NBC today announced that it will begin offering ad-supported streams of all its new fall shows. That means that starting soon you’ll be able to stream episodes of several different “Law & Order” amalgamations, “The Office,” “Studio 60 On Sunset Strip” (which is excellent by the way) and a bunch of others. The network will also launch on October 1 a new version of the NBC Universal player that features enhanced-resolution, large-format video.
This is really big news. NBC has some high profile shows this season and the fact they’ll be immediately available for free streaming is a huge play in their favor. I believe this plan will help the network to drastically cut down on the losses it receives from people downloading ripped episodes of its shows. Its nice to see one of the Big Three embracing this technology as it will surely motivate the other networks to do the same. Thoughts?
I dont understand why NBC is doing this they do have some shows on the itunes music store.
I agree with the above poster. However, I think it’s great, these show’s are not for download only streaming if I’m correct. In the music store, the shows are add free, and are able to watch on your ipod.
Free is better than nothing regardless of whether download them or not but then again I’m an avid bit torrent user so this doesn’t affect me. It’s just another way for them to make more money from the ads.
Right i agree with that myself.
I believe Fox also announed that they would be offering streaming versions of their shows this season as well. So NBC may have made this decision based on competitive forces in the marketplace.
I know for a fact that ABC Family allows you to stream shows a week after their initial broadcast. Its only a matter of time before this becomes another standardized feature for the networks.