The Daily Show And The Colbert Report Hit iTunes
The two best news programs on television, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, have just landed in the Australian iTunes Store.
Each episode costs $2.99, which is, of course, a complete ripoff. However, iTunes is offering a $10 multipass, which gets you 16 episodes of the show – or four weeks worth of episodes. Considering that the Comedy Channel, as part of the My Escape package on Foxtel – which is the only way to get the shows on Australian TV – costs $16 a month, the iTunes offer isn’t too bad a deal, especially if you have an Apple TV. It’s even better when you consider that you can no longer stream full episodes from the Comedy Central website (if you’re outside the US), and when compared to local TV shows like The Chaser’s War on Everything, which costs $29 for a season pass.
This is the kind of pricing we’ve been waiting for when it comes to buying TV online. Hopefully it’s a huge success and more people start offering the same value, be it through iTunes or other VOD sites…
[The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (iTunes links)]
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This is a great step forward, but downloading this much video still takes a hefty chunk out of your monthly download limit.
If more ISPs did what iiNet did and paired with Apple to make iTunes Store downloads unmetered (though not Podcasts), TV online would actually be a practical possibility in Australia.
Unfortunately, you’ll never see Telstra do that – they’ve got their Bigpond Movies service and things like that, and they don’t want to see Apple take a slice of their profits.
ok, I understand why they blocked the streaming outside of US since one month.
Fortunately the limitation is easy to overcome :
just use firefox with the add-on “X-forwared for spoofer” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5948
and set an US ip like 216.240.136.189
enjoy
how many comedy news programs do these Americans think we need to have?
I’ve seen some stuff by Stephen Colbert and loved it. Great to see I can now download his episodes, I think I’ll go out and buy my first ever iTunes credit thing ($30 to be exact)
Or you could just watch the videos on the Daily Show website. You don’t get it as a full episode but you get the whole thing in individual segments. It’s cheaper than iTunes and totally legal.
Quite happy to pay that $9.99 for the 16 episodes and being on iiNet, the d/l doesn’t chew into my data! Good to see iTunes doing something like this.
Remember when you could watch them free?
And you didn’t need to pay or have foxtel?
And then remember how easy it is to get around their region detection… yeah.
Also it’s a joke to think anyone should pay $2.99 for what is essentially only 20 minutes of programming.