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#1 2005-12-06 2:59 am
NEW tv networks on iTunes!
just noticed tonight. iTunes has three new tv networks: NBC, SciFi, and USA.
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#2 2005-12-06 5:51 am
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#3 2005-12-06 8:20 am
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Nice! They have NightRider? I guess maybe they'll have a lot of other classic shows. I know there are a lot of Cheers and Cosby and Seinfeld shows that I might buy, and a lot of SNL skits I'd like to have.
Also, they have Conan! The boy band skit was one of my all-time favorites - downloading it as I type.
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#4 2005-12-06 8:30 am
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#5 2005-12-06 8:40 am
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Triumph goes to the Star Wars premier - 
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#6 2005-12-06 11:25 am
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Everytime I try to preview a video, iTunes crashes 
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#7 2005-12-06 1:53 pm
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I demand Subtitle (or closed caption) :'(
I send feedback to Apple twice. Hope they listen.
P.S. I am hearing impaired, don't forget! There are 26 millions hearing loss in North America.
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#8 2005-12-06 2:08 pm
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iloveillustrator wrote:
I demand Subtitle (or closed caption) :'(
I send feedback to Apple twice. Hope they listen.
P.S. I am hearing impaired, don't forget! There are 26 millions hearing loss in North America.
Count me in as one of them, and I'd like to be able to enjoy the shows they offer now. So glad to see that this is taking off though! Good for Apple, and I hope they continue to improve on it.
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#9 2005-12-06 2:43 pm
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Battlestar Galactica +
Non-widescreen ----
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#10 2005-12-06 2:48 pm
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#11 2005-12-06 2:49 pm
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mo' ron wrote:
Battlestar Galactica +
Non-widescreen ----
last time I checked an Ipod didnt have a 16:9 screen
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#12 2005-12-06 2:59 pm
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I hope they're working on getting FOX on board, that'd be awesome...
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#13 2005-12-06 3:20 pm
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Marc wrote:
mo' ron wrote:
Battlestar Galactica +
Non-widescreen ----last time I checked an Ipod didnt have a 16:9 screen
You're going to watch a three hour mini series or hour long TV shows on a 2inch screen?
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#14 2005-12-06 3:28 pm
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mr. penguin wrote:
on vidipod you can chose widescreen or full
Those videos have already been cropped for fullscreen. That data is permanently gone. Playing them at a widescreen aspect ratio would only make them look worse. They'd be squished.
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And on a side note. Apple's horrible compression is enough to keep me from downloading BSG on iTunes. Those episodes are all blurry, bleh.
Quite honestly, Apple's "large" movie trailers look 10 times better then the content they sell on iTunes.
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#15 2005-12-06 3:31 pm
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Maybe they look better because they aren't compressed as much? 
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#16 2005-12-06 3:33 pm
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Marc wrote:
mo' ron wrote:
Battlestar Galactica +
Non-widescreen ----last time I checked an Ipod didnt have a 16:9 screen
Yeah, but i'd rather not miss half the show, esp. if i am paying for it.
Plus, i'm more likely to watch this on my 21" monitor or my Powerbook (where I normally watch it, after I download it with bittorrent), so the tiny, non-widescreen screen doesn't matter to me.
Even if I had an iPod video, I would probably not watch more than music videos on it (which I won't pay to download, considering they're free elsewhere).
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#17 2005-12-06 3:37 pm
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Maybe they look better because they aren't compressed as much?
Well, obviously 
I wish Apple would simply offer 2 quality settings. Perhaps a crappy fuzzy fullscreen, and a less compressed widescreen.
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#18 2005-12-06 4:04 pm
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iloveillustrator wrote:
I demand Subtitle (or closed caption) :'(
I send feedback to Apple twice. Hope they listen.
P.S. I am hearing impaired, don't forget! There are 26 millions hearing loss in North America.
TV on iTunes is to sell Video iPods (like iTMS is used to sell iPods)... how many deaf/hard of hearing people own iPods?
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#19 2005-12-06 4:04 pm
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AAPL Shareholder wrote:
NAG wrote:
Maybe they look better because they aren't compressed as much?
Well, obviously
I wish Apple would simply offer 2 quality settings. Perhaps a crappy fuzzy fullscreen, and a less compressed widescreen.
You'd probably pay two to three times as much for it then…
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#20 2005-12-06 5:47 pm
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ConnertheCat wrote:
iloveillustrator wrote:
I demand Subtitle (or closed caption) :'(
I send feedback to Apple twice. Hope they listen.
P.S. I am hearing impaired, don't forget! There are 26 millions hearing loss in North America.TV on iTunes is to sell Video iPods (like iTMS is used to sell iPods)... how many deaf/hard of hearing people own iPods?
I hardly think that's the point. If they are providing content that is available to be watched (which is captioned on television) then it would be nice to have the captioning capability with these downloads as well. Perhaps this doesn't affect you, but it does affect many people. I do not have any hearing impairments, but I do watch most of my television programs with the captioning turned on - I just like it that way...and I wouldn't mind videos on iTMS having captioning as well.
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#21 2005-12-06 6:42 pm
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ConnertheCat wrote:
iloveillustrator wrote:
I demand Subtitle (or closed caption) :'(
I send feedback to Apple twice. Hope they listen.
P.S. I am hearing impaired, don't forget! There are 26 millions hearing loss in North America.TV on iTunes is to sell Video iPods (like iTMS is used to sell iPods)... how many deaf/hard of hearing people own iPods?
I'm one of them. While my hearing loss is significant, I can hear enough to enjoy music and enjoy it on the iPod still. There may be more than you think.
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#22 2005-12-06 6:46 pm
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misskim wrote:
ConnertheCat wrote:
iloveillustrator wrote:
I demand Subtitle (or closed caption) :'(
I send feedback to Apple twice. Hope they listen.
P.S. I am hearing impaired, don't forget! There are 26 millions hearing loss in North America.TV on iTunes is to sell Video iPods (like iTMS is used to sell iPods)... how many deaf/hard of hearing people own iPods?
I'm one of them. While my hearing loss is significant, I can hear enough to enjoy music and enjoy it on the iPod still. There may be more than you think.
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#23 2005-12-06 6:55 pm
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What, no Cops?
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#25 2005-12-06 8:37 pm
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nerdbunnie wrote:
ConnertheCat wrote:
iloveillustrator wrote:
I demand Subtitle (or closed caption) :'(
I send feedback to Apple twice. Hope they listen.
P.S. I am hearing impaired, don't forget! There are 26 millions hearing loss in North America.TV on iTunes is to sell Video iPods (like iTMS is used to sell iPods)... how many deaf/hard of hearing people own iPods?
I hardly think that's the point. If they are providing content that is available to be watched (which is captioned on television) then it would be nice to have the captioning capability with these downloads as well. Perhaps this doesn't affect you, but it does affect many people. I do not have any hearing impairments, but I do watch most of my television programs with the captioning turned on - I just like it that way...and I wouldn't mind videos on iTMS having captioning as well.
I'm well aware of the whole deaf bit - I go to school with a ton of hearing impaired students. But seriously, I doubt one of the target demographics for the iTunes Music Store are deaf people.
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