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Tentative Review of Hulu

October 30, 2007 – 7:33 am

NBC broke away from iTunes to offer its shows through Amazon (which only works on a Windows PC— no iPods etc) and through their new venture Hulu. It is a flash based video offering meant to compete with YouTube (event though YouTube was never meant to compete with NBC). The folks at MacRumors offered [...]

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iPod Touch, Ten Million Apple Geeks Collectively Groan

September 5, 2007 – 4:06 pm

After years of a rumored touchscreen iPod Apple finally unveiled the iPod Touch. Trouble is $400 dollars only gets you a tiny 16gb hard drive. Pay $300 and you’ll get a microscopic 8gb hard drive. The nerds are not happy.
The macrumors forums say it all
only 8gb and 16gb??? come on. I need more [...]

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NBC Wants People to Stop Buying TV Shows

August 31, 2007 – 10:23 am

On the heels of iTunes getting rid of DRM in music NBC says they want more. NBC would also like to re-negotiate pricing and bundle shows. So far NBC has declined to renew its contract with Apple.
First issue: pricing. The pricing is fine. No one else really thinks it is too much or too little. [...]

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