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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Hey NBC (and Universal.) I’d like to thank you for saving me about $40 in a Season Pass ticket from iTunes and for giving me a higher quality version of your very entertaining show. Man, the details are so much better than what I was getting from iTunes that I can’t wait ’til I start downloading The Office, too!
Now since I’m on a Mac and your true intentions was not about the viewer (as you tried to tell the world), I had to go elsewhere besides Amazon.com or Hulu to get my season premiere of Hereos. Elsewhere meant going to this fine site and using Miro for the download. Miro nicely displays not just the most recent episode, but all of them including entire seasons! Now granted, you have to wait for all the seeders to get busy, but once that happens, it’s only a few hours and I have my free episode of Hereos…in 720p HD! How nice is that?!
Now, would I have done all this if NBC was still on iTunes? No. ‘But what about the HD?’ you ask. Well, while the high def is nice, iTunes is still faster and more convenient. I also do want to pay for my videos; however, if the provider that once gave me a paying way to do so and then takes that option away, what’s a hooked fan to do? You gave me no choice, NBC!
I’m sure we’re going to be seeing a spike in torrent traffic and a massive drop in NBC’s bottom line for downloads after this is all done. It’ll be fun to watch NBC come back to Apple like a dog with its tail between the legs. Man, is Steve Jobs going to have a fun day at work when that happens.
Okay, I have to get back to this free show on my Mac. L8.
September 26th, 2007 at 17:23
i’m sure your only the tip of the iceburg.
Down here in NZ i don’t know anyone who watches these shows on TV. Pirated versions of the show had done the rounds weeks, sometimes months earlier.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:56
I watched the season finale, and the audio was horrible. It was full of distortion, and the compression artifacts made the experience less than desirable. It was nice, however, to catchup on an episode I had missed. I can’t believe what I was seeing and hearing could be considered HD.