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Apple Adds New TV Shows To iTunes
Phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Apple has added eleven new and classic television shows from NBC, the Sci-Fi network, and USA. The new shows include Alfred Hitchcock, Battlestar Galactica, Monk, Surface, Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, Dragnet, Law & Order, The Office and most importantly: Knight Rider!" From the article: "Steve Jobs took the opportunity to toot Apple's horn, stating that since the inception of video downloads on the iTMS, they'd sold nearly three million individual items. In addition to the sales figures, the PR from Apple stated that their current offering of video stands at approximately 300 episodes. All in all this looks like a slam dunk for Apple as they're rounding up their distribution deals and diversifying their suppliers. If the rumored deals with FOX and CBS are true then Apple will have a dominating lead in this market, much like their current domination in the digital music distribution arena."
International Superstar David Hasselhof.
And while youre at it, I want new episodes.
Wow, the entire first season of Adam-12! I've been waiting for this.
I can't believe it. I mean, I like Knight Rider as much as the next guy, but if I had to pick one David Hasselhoff series it would be Baywatch. Call me crazy.
In the future, there will only be one 'channel': Apple.
Thats until the batteries run dead.
Just when you thought you'd never be able to get live action David Hasselhoff on your iPod video
s/thought/hoped
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
I think there is a more logical and much more interesting product apple could make - an Apple TV
...called the iCandy
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In case you haven't noticed, the cost of videos from iTMS is £1.89 - almost twice the price of the American equivalent, for a more limited selection of content. This works out at just under 67 episodes for the cost of the license - and episodes recorded from the TV have no DRM.
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And you even forgot the most important reason - David Hasselhoff!
That is all.
Why not offer some episodes for free as an incentive to download the others?
Because if I'm Steve Jobs, slashdot is the first site I click each day for marketing advice.
I can't wait until Apple Computer starts selling downloads of the Beatles movies, and Apple Lawyer Records sues them again.
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make install -not war
I'm impressed, how'd they get video on that older model ipod?
-- it's ridiculous how many people misspell ridiculous... (damn, damn, damn...)
Apple was about to open the TV shows download service in France but backed out at the last minute after a market analysis showed that nobody would care unless Apple offers all seasons of MacGyver in HD.
My great-great grandfather wrote in his diary how long it took to download Kinetoscope episodes on his steam-powered Babbage Analytic Engine using the latest version of BitCanal. The old episodes of Baywatch were simply scandalous for thier time...The lifeguards swimsuits barely covered their knees!!!
Let's get out my handy-dandy little red pen here.
Sure, let's. I'll get out my bright green pen and join you.
h.264 format? I guess that's okay.
Oh, you're too kind.
'FairPlay' DRM? Not good. I can't play it outside iTunes.
Well, actually, you can play it in QuickTime. A much better video player.
Open and accessible store? Nope. You need iTunes which is only available for Macintosh and Windows.
And...Apple should cater to the 1% of computer users who run only Linux with this why, exactly?
Compatibility with many devices? Nope. Only one: the iPod 5G.
Um, actually, it's compatible with those 99% of computers running Windows and Mac OS X.
Well at least I can create a DVD, like iTunes lets me burn a CD with my purchased songs, right? Nope. No burning. Only playback.
I'll admit that this is kind of annoying, but I have little doubt that it will change, given time. Don't forget, this is still a very new service.
Well at least the new episodes of Law & Order, which are filmed in HDTV, will be shown in brilliant 1280x720 resolution, right? Nope. 320x240.
Ah...well, you may have a nice fat OC3 to download shows on, but many (if not most) of us are still stuck on nominally 784kbps pipes, that actually turn out to be more like 80kbps most of the time if we're lucky. Oh, and most of us don't have HDTVs to watch them on, either.
Good for you, Apple. Welcome to the 19th century. I'll be over here with my trusty BitTorrent client.
And I'll be here with my copy of iTunes, watchin' the next Law & Order legally in what I, and many, many others consider to be a perfectly acceptable resolution and format, on my laptop, or maybe plug my TV into it and watch it there (it'll probably be higher quality than what comes over the cable anyway).
I think your real problem is that you are both rich and extremely myopic. You seem to think that Apple's (essentially) brand-new service should provide the absolute top-of-the-line product to be worth purchasing at all, when in reality, most people either couldn't use that product ('cause it would take them 3 days to download the file) or it wouldn't be any different, for them, than what they're getting ('cause they don't have a 60" 1080p HDTV with 9.2 ultra-surround--they have a 28" analog TV with ordinary stereo speakers).
So take a peek outside your soundproof, well-upholstered, $30,000 technological paradise and glance at the real world once in a while, and you'll see why Apple is doing this. Then stop being such a whiner.
Dan Aris
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Free, legal music for iTunes users.
The deep-down URLs in apple.com usually mention webobjects, so that's a safe bet, but nobody sane would actually run a farm of business-critical servers based on BSD. Get real. </snark>
hell I have at least 5 people at work desperately trying to find a used archos gmini 400
You had me right up until you blew your cover, Archos fanboy, and now you've lost me. Face it: your kind have even less credibility than all of the most raving Apple fanbois, BSD nerds, GNU hippies, Steve Ballmers, and Linux posers in the world--COMBINED. If Archos was as cool as you guys think it is, it would cause deadly explosive hemorrhaging of the pleasure centers of the brain--but it is not, and it does not. It would also be available in a store near you, which is is not, or on ebay, which you claim it is not (go figure).