NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!) - Gizmodo Comments

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

alxx86 — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:15:23 EDT

quality is shit compared to the BBC Stream

alxx86

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

indemnitypop — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:28:21 EDT

let it load as I'm leaving work and watch it on the bus all the way home! No one ever calls me anyway.

indemnitypop

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

jesseg — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:00:11 EDT

it's not just for iphones/touches. it works fine on my motorola q9c.

jesseg

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

kbneon — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:14:00 EDT

@oopl: I came across nbc's mobile site last week. And was able to access the shows on my Nokia E61i over WIFI and not on EDGE. It was RA stream.

kbneon

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

justinpe — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:25:06 EDT

Quality is bad, but free is good. This is very confusing. Why would NBC turn their back to the iTunes model in favor of this?

justinpe

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

Y2KGTP — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:15:57 EDT

Works on my Touch...

Y2KGTP

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

bms — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:57:52 EDT

Hopefully this will be the start of more to come.

bms

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

TheDude06 — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:35:46 EDT

@EQC the iphone files are /unprotected/

TheDude06

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

postnocomments — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:03:02 EDT

It loaded immediately in my iPhone (with WiFi connection). Now, et tu NBC? Cries the Zune.

postnocomments

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

EQC — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:02:02 EDT

NBC Direct requires a walled-garden player install with loads of DRM

Well, that's exactly why I won't be using this service. I appreciate their effort...but that's just lame.

This isn't F***ing 1999. I don't need/want 125 different video players on my computer just because everybody wants to use their own DRM and do their own thing. I learned my lesson from Real Player.

I've got Windows Media Player, Quicktime, an FLV player, and VLC for when none of the previous players can figure it out. Each of those is pretty darned universal and between them I can play just about everything I want to play...why can't NBC play nice and work with a player that already exists and has other uses?

EQC

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

Tomahawk214 — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:46:24 EDT

I liked the SNL skit with Steve Jobs on that foward link.

"It holds 4 kabillion contacts.

Okay, how much battery life does it have?

20 minutes."

Tomahawk214

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

foureight84 — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:43:41 EDT

chuck is such a horrible show. i can't believe they didn't chancel chuck but chose to cancel journey man... wow seriously? and what is up with bionic woman? equally bad if not worse than chuck.

foureight84

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

phungy — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:43:32 EDT

I tried watching the office and saw a Corolla ad. There are ads! :(

phungy

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

tuckertuck — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:51:26 EDT

@J. Nadeau: Not for Canada, but CBC.ca, thecomedynetwork.ca, ctv.ca, tsn.ca, discoverychannel.ca, muchmusic.com, mtv.castream almost all their shows like Lost, South Park, Daily Show, Colbert Report, jPod, the Border, you can get Podcasts of the Hour ... They even have live feeds of HNIC, and the IIHF games... what more could you want?

not enough people in Canada realize that most channels have their shows online. If there was a Canadian version of Giz, they would report about it...

And CBC already tested the Bittorrent waters by releasing one of their specials a few months ago in easily digestible torrent form... I don't know if was successful or not.

tuckertuck

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

rich70734 — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:50:45 EDT

@GizMadone: That's better than what I get... I just get an "Error: Movie could not be played." Then Safari crashes.

rich70734

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

TheSonOfKrypton — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:37:12 EDT

@draiko: Yes, yes, I've played with a "Touch" at work.....Makes me truly appreciate the patience of you Windows Mobile people....So Draiko, you have fun with that HTC Touch of yours.....*Thumbs up* [/sarcasm]

TheSonOfKrypton

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

jovendelavega — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:03:40 EDT

yeah this is similar to something Modern Feed is doing. [Modernfeed.com]
I found it a few weeks ago and they have a lot of streaming content- i'd imagine they'll have this soon too.

jovendelavega

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

snakepliskin — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:54:40 EDT

Aww i was just about to send this in. The quality sucks though and it takes forever to load. Omg heres an idea for apple lets get flash support!

snakepliskin

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

GizMadone — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:45:09 EDT

All I get is a big Quicktime logo on a white screen. Wonderful.

GizMadone

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

draiko — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:39:21 EDT

I love having this feature on my Sprint Touch... except it's faster and available anywhere I go.

draiko

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

ned flanders — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:35:51 EDT

what's with the photoshopped photo?

ned flanders

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

J. Nadeau — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:27:40 EDT

And it does not work in Canada; surprise surprise!

J. Nadeau

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

Nuts — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:05:15 EDT

If ABC does this also, the iphone will really kick nuts!

Nuts

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

itchytooth — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:35:23 EDT

The quality seems kind of poor to me. And it stopped buffering and hung 12 seconds in.

itchytooth

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

oopl — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:31:49 EDT

Will be interesting to see if they open it up to other platforms/browsers.

oopl

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

itchytooth — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:30:14 EDT

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itchytooth

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

slip — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:09:05 EDT

If you game the Nokia N800/N810 Mozilla-based MicroB browser to emulate the user-agent of the iPhone/iPod Touch Safari browser, you can get these videos to work too. Take a little while to buffer, but then the quality is actually quite watchable on the N800.
Now I'm waiting for them to add CHUCK to the roster.

slip

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

t3mur — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:06:19 EDT

trying it now.... finally have use for this phone

t3mur

NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!)

peteH — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:57:04 EDT

That will make my gym trips INFINITELY more bearable.

peteH