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Network TV Downloadable Via iTunes
IconBasedIdea writes "Dallas Mavericks owner
and opinionated media entrepreneur Mark
Cuban blogs
about Walt Disney cheese Robert
Iger, and his recent deal with iTunes to allow TV episodes to become available for purchase and download. Granted, it was only a matter of
time, but someone had to go first, and it is apparently ABC. Could this help
niche shows stay alive longer? Will it kill traditional TV ads, long
on the downswing of effectiveness? Will we end up eventually paying
(or stealing) all of our future programming?"
You will get the straight network feed recorded with network commercials and blank spaces for local commercials to be filled in. Or, all "network commercials" and no blank spaces. But the shows will still be cut and have the same running time - 30 or 60 minutes.
This will in the end just force advertisers to be more watchful and probably restrict their TV ad buying. This will mean less shows get made.
Alternatively, if you want to watch a remix/parody of current shows with a voice-over by some teenager who thinks his smutty remarks are the height of comedy, you will have lots and lots of that stuff to choose from. And some of it might even seem "professionally done".
And, of course, thanks to the pirates, it will all be free. You could pay, if you feel guilty, but why? Nobody else is.
Jobs partnered with Disney in order to get some other things developed and Disney jammed their bullshit ABC televsion lineup down his throat in the bargain.
A very rich tool mind you, but a tool nonetheless.
No, you need to think, your examples are not at all related to what I'm saying.
And if you think they are related, then you are an idiot.
And furthermore, they are obligated to give ME any service i want.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Last i heard, the cable companies must also pay for the 'right' to broadcast.
Guess where part f that money comes from? Why, gee, its my cable bill.
Agreed, a large part of my bill goes to the transmission hardware/support, but not all. Some goes to actually pay for content.
Commercials are ADDITIONAL payment.
Or were you not around when cable was commercial free and was the major selling point? Until they got people on board of course, then out came the commercials for even more revenue.
Ether way, i paid for the content, they should not be sticking it to me twice like this. And 'bandwidth cost' isnt an answer to that. They already have the bandwidth, which is f-ing paid for already ( by me ).
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Come on, be serious. a DVD is not the same as a download.
I paid for the content, which is *already* digital. I already paid for bandwidth to get it to me. They already store it digitally, on hardware my bill/commercial watching paid for.
I did not pay for the shiny disk or pretty packaging. Nor am i asking for something so ludicrous as 'a free DVD'. Get real, and think out side your little pathetic box before you speak.
Just as a side note, besides that rational reason above, *i* have a right to do what ever the hell i want. Just so happens that in this case others should the right too. Because its 'right', and being screwed twice for the *same thing* is wrong.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
That you are a f-ing useless blob of human debris.
Whoops, ill be modded down for telling the truth..
---- Booth was a patriot ----