UPDATED: Dr. Horrible Plans US-Only World Domination

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UPDATED: Dr. Horrible Plans US-Only World Domination

Posted by Nick Broughall at 4:49 PM on July 15, 2008

UPDATE: It's now viewable in Australia, and it's great, if a little weird. What did you guys think?

The Good news: The first act of Joss Whedon's new internet-only show Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has gone live.

The Bad news: For some god unknown reason, the site decided to use Hulu as their online video service of choice, which is not available to view outside of the United States.

So, all that amazing internet hype and the freedom the networks that comes with releasing a show online has been rendered completely useless, as fans in Australia and around the world instead have to enjoy a floating black box which tells them, point blank, that they need to be in the US to view the show.

Apparently they're working on a fix, but considering the whole program is only available to watch for five days (before it makes its way to iTunes and DVD - although whether that will include iTunes Stores outside the US remains unclear) this is a major setback.

It seems like this is something that should have been thought of in the planning meetings.

[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]

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Comments

Liyster

Posted July 15, 2008 6:44 PM

The simple answer: Hotspot Shield

Vit Peyr

Posted July 15, 2008 6:58 PM

Disappointed. I was really looking forward to watching this.

McBanjo

Posted July 15, 2008 7:37 PM

Just watch it through a free internet VPN connection.

Ref

Posted July 15, 2008 9:22 PM

This is just typical. We miss out on so much online because of living in Australia.
And while Im having a bit of a winge, another thing that annoys me is when I sign up for something online and they put USA at the top of the page rather than in the "U" section.
Sometimes the miss Australia all the time!

Nat

Posted July 15, 2008 10:14 PM

Seems to be working for me now, and I'm located in australia.

Nozlaf

Posted July 16, 2008 3:28 AM

Hmm disappointing that the site is offline

more disappointing that it seems that it is avaliable for purchase from the US iTunes store but not on the AU iTunes store

hopefully the official site will come back to life because we all know that the reasonable $3.99 that the US iTunes store is charging will change into $15AUD when it comes to the aus iTunes Store,

strange how there is a huge amount of cost converting Audio & Video for the Australian iTunes store because the price sure is not driven by the exchange rate.

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