leave me no choice. i don’t want to pay $100 a month for cable because there is only shite 95% of the time. i’d gladly pay that money to a content provider, such as yourself, to watch only the shows i give a crap about.

I AM NOT ALONE HERE!

this row with apple is stupid. STUPID.

thanks to the writers strike, and possibly an actor’s strike afterwards, and now cutting off your biggest digital distributor’s channel, NBC will cease to be significant within a year.

i’m glad i’m not a stock holder.

I’ve yet to run the site on safari, but the player is just flash so it should work without a problem. If you have any problems just change the user agent to look like another browser and surf away.

Television networks have strong brands, and series are strongly associated with their network brand. It’s not hard to figure out where to go in order to get NBC programming online.

Finally, the power of iTunes is the tight integration with the iPod. But video on the iPod still sucks.