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$2 each for Zune TV show downloads

p2pnet news | TV:- Would you be dumb enough to fork out around $2 for individual episodes of the likes of The Office, South Park or Battlestar Galactica so you could watch them on your Zune, assuming you had one?

But wait!

No worries. It’s only Microsoft money - 160 BillPennies.

But wait!

It is real money, or the equivalent thereof!

“Among the company’s partners for the new service is NBC Universal, which had a highly publicized falling out with Microsoft rival Apple last year,” says the Mercury News, adding the downloads are part of a larger Zune “update,” following which, “customers of the Zune subscription service will be able to download songs from their friends’ music playlists to their Zune devices,” it says adding:

“The device will also create automatic updated playlists.”

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BillPennies - Microsoft’s Zune scam,  November 13, 2006
Mercury News - Microsoft to offer TV shows May 6, 2008


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5 Responses to “$2 each for Zune TV show downloads”

  1. Reader's Write Says:

    $2 is not that bad for a tv episode.
    the price should be based off of length though.
    I think $0.50 for every 30 minutes would be very fair.

  2. Reader's Write Says:

    $2 is not that bad for a tv episode.

    u must be joking

  3. Stray Mongrel Says:

    $2 isn’t that bad, but can I port it over to my laptop, and watch it while I fly to NY?, or burn it to a CD and archive it to watch in another year when I feel like seeing it again?

    Do I get Dolby 5.1 sound, and crystal clear picture quality on a high resolution LCD?

    I’d pay $2 for a 45 min commercial free show, under these circumstances, and if the show is, by my personal opinion, exceptional.

  4. Rekrul Says:

    “$2 is not that bad for a tv episode.”

    “$2 isn’t that bad, but can I port it over to my laptop, and watch it while I fly to NY?, or burn it to a CD and archive it to watch in another year when I feel like seeing it again?”

    Read the following story and then tell me why you would ever trust buying DRM crippled crap from Microshaft (or anyone for that matter);

    http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15722

  5. Bill Bates Says:

    I’d have NOTHING to do with DRM even if “free”. Why give more money to MS anyway when they are free to air and electronic copies cost nothing to produce? $2 sounds cheap but say a show runs to 140 episodes? It adds up. This is all EXTRA on top of all other associated costs, including ISP account, electricity, storage costs, plus the time and effort needed in downloading.

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