Comments on: Dear NBC

By: Brent S

Brent S — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:50:54 +0000

Crap…commented on the wrong post. Sorry.

By: Brent S

Brent S — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:49:59 +0000

Just watched last night’s episode and I’ve gotta say it was compelling. Finally I think the arc is taking shape. So is Adam really centuries old?

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:44:04 +0000

I do wonder what it was that I said that warranted deletion. Maybe they didn’t like my suggestion that if they wished to make more money off of iTunes the solution that makes me most sense is to sell episodes for less, not more. Or maybe they didn’t like it when I said that what they’re up to is another example of corporate stupidity and a lack of understanding of the market. I stand by what I said, however… and firmly do believe that many people who use bittorrent to get NBC shows would happily switch to a legal option if it were more reasonably priced (I certainly would, at any rate — though given I live in Canada there is no “legal” option anyway). Given their refusal to do so, they’re just encouraging more people to go the illegal route and helping to make sure that those who do torrent NBC shows won’t feel any pang of guilt over it.

By: Ged

Ged — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:32:20 +0000

Surprisingly my comment is still listed there. I wonder how long that will last. It angers me that they would delete your comment Christopher, but it also isn’t surprising. Such is the behavior of many large corporate entities now-a-days. Disappointing.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:10:03 +0000

I was just over at the Hulu blog, and noticed with amusement that my comment, as well as many (if not almost all) of the negative comments that people had left about the Hulu service have been deleted. Pity — that means they’re probably just dismissing them all out of hand. And here I was actually naive enough to think that there was the possibility they might realize that perhaps, just perhaps, they weren’t going about the digital video thing the right way. Oh, well. If a huge corporation doesn’t want my money then there’s little I care to do about it.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:55:23 +0000

I am totally with you on NBC/U’s greed and stupidity, but I think Galactica’s delay has much more to do with the impending writers’ strike than with Hulu.

To me, that’s the biggest hypocrisy of all. Zucker and company get up there on their high horse and tell us how unfair it is that Apple won’t give them a cut of their iPod sales because iPods are sold “on the backs” of NBC/U content. Then, they turn around and tell the writers that they can take a long walk off a short pier when the writers *dare* to ask them for exactly the same thing — residuals from online ventures and other money-making schemes that the studios couldn’t pull off without *their* hard work.

By: macfixer

macfixer — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:05:54 +0000

Let me get this straight: they leave a proven successful arrangement for their own hare-brained scheme? Greedy mutha-huffers…

//k