Downloading Season 1 From my Friend Steve

tba

I don't have a television.

I want to watch this show, but you can supposedly get Season 1 off iTunes and want to check if anybody has already done so

Is this true?
What price is it? (You need iTunes to find out and it sucks).
Do I need a ghey ass iPod to look at them?

yours etc...

Vokes

If its on iTunes, you may need to be residing in the States to d/l it, like with BSG.

monkeyfudge

You need a US credit card in order to get them.

It's $1.99 an episode or $42.99 for a season pass.

tba

Some enterprising american soul on ebay should offer their US card privilages to euopean viewers and demonstrate the ability for the net to work around such silly restrictions.

I mean the last time I checked I live in the EU, don't we have some type of anti monopoly laws that should work against SCI-FI and sky etc..?

monkeyfudge

But offering the shows for download as they are shown in the US would undermine their sales negotiations with the likes of BBC and RTÉ.

Cabaal

monkeyfudge wrote:

But offering the shows for download as they are shown in the US would undermine their sales negotiations with the likes of BBC and RTÉ.

While this is true, unfortunately the likes of RTE, BBC etc are really bad at showing decent sci-fi shows that air in the states....

RTE gets a big mention for this as they never manage to show any decent Sci-Fi shows and they don't come up with any of their own like the BBC do

tba, if you do manage to download them you don't need a iPod you just need a Mac or PC running latest iTunes/Quicktime and you'll be sorted.....iTunes isn't that bad

Thorbar

RTE not doing sci-fi is a good thing imho. They manage to mangle portraying a doctor's clinic in dublin can you imagine the ****e they'd come up with if they attempted to do something not based in this world/timeframe.

Goodshape

Thorbar wrote:

something not based in this world/timeframe.

You mean like Fair City?

Sci-Fi comedy can usually be done on the cheap.

Cabaal

Goodshape wrote:

You mean like Fair City?

Sci-Fi comedy can usually be done on the cheap.

Red Dwarf imho, wasn't crazy expensive and has made the BBC alot of money....

Cabaal

I've come up with a plan to buy Heroes from iTunes, I normally buy the vouchers for myself on iTunes rather then making numerous 1e buys I buy a 10e voucher and use that.

Anyway I noticed when I generated the code it says its for the Irish store only, and this got me thinking....if a US iTunes cusatomer made a voucher would it be a USA voucher only and if so could it be redeemed by a Irish customer and used in the US store?

Have a friend of mine in the states, might see if he'll be nice enough to buy me a 5e voucher to test with..

I'll keep you posted

Cabaal

Right, I can be given the voucher but when I login it says Irish store so there goes that plan, its a shame that people in Europe still can't download such shows legally.

There's a market for this stuff!

Overheal

I discussed this with my brother (who lives stateside)

Hes on iTunes like an addict so I considered this:

-The files are encoded, and will only work on an authorised PC (max 5 at a time)
-Get your friend to purchase them and transmit them to you (via instant message link or gmail .zip)
-He changes his actual password to his account for a brief to let you activate/authorise your PC via an iTunes client.
-He changes back to his original pass. Your PC is authorised and can view the saved vids, but you can no longer access his a/c (this requires a fair amount of TRUST!)

Or, you can watch them on <snip> or something simpler

Overheal

FYI: iTunes will make them available to Irish IPs when the show airs

monkeyfudge

No links to episodes please... be it P2P or http or otherwise.

Thanks.

Cabaal

Overheal wrote:

FYI: iTunes will make them available to Irish IPs when the show airs

hasn't happened yet so doubt its going to happen anytime soon

Overheal

Has anyone done this properly yet?

I don't see how it can be done: the IP checks that iTunes must use simply wouldn't allow for it, would they? The same way you can't watch the BSG webseries over here...

Cabaal

It won't work, I tried it and it failed, such a shame

Ste.phen

Overheal wrote:

Has anyone done this properly yet?

I don't see how it can be done: the IP checks that iTunes must use simply wouldn't allow for it, would they? The same way you can't watch the BSG webseries over here...

You need a US iTunes account with a US billing address and a US source of funds.

There is no IP check. *touch wood*

JohnK

Could try getting a US mailbox (or family/friends house) and adding that as an authorised address for you credit card. Some US shops will accept that as the credit card authorising company will then accept the US address.

Dave

Would using a proxy work, when itunes checks your ip?

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is season 1 for sale?, i looked on ebay and can't see it?

tba

Season 1 is not finished just yet

monkeyfudge

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is season 1 for sale?, i looked on ebay and can't see it?

On DVD? It will probably be released about 2 or 3 months after the season finishes.

I'm hoping for a blu-ray or HD-DVD release.

Vokes

Probably a Season 1.0 costing a gazillion quid no doubt, and then shortly followed by a Season 1.5 set.

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tba wrote:

Season 1 is not finished just yet

ahh,

Mossy Monk

monkeyfudge wrote:

I'm hoping for a blu-ray or HD-DVD release.

Absolutely. All the CSI's in HD would be great too as it happens.