NBC Direct Launches With Free Downloads

thefickler writes "It's here, and it's no joke. NBC has launched NBC Direct where most shows can be watched online and some shows are available for full episode downloads. This comes after NBC decided to pull out of iTunes." For now it's Windows only, XP or Vista, IE 6 or 7.

Comments

NBC DO NOT offer FREE downloads

[JackMeyhoff]

they still restrict to regions so you have to proxy to get access to them and they do not seem to offer the FIRST episode or pilots. Its not FREE to all.

Re:Not worth reporting.

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

And I bet closer to 95% of computer users who use Windows don't give a fuck about this news.

Just because everyone on the earth doesn't care about it, doesn't mean it's not news. It's not like everyone on Earth was terribly interested in the 9/11 disaster, but no-one would dispute that it was news at the time. In fact, much of the stuff on Slashdot, 90% or more of people wouldn't be interested in. That doesn't stop it from being news either. Just because the Original Poster and the Grand Parent (me) are fucking idiots, doesn't give you an excuse to be a fucking idiot as well. In fact, your reasoning, and the reasoning that I can only assume the Original Poster used are remarkably similar.

No thanks.

[themusicteacher]

If they'd give the writers a cut of the profit they were making on those ads, I might consider sitting through them. But they claim they aren't making any money! Riiight.

Re:Streaming vs. Downloads... at the cost of DRM

[dascritch]

Sorry, but here, in France, i read "MUST RESIDE WITHIN THE U.S." on the NBC.com page.
I don't want to use Microsoft Windows, I don't want to use MSIE, I don't want to use Windows Media Player, I don't want to live in a country that have secretive prisons with no applicable rules because of a president who used the same trick than Cole in season one finale.

So I must pay for viewing Heroes S02 (with 24 hours late but subtitles in French and no ads at all, ok, that worth it for my poor English skills...).

Re:Not worth reporting.

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

You just tried to compare 9/11 to NBC launching a free T.V. download service online.

Yeah. Sure I did.

You might get modded +5 intellegent here

Yeah. Sure I do. (My recent post was about the 5th out of almost 1500, and about 2nd or 3rd that hasn't been modded back to score:3, or score:2)

Slashdot has an agenda which is obviously clear to anyone who doesn't wear an eye patch complain about DRM, obsessed with MS failure articles, whining about U.S. turning into police state and exaggerating claims of Linux adoption(Year of the Linux?)

Yeah. Sure that has anything to do with my post.

I would also say that the reason majority of the people are not interested in 90% because only a fool with a blind eye and with an open source agenda would swallow that information as facts.

Yeah. Sure I don't know that. Sure I'm not the one telling others this at their every infraction. Sure my karma hasn't be slow to accumulate because of anything like that.

Anyway, you're a troll, you're completely offtopic, you're hopelessly wrong, and you're a hypocrite, since you've done nothing but tout your own agenda, one that I happen to share in spades to boot.