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NBC Wants You to be a Criminal

January 19, 2009 – 9:16 pm

In addition to full episodes of their TV Shows, NBC’s website has lots of web only content. All of that content is blocked from outside the US. To me this sends one message unmistakable message. Look elsewhere. Of course the other popular service, Hulu, is blocked as well. That means if I want to see [...]

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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. Apple offered NBC a revenue stream, free promotion, free bandwidth and an attractive and simple delivery package— it is hard to see how spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try and feebly push customers back into an old business model will work out well.

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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. Apple has announced that they will not carry NBC shows because NBC wanted each episode to sell for $4.99 which is more than double what they cost now.

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Andy Barker P.I.

March 10, 2007 – 11:21 pm

They’re putting a new mid-season replacement show out onto the interweb before airing even one episode on TV. I can only assume it is a move to make sure the show has a chance to be seen considering this is a time when no one really expects to see new shows.

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