Dear CBS.com
I’ve been traveling for the past several weeks and have absolutely loved the ability to watch Big Brother 8 episodes (it’s my favorite show) for free on your website. It’s been better than purchasing the shows on iTunes (which is what I did last year).
Unfortunately, I missed last night’s episode and there appears to be some error on the page where I should be able to watch it. I also tried the other pop-up Inner-tube player that is available elsewhere on your site. I have watched a commercial for Gerber baby foods about 30 times, hoping vainly that one of the times it would magically work. Please fix this today, so I can watch the show tonight.
And CBS, if you don’t get it fixed in time… and since I’ve already watched the Gerber commercial 30 times, would you mind horribly if I bittorrented the video? I mean, I’d buy it legally on iTunes, but that alternative no longer exists. You might want to reconsider the decision to not offer the show on iTunes. More markets is more profitable these days, and means that customers like myself are not left hanging.
Cheers,
C.K. Sample III
UPDATE: Thanks for fixing it!
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Oh but the cost! First the house eleves have to prepare the bits, then an army of owls must deliver the bits to Apple, and THEN full wizards and witches, yet an even larger army than the owls, must gingerly feed those to your iTunes account… you think CBS is made of gold or something? what do they look like, Gringott’s?
Not offering your content on as many different, legal, revenue-generating platforms as possible? L.A.M.E.