The public bickering serves no purpose except to prolong bad feelings. Sure NBC is just trying to save face. So let them. There's no reason to rub it in.
but just for kicks (you know, one more rub), too bad NBC missed the opportunity to sell lots and lots and lots of clips of the Beijing Olympics highlights through iTunes. i think there would be plenty of iTunes customers who would've enjoyed downloading them to watch.
in all fairness, lets get over it. NBC mucked up, and it's fair that it's trying to save face. [snickering].
See if anyone at NBC got fired, when their content was with itune it was doing well. Then someone at NBC decide to pull the plugs for obvious reason which was they thought the could make more money elsewhere. So why come back if they were doing so well somewhere else. My guess they saw a lose in revenue and that person who blew the deal with NBC is probably no longer in that role.
Even if Apple made some sort of change or caved we will never know for sure since Apple has been tweaking itunes and offering different prices for different things and they will continue to do that as market dynamics change. This is the reason they have not added subscriptions yet since they keep gaining market share if they stop gaining or loose to a subscription based service they will offer it too.
Huh? What? You think transferring files over a 1.5 or 3MB/s DSL or 16Mb/s cable line won't hog the network but moving files within a 100Mb/s or 802.11g/n or 1Gb/s home network will?
Frankly, 99% of what's on TV these days is s**t. What little I do watch is PBS, History, or Discovery. Anything else and I can find old stuff I like on iTMS. And I won't be buying anything that comes from NBC, new or old.
While your point could probably have been more eloquantly put, I have to agree. In fact, I seriously wish they had History, Discovery, and Ntl Geographic content (more than the pittence of shows they currently offer), and available in HD. I'd likely dump cable completely...
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The public bickering serves no purpose except to prolong bad feelings. Sure NBC is just trying to save face. So let them. There's no reason to rub it in.
but just for kicks (you know, one more rub), too bad NBC missed the opportunity to sell lots and lots and lots of clips of the Beijing Olympics highlights through iTunes. i think there would be plenty of iTunes customers who would've enjoyed downloading them to watch.
in all fairness, lets get over it. NBC mucked up, and it's fair that it's trying to save face. [snickering].
Even if Apple made some sort of change or caved we will never know for sure since Apple has been tweaking itunes and offering different prices for different things and they will continue to do that as market dynamics change. This is the reason they have not added subscriptions yet since they keep gaining market share if they stop gaining or loose to a subscription based service they will offer it too.
...at over 1.4GB for a full-length show, transferring from a computer to an Apple TV will both take a long time and monopolize the local network.
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Huh? What? You think transferring files over a 1.5 or 3MB/s DSL or 16Mb/s cable line won't hog the network but moving files within a 100Mb/s or 802.11g/n or 1Gb/s home network will?
Frankly, 99% of what's on TV these days is s**t. What little I do watch is PBS, History, or Discovery. Anything else and I can find old stuff I like on iTMS. And I won't be buying anything that comes from NBC, new or old.
While your point could probably have been more eloquantly put, I have to agree. In fact, I seriously wish they had History, Discovery, and Ntl Geographic content (more than the pittence of shows they currently offer), and available in HD. I'd likely dump cable completely...