Comments on: CBS Launches TV.com iPhone App

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:14:55 +0000

Once again … not available in Canada!

By: dburr

dburr — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:36:17 +0000

Some of them look like they are Youtube apps, but the are not. but Mobile brings up a good point – I was talking to someone yesterday, wondering when the Hulu app is coming??

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:43:48 +0000

I’m not seeing YouTube clips. Perhaps your experience has to do with incorrect geocoding? By the way, are you related to Poster? You seem to originate from a similar location…

By: Mobile Man

Mobile Man — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:53:34 +0000

CBS has unfortunately set itself up for defeat against Hulu with this app. I agree with @Poster. These YouTube clips all over the place is completely annoying. CBS has such a great number of its own programming. No idea why it has to rely on YouTube for clips. May be their technology partner that you mention has imposed YouTube search on CBS just because they have it. I am sure Hulu will come out with a pure play TV show iPhone app and blow this half-hearted attempt out of water. Many clips showed multiple hour run times and often the app will say I am not in the USA. I just checked if I had been beamed out of the US with StarTrek and all – but no, I am still here in the good old US of A.

By: Poster

Poster — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:26:55 +0000

When I search for something, all I find are YouTube clips. Is there any need for one more outlet of YouTube clips on the iPhone? Would be much better if results are restricted to CBS videos. Or, is TV.com trying to get back NBC and Fox clips via pirated clips on YouTube? Overall quality of the app was quite pathetic. When you type something in the search bar, the app starts to do something and blanks out the screen which is quite annoying.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:44:45 +0000

I forgot to mention to check out the reported duration of CNET video clips… several hours per video seems a bit extreme. (Far left pic in the gallery.)