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NBC, Apple announced iTunes TV show deal
Playlist ^ | 12/06/2005 | Peter Cohen

Posted on 12/06/2005 8:07:30 AM PST by Panerai

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To: Panerai
More proof that there is always money to be made foisting crap onto trend-slave morons.
41 posted on 12/06/2005 6:12:20 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: SamAdams76

So this video is what resolution if you watch it on your desktop? 320x240?


42 posted on 12/06/2005 6:14:37 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Bush2000; antiRepublicrat; Action-America; August West; eno_; Glenn; gmill; BigFinn; backslacker; ..
Apple inks Video iPod deal with NBC PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.


43 posted on 12/06/2005 8:29:25 PM PST by Swordmaker (Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
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To: Hank Rearden
More proof that there is always money to be made foisting crap onto trend-slave morons.

Looks like your racket may be winding down, Hank.

It's been a couple of hours, and no one has taken the bait.

44 posted on 12/06/2005 9:25:00 PM PST by papertyger
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To: TommyDale
"Is that why viewer ratings are in the toilet?"

Of course, ratings are completely meaningless as to a show's quality. Case in point: American Idol. This also applies to movies. Case in point: Down Periscope.
45 posted on 12/06/2005 9:38:19 PM PST by Terpfen (Libby should hire Phoenix Wright.)
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To: Aquinasfan
Let's not kid ourselves. This is Apple's entry into the porn industry. Look for iPorn at a junior high near you.

and Guttenberg contributed to mass production of steamy, sexually explicit novels.

46 posted on 12/06/2005 10:53:20 PM PST by zarf (The BCS sucks.)
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and Guttenberg contributed to mass production of steamy, sexually explicit novels.

Think more along the lines of Al Gore's pornography superhighway.

The iPorn makes it impossible for parents to monitor their childrens' video viewing habits, which is why I would never buy one for my kids. Now kids will be able to get their drugs and their porn at school. One stop shopping.

47 posted on 12/07/2005 4:34:48 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Terpfen

I guess I just don't get it. I guess I seem to have better things to do than walk around watching old reruns on a tiny little screen. Music is one thing, being distracted by a very small picture is quite another. If I want to watch something, give me the comfort of a room, a soft couch and my 61 inch surround sound TV.


48 posted on 12/07/2005 5:50:34 AM PST by TommyDale
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Do you really think there is porn hiding around every corner, ready to leap out and mug your kids? Yes, it is now a big industry, and that's depressing. Yes, when you look at popular culture, there are more pornish and low-class elements in it (especially rap / hip-hop).

But I know the folks over at Apple, ones working in the iTunes Music Store in particular, and I don't know an Al Goldstien, Larry Flynt, or even Hugh Hefner type among them. There was a portable-video company - Archos, I think - that used porn star in their ads. That was sleazy. But Apple isn't Archos.

And with the iPod (as well as other players) you have a central point of where it gets filled up - the iTunes and iPhoto folders on the kid's computer. If you keep tabs on that - and you can even do that unobtrusively over the network - you'll know just what i son the iPod.

49 posted on 12/07/2005 6:36:47 AM PST by Yossarian (The media is now simply running a 24/7 soap opera with Dubya cast as the arch villain.)
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To: TommyDale
I guess I just don't get it. I guess I seem to have better things to do than walk around watching old reruns on a tiny little screen.

It's not about "walking around." People riding on a bus or subway to a destination want something to do. For people that have already bought into the iPod, video is a natural progression. It's right there on iTunes, so why not?
50 posted on 12/07/2005 9:02:12 AM PST by Terpfen (Libby should hire Phoenix Wright.)
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To: montag813

Apples Share, Go for Google, If I knew I Google stocks would have quadruple right now, I would have bought half a million dollars worth and be a millionaire by now. And bought 10,000 ipods to resell for 4 million. LOL and the cycle continues.


51 posted on 12/08/2005 7:57:23 PM PST by Petey139
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