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Yahoo streams CBS sitcoms
updated 11:40 am EST, Tue December 27, 2005
Yahoo streams CBS sitcoms
Yahoo today announced that it is to offer its content via iTunes after rival network ABC made several hit shows available through the online store.
Yahoo is offering the commercial-free episodes of "Two and a half men" entitled "We called it Mr. Pinky" and "Madame and her special friend" as well as "How I met your mother" episodes dubbed "The pineapple incident" and "The sweet taste of liberty" until Monday, January 2nd, according to the Associated Press.
Yeah!
12/27, 12:44pm reply
Just what we need, the ability to see shows we could watch if, say, we just turned on the TV....
How about something that's not available anywhere else. Where's Supertrain?????
testudo
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Joined: Aug 2001
US only...
12/27, 01:08pm reply
Tryin' to watch the episode I got a dissapointing 'not correct region'-type of warning. So for us Europeans it's a no-show
Double_UK
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re: us only
12/27, 01:33pm reply
Doesn't work for Canada either. I can't say I'm surprised though.
t6hawk
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Joined: Jan 2001
Does it work for Macs?
12/27, 01:38pm reply
Well, does it?
Eriamjh
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Joined: Oct 2001
Apple's only Competition
12/27, 02:08pm reply
Apple's only competition seems to be when people give stuff away for free. And even then it usually doesn't fly.
If I have my choice, I'd rather buy a program for $2 and watch it on my iPod wherever I want to.
Try watching a streamed program on an airplane :)
Deal
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Joined: Apr 2001
Not Compatible with Macs
12/27, 02:15pm reply
Haven't exhausted all options, but can't get it to play in Safari. Part of Yahoo's embarrasing yet notoriously poor Mac support. They want to play with the big boys when it comes to delivering content, but they are still living in the 20th century when it comes to supporting other platforms.
howdesign
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Please note:
12/27, 02:34pm reply
From Yahoo's Help pages-
Please Note: Yahoo! Video is currently not compatible with Macintosh, Linux, or Unix systems.
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Personally, I don't see 2 temporary episodes, available only by net sustained stream over a protocol that is slower and not as clean as Quicktime presenting a great amount of competition to the infrastructure that iTunes has built.
lordandrei
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hardee har-har
12/27, 02:54pm reply
Quote: "Doesn't work for Canada either. I can't say I'm surprised though. "
Well first you'll need electricity, then a computer...this isn't yahoo's fault.
Jonathan-Tanya
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Looks like USA only
12/27, 08:58pm reply
Well, we air at least two and a half man here in Istanbul. Not a big loss :)
Thing is, they rushed it too bad it seems. Normally it should be "Not Available in Your Region" in plain HTML. That is the tradition.
Also they use either Macromedia Flash or Wmedia format for streaming, nowhere near Quicktime or Realvideo 10 quality.
I would be surprised if they have fullscreen option available.
Ilgaz
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Joined: Nov 2004
You know why not?
12/27, 09:03pm reply
Yahoo got sort of an exclusive agreement with Microsoft and they do dirty tricks whatever your platform is, to show windows media.
If you have a Windows based PC out there, launch IE without signing in to Yahoo, having everything (QT, Real, Macromedia Flash) installed. Click a video story.
If it is Yahoo content, it will do "cool tricks" detecting your media player etc. After that, if you are lucky, you will have "settings" with windows media PRE SELECTED or, wmedia will start playing right away.
I am not anti MS or something but Wmedia... The format is awful, a joke if dropped to 100k levels. Servers are such a joke that BBC like monsters can't dare to try them even. Of course, one of reasons servers are a joke is: Unlike Real or Quicktime, you can't run Unix (OS X, Solaris, Linux) based monsters to serve streaming.
Ilgaz
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