NBC Shows on iPhone and Touch

Chris

on May 9, 2008 8:57 PM | Permalink

If you are always watching a top hit show or two on NBC, you will take this as good news. What if I told you they are free? If you own an iPhone or an iPod Touch that is. If you bought any Zune lately you will have access to any of those shows in exchange for some of your dollars. How cool is that? Shouldn't all users, whether Apple's or Microsoft's get the same treatment? How come what others have to pay for is free to the others?

But wait, who said those free episodes' quality is watch worthy? You have to go to NBC.com from your http://www.mobilewhack.com/gold-iphone-black-night-edition/ or iPod browser and you will be offered the option of watching those episodes you wanted. Only this won't be quite that easy. It has already been reported that video quality is quite sloppy.

Some of you may already know about the rivalry between NBC and Apple's iTunes which seems not to extend to iPhone. Or in fact it does and they are going for iPhone's reputation. Is NBC trying to convince people it's iPhone's fault for not delivering crystal clear video? I am an Apple fan so I could be biased when asking that question but I think it isn't. NBC uses 3gp codecs for these free episodes and those codecs don't exactly merge that smoothly with Apple's OS...

Any Zune owner here? I'd like to know how NBC's videos run on your Zune thingy.

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