Incompetents R Us - iTunes

[wraithfodder]

In the latest screwup with Stargate Atlantis (the first being 'screener copies' of "Adrift" and "Lifeline" getting leaked out), now iTunes (aieee!) released "Doppelganger" instead of "Adrift." While a number of fans got their hands on it, the vast majority can't see it (iTunes apparently yanked it after probably informed by MGM - I'd love to have heard that phone conversation, or email (all in caps, I'm sure). I can sure see why NBC doesn't want anything to with iTunes as heck, they'd probably release HEROES out of order! ;) NBC was sooo right to sever ties with iTunes as this could conceivably harm SGA ratings for this episode. I mean, why watch it if you've got it on download? Sigh.

So, now must avoid certain forumsthreads until October 19th as some folk give away too much even in what they consider to be 'vague' comments. Sigh.

Comments

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, trying to find an 'independent' DVR burner is a LOT harder than it was last year, and the guy at the store said "Tivo" was cornering the market.

I'm not that much into news on music downloads, but one guy at work gripes constantly about iPods due to their flaws - I have to find out which he buys and NOT buy it as he's had nothing but problems with in. Me, I'm still stuck in the buy music on CD era. Heck, I still have vinyl records. ;)

I do remember some big bruhaha over music CDs or something that downloaded software or anti-piracy stuff, a couple years back.

[tipper-green.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess I'm on the other side. I love my iPod, and would be lost without it. And if it has flaws, I have yet to find out what they are in the almost two years since I've had mine. Most everyone I know is the same. I think the only person I know who has ever had a problem, had it with the Shuffle. Apparently, those little things seize up.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

And when it seizes up, you... hit it with the defibrillator! ;)

[tipper-green.livejournal.com]

Going into v-fib! Quick! Get me some IV fluids! Wide open! And some Epinephrine! STAT!

I love that I never have any idea what all that means, but I put it into fics anyway! ROFL!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I used to watch EMERGENCY! (old NBC paramedic series) so got pretty good at the lingo ;)

[tipper-green.livejournal.com]

Aww! Me too! I've VHS tapes filled with them! God, I was so in love with Johnny Gage. I think I even wrote a Mary Sue about it when I was 12 or so. Sigh. Good times...long time ago...

I need to find those tapes.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I dread to think if they remade that show now. Oh wait, they sort of have with ER. Paramedics punching people. Aieee! I got all three seasons of Emergency on DVD. Must rewatch 'em all.

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

I think the reason TiVo is cornering the DVR market at the big box stores is that a very large % of people who use a DVR use a non-Tivo box that's supplied by their cable or satellite company for a negligible fee. The current generation of cable company boxes seem to have all the features an average user would need. The people who don't take the boxes offered by their provider are therefore mostly the people who are specifically looking for a Tivo.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Most likely.