NBC and Apple Kiss and Make Up
NBC released an announcement indicating their problems with Apple and iTunes are over. Beginning immediately, their top 10 programs will be available for download and season passes can be purchased for most of their series. This applies not only to the Peacock network but its USA Network, SCI FI Channel, Bravo, Sleuth and NBC News channels as well. Oxygen, Telemundo, Mun2 and NBC Sports will be added later.
With the debut yesterday of iTunes 8, the shows will be available in standard ($1.99) or HD ($2.99) formats. Older series can be seen for $.99 each while some can be had for free. Among these shows will be The A-Team, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Miami Vice, Kojak, and the original Battlestar Galactica.
NBC Universal is offering one free episode from each of their top series, available in either SD or HD, on the iTunes Store for the next two weeks. The premiere episodes of upcoming series, such as Knight Rider, My Own Worst Enemy and Kath & Kim will be available on iTunes a week before their broadcast premieres later in September and October, with subsequent episodes available the day after broadcast.
Speaking of iTunes – anyone using iTunes on a Windows Vista system should check out this post about iTunes 8 causing Blue Screen of Death crashes on Vista.
iTunes store is currently undergoing some issues, says it is unavailable for Apps, although you can still see things. Either the Genius is going crazy or the HD downloads are hammering the servers. Someone downloaded BSG and it grabs both the SD and HD version (even that is rumored to not be full HD) — the episode was a whopping 1.3 GB! Hopefully you're not using Comcast (caps bandwidth) + ordering a lot of shows.
Until they change their mind or have another falling out. In which case your subscriptions and/or downloads are moot. Business model fail.