NBC Shows, Streamed Via Netflix
According to this press release, NBC and Netflix have arrived at a deal to stream key NBC show Heroes the day after the episode originally airs. Netflix users will be able to watch Heroes for free on their PCs. Netflix also struck a deal to stream old episodes of Friday Night Lights, 30 Rock and The Office.
Take THAT, iTunes!
November 30, 2007 in Geekdom, Television |
And once again you can watch it on your computer but not your iPod, Zune, or TV. (The exception is that TiVo has a deal with Amazon to stream their UnBox content - but I have a Dish, not a TiVo)
Also you’re SOL if you have a Mac. Netflix uses WMP 11 as I understand. Not only that but there have been big complaints from people even using Firefox. (Maybe this has changed)
Comment by Clark — November 30, 2007 @ 12:45 pm
BTW - the episodes are all already up at Netflix. It’s a free service if you are Netflix member. You just need to use IE for inexplicable lapses of programming. (i.e. the almost certain use of ActiveX)
Comment by Clark — November 30, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
Ugh. I just tried watching one. WAY bad quality. iTunes store video quality this is not.
Comment by Clark — November 30, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
Thankyou NBC for screwing us all!
Comment by a random John — November 30, 2007 @ 5:21 pm