Comments on: NBC Dumps iTunes (for now)

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:33:05 +0000

Dave,

Yeah, seems high to me too. The 27% of MCE machines are used in the living room number can from a 2004 Microsoft number when the number of MCE machines was MUCH lower. Its possible that the explosion of MCE machines has resulted in a lot of them not even being hooked up, or in dropping this number quite a lot. Don’t know. Couldn’t find anything more current.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:34:59 +0000

Pol Pot Pie, Great question. Maybe this dictionary entry will answer it:

Main Entry: spite
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, short for despite
1 : petty ill will or hatred with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart
2 : to treat maliciously ( as by shaming or thwarting )

source: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=spite

By: Pol Pot Pie

Pol Pot Pie — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:12:21 +0000

So NBC is going to have it’s shows on Amazon’s UnBox.

wait for it�

for $1.99. That’ll show Apple.

Umm, UnBox is fine for downloading movies to my TiVo, but why would I pay for a show when I can, well, just TiVo it.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:25:46 +0000

I’m content waiting until January 1 to see if the contract gets renegotiated and extended. Though I’m interested to see what happens this fall – you’re right and some of the newer wording does indicate NBC won’t be participating. Though NBC may not do anything until Hulu is ready for launch. We shall see!

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:14:16 +0000

OK – I don’t have iTunes, so I will take your word for it. You win the bet.

I would like to go “double or nothing” that as soon as the first new episode of The Office airs later this month, THEN you will find all NBC properties vanish from iTunes.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:44:18 +0000

Glenn, Can that stat be right?! 5% is LARGE.

Todd, I just checked iTunes and NBC content is still there. However, I’ll only hold you to my original bet that NBC content will be there as of Jan 1.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:23:20 +0000

Actually, I just trolled around and it looks like Microsoft has sold some 20 million MCE machines, and some 27% of those are hooked up in living rooms, so this is nearly 5% of the 111 million US households, making lots of assumptions. Not a huge number, but not bad really. Tivo only has 3 million current customers. Of course comparing them assumes all of these machine are still running and still in use for watching video on TVs. And that those 2004 stats hold up now that MCE has exploded in popularity…

By: leah

leah — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:13:39 +0000

I agree, funny image for the article. And here’s a funny comic about Apple and NBC’s split:
http://www.itgumbo.com/mumbogumbo/2007/08/apple_takes_ball_goes_home.php