Comments on: Nine’s $1.95 down-loans

By: Flashman

Flashman — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:59:21 +0000

Oh dearie me – “Australian first”, they’re claiming? Well, it may be the first time that an Australian TV show has been offered as a paid rental DRM’ed download for PCs only. But if you’re going to give credit for the first Australian TV download, you’d be on much firmer ground giving the title to SBS’s podcast of Speaking in Tongues, which began in November 2005. And was free. And was in multi-platform MPEG4 format. And which you could keep and watch for as long as you wanted.

No biggie. Just giving credit where it’s due. (As it so happens, I pretty much carried that project, so it irks me to see Nine pretending it didn’t happen.)

By: Nintedofan

Nintedofan — Thu, 25 May 2006 23:39:38 +0000

Why the hell would you watch a video file in flash that you have a license to for 5 days? Who are 9 kidding? I sure as hell am not gonna buy something for 5 days… >_> Just Get the box set, sure, 50 bucks, but you can watch it as many times as ya like…

Or, use a VCR… >_>

By: Jordn

Jordn — Fri, 19 May 2006 15:39:52 +0000

It’s quite pointless, although the show seems pretty popular. I’d pay for ABC shows if they expanded VOD (maybe iVods or VODcasting ) – The Chaser, for instance. But not this.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 19 May 2006 14:23:26 +0000

Thats ridiculous, you pay your money and only have five days to watch, really and truely they should be allowd to do what they want.

By: Dynamo_ace

Dynamo_ace — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:51:25 +0000

From the idea they have in mind it is absud!

No wonder your Channel 9 and 7 is like our ITV!

However, the BBC is appartently doing a similar thing soon.

By: Andy OZ

Andy OZ — Thu, 18 May 2006 11:44:16 +0000

Why would anyone want to download a tv show made by NINE?

And that goes double for SEVEN?

They should invest their money in making some good shows first.