TV.com

BrokenDesign

Shared on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 18:26

Just downloaded the free TV.com app for my iPhone to check out. Not a huge fan of CBS (really, TV in general), so I wasn't massively thrilled about that, but I figured I'd see what it was all about. There's other stations as a part of it, like Showtime, CW, CNET, etc, so there's certainly more content than I initially thought there would be, however so far I'm not finding any full shows that I'm interested in. Californication is in there, but I really wasn't surprised to see it's only excerpts from episodes and interviews and they're all censored, so that's a drag too. Mostly this gets me thinking (as well as the YouTube app, of course) that a Hulu app is quite possible and really needs to hit the iPhone. It would be majorly awesome. What's Hulu waiting for, I wonder…? Considering who it's owned by, my guess is money.

From searching through the app, I'm seeing that most things are excerpts and not a whole lot of full episodes, most of which are CBS shows. At least now I get to watch MacGyver  wherever I am, FINALLY.

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VenomRudman's picture
Submitted by VenomRudman on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 20:52
Wtf wants to watch a TV show on a freakin' Iphone? Yet another solution in search of an answer.
Ethical_Sin's picture
Submitted by Ethical_Sin on Sat, 02/28/2009 - 01:17
I'm actually thinking of getting an iPhone this upcoming week. It's not so much that I have the particular need or desire to watch TV on a phone... or do any of the other random shit an iPhone will do. It's just one more gadget I can toy with while bored away from home. GPS is cool too. I dunno, possibly regret buying it down the line, but I'll probably do it anyhow.
BrokenDesign's picture
Submitted by BrokenDesign on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 21:15
I don't think that TV on iPhone is a solution in search of an answer, it's just something to do. I have no intention of watching the newest episode of Burn Notice on my phone the minute it's available, but if I'm in a waiting room somewhere and need to kill some time, sure, I'll bust it out and start to watch a rerun of the A-Team or whatever. Would I have paid for an app to watch TV? Not at all, I don't care that much. But, it's free, it'll get some mileage here and there, so why not? It's no more or less credible a thing to do than play games on an iPhone or a BlackBerry or a cheapy Nokia, for that matter. I think the problem here is that people see that and they think so-and-so is going to sell their TV, ditch their cable or satellite service and just watch on their phone. Not at all, that's not what anyone would use it for and that's not what it's intended to do.

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