Posts Tagged with ‘nbc-direct’

NBC has now officially launched the download service for its television programming, known as NBC Direct, although initial plans had called for an October launch. Now, at no cost, anyone can download full episodes of a wide variety of NBC programs including Heroes, The Office, Bionic Woman, and Las Vegas among others.
The service is available as a public beta and requires Windows Media Player as well as Internet Explorer in order to watch videos in the service's custom player.
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It was announced yesterday that Podaddies, a San Francisco-based video advertising start-up, had recently inked a deal with Apple to develop advertising compatibility for Quicktime and iTunes. No money has been exchanged in the deal, but does this mean that future iTunes videos for download could have embedded advertisements?
Currently, Apple does not provide any ad-supported content, but I wouldn't put it past them given the revenue potential that the advertising industry now has.
The main concern that I had with ads [...]

Apparently, NBC Universal cannot wait for the launch of Hulu (its joint venture with News Corp.) to offer its full episodes online to viewers.
Via a press release, NBC has announced that it will be offering its top television shows for users to download up to a week after broadcast. The videos will be ad-supported, which will allow NBC to provide the shows for free. Confirmed shows for the launch include Heroes, The Office, Life, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, Friday Night [...]