Posted in: News, Deals, Funding & Acquisitions, Broadband Video Companies, Video Distribution and Apple by Chris Tew on September 1, 2007

6 People Are Speaking Their Mind


  1. […] I can’t really blame people for wanting to stick the finger to the greedy content owners like NBC by uploading a TV Show onto YouTube. After all buying TV Shows online is full of DRM and is often overpriced. […]

  2. […] This decision has not surprised Industry Pundits as NBC and Apple had been embroiled in a very public stand-off over the past couple of days. […]

  3. […] Encouraging media giants to sell video online is enough of a problem for digital download leader iTunes, never mind for the smaller players. Instant Media did manage to strike a deal with Twentieth Century Fox, but these content deals were rare. […]

  4. […] That is definitely a different direction in pricing than NBC wanted to go! […]

  5. This is rather lame. The attraction of iTunes material is that you can use it on your computer, and don’t have to wait around for it to download more than once. The DRM is loose enough that you usually don’t run into problems, and the prices are about as fair as anywhere else on the net. The cost of episodes is actually a little on the high side, so I don’t see why NBC would try to increase the price even more so. Even if the increase had gone through, sales would have dropped enough to have lowered their profit significantly. Its frustrating when networks screw people out of what they want for their own gain.

    I guess I can still just watch it on Tv, but the convenience is definitely removed. They’re probably just trying to undermine apple’s business model because its working and they’re jealous/angry or something.

  6. […] Last September saw Apple and NBC acrimoniously split over their joint deal to distribute NBC programmes through iTunes. […]

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