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CBS, NBC to Offer TV Shows for 99 Cents
According to an AP report. "CBS and NBC have announced deals to offer replays of prime-time programs for 99 cents per episode, shifting television toward a sales model that gained popularity with downloaded music." But the shows will only be available over Comcast on Demand, not for download.
But if you miss the show, the tivo is pointless.
The Daily Show/Colbert Report is the big stumbling block for me.
*dramatically shakes fist* Damn you Jon Stewart!
If you have a working MythTV box, couldn't you just record the episode when it airs instead of paying $1 the next day to rent it? Then you can strip out the program to get to the commercials you want to see.
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"For the cost of fifty shows you can just get a Tivo."
Yeah, we don't need no steenking choices around here.
"Derp de derp."
That's assuming that you knew it was coming up and scheduled a recording in advance.
If only there were some kind of "guide" to give people advanced notice of upcoming TV episodes...
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Again, why do you need to save a show and watch it 100 times over? That sounds more like a mental issue than a practical one.
Didn't watch this week's Family Guy, did you?
I keep a small notebook next to me during the rare times when I watch live televisual programming. When I see a commercial advertisement, I open the notebook and remark on whether I thought the advertisement was of substantial quality. If it contributed positively to my televisual experience, I note the company's name and the qualities which I liked about the advertisement. If it detracted from my experience, I note the objectionable qualities instead.
Afterwards, I place my findings in an OpenOffice.org document on my Debian GNU/Linux-based Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" AMD Athlon computer workstation. I then utilize a StarBasic macro to dynamically transpose the content into an XHTML document whose DOM I manipulate with CSS and JavaScript using advanced AJAX techniques I learned; this document is then propagated through the blogosphere so that it attains sufficient impact and increases the televisual capacity of my fellow netizens.
But that's just me.
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