Comments on: The Daily Show And The Colbert Report Hit iTunes

By: Simeon

Simeon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:48:37 +0000

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.

By: Hamish

Hamish — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:33:55 +0000

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.

By: Raffe

Raffe — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:34:50 +0000

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.

By: AdamHC

AdamHC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:22:20 +0000

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)

By: Stephen Ridgway

Stephen Ridgway — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:50:42 +0000

how many comedy news programs do these Americans think we need to have?

By: deck

deck — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:44:58 +0000

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

By: Scott Jackson

Scott Jackson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:18:55 +0000

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.