NBC Streams Full Episodes to iPhone and iPod Touch

Friday May 9, 2008 9:13 am PDT by Arnold Kim

Silicon Alley Insider first reported that NBC has developed an iPhone-specific version of their website that will stream Quicktime versions of some of their television shows.

iPhone and iPod Touch owners need only to point their mobile browser to NBC.com and they will automatically be redirected an optimized version of their site that offers video clips and full episodes.

The quality of the video clips are a bit low, but over the site appears very well designed. It also appears to be accessible to international users.

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DotComCTO

Posted: 53 months ago

...and from the looks of the commentary on the Silicon Alley website, no one is appreciating the video quality (3gp instead of specifically coded for the iPhone).

It's a start...

:cool:

--DotComCTO

(Ooh! ... first! :p)

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appleguru1

Posted: 53 months ago

Looks like its only the office and 30 rock atm, but the site does look reasonably well done...

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EvanLugh

Posted: 53 months ago

It's good my only issue is having to keep clicking/pressing every 10 minutes to go on to the next part.

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yellow

Posted: 53 months ago

Didn't NBC just pull all it's shows from iTunes?
Guess they still know where their market is. :)

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forafireescape

Posted: 53 months ago

Funny from the company that disagrees with Apple's policies :)

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razorianfly

Posted: 53 months ago

I'm sorry but I don't believe this is a well designed site. Where is the web interface that looks like iPhone? - buttons overlapping titles of programming (eh?) - using tables to set-out a site like this only makes it looks shabby ...

or maybe it's just me :), as stated above though, it's a start ..

Didn't NBC just pull all it's shows from iTunes?
Guess they still know where their market is. :)

I'd agree only that Heroes is actually still available on the iTunes Music Store UK, spotted it a couple of days ago.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?id=264406664&s=143444

R-Fly

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montypython

Posted: 53 months ago

Works on PC running safari by changing the identity of your browser in the dev menu.

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EvanLugh

Posted: 53 months ago

I'm sorry but I don't believe this is a well designed site. Where is the web interface that looks like iPhone? - buttons overlapping titles of programming - using tables to set-out a site like this only makes it looks shabby ...

or maybe it's just me, as stated though, it's a start ..

I'd agree only that Heroes is actually still available on the iTunes Music Store UK, spotted it a couple of days ago.

R-Fly

That's because Universal programs are on the UK Store. :rolleyes:

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BufferOverflow

Posted: 53 months ago

You don't even need to change your user agent. You can view the video straight away clicky

Looks like a step in the right direction! The video quality is awful though; even on an iPhone screen. Nice that international users can access without proxies (let's see how long that lasts...)

Finally splitting the episodes just mkaes them a pain to watch - still a long way to go until it's up to BBC iPlayer standards.

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gstylez

Posted: 53 months ago

Just checked it out and it's pretty good. Can't wait for more shows or other networks to get in on this.

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