2. aklemmer took the words right out of my mouth. Offering TV on demand to DVR owners only is like offering cooking lessons to Emeril! With DirecTivo in my household the only reason I'd be interested is if I experienced an outage while a show was running. To me, this plan is just more proof that 'content providers' have cranial/anal displacement issues.
Posted at 3:09PM on Nov 8th 2005 by David
3. Yes, please, please help a boy understand why this is at all anything but an episode of Desperate Networks.
When I first heard this, I figured maybe this is a play for customers who don't have DVRs (like my mom, who might more easily understand paying a buck to watch a show anytime she wants than recording it and watching it later), but it ties in to a DVR service? And you'd pay them a buck to watch a show you could have recorded? Nonsense.
Again, if you had no DVR and wanted to watch the show on your own time, without commercials, then maybe it's worth a buck. But this makes absolutely no sense. The only thing that makes less sense are the newspeople saying this is some kind of threat to / response to iPod with Video and ABC.
4. I think you guys are wrong. . .
I see this being a huge revenue stream for the networks, and they should act more aggresivley. Except I personally would film a "directors cut edition" aka Sex and the city. . .Film an adult one (cursing, nudity, etc) then show on tv the edited version. Guess what you can get the uncut directors edition for only 2.00 an episode!
Thats just one potential? What about you come home an dnothing on your pvr. For 2.00 you can watch that Lost show you never recorded but always heard about. . .why not?
I think there is a lot of potential here to give new and exciting service to consumers, and on their terms!
Posted at 3:48PM on Nov 8th 2005 by chris
5. While I don't understand someone with a DVR buying these shows, I do see where the networks might be going with this. If they start blocking the ability to fast forward through commercials, then I could see buying these shows without the commercials. Sort of an "ad supported" version for free vs. an "ad free" version for a price.
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1. They might be beating iTunes/ABC by a buck, but it's still $.99 too much. It's not an apples to apples comparison (forgive the pun). If you have a PVR in the first place, there's no need to pay for on demand content unless, of course you missed a show b/c of the lack of dual-tuner (get a move on, Tivo!) and a show conflict. iTunes TV is all about portable content and static content for those without a PVR.
Posted at 1:08PM on Nov 8th 2005 by aklemmer