I was checking my email today and I get my weekly email from NBC. I’m probably stuck getting emails from NBC in the first place because my wife used my email address voting for “Deal or No Deal” last year sometime. Usually just throw the email away without reading it, but the title was “The A-Team is back on NBC.com”. I mis-read that and thought they were “back on NBC” which kind of freaked me out. The first words out of my mouth were “Who’s playing Mr. T? It can’t be….like…Mr. T?” Right there – they got me! They sucked me in, I just had to know. I viewed the email and saw this:
Turns out the are putting old episodes of shows from 25 odd years ago on the NBC.com web site. They must have been targeting people from my demographic this week, because I grew up with most of those shows, like the A-Team, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Miami Vice, and Emergency! They sucked me in even further, I click to see just how good the quality was on these – because let’s face it, who could resist watching an episode of the A-team online?
I was really surprised, when I clicked a got a web page, chose the “A-Team” and when the interface came up I chose an episode and was watching within seconds. I had the ability to choose from any season, any episode. The quality was good the movie was clear, and right away a commercial came up. I thought then that maybe I would be bombarded with commercials the entire time but the message said “very rew interruptions due to Sponsorshp from sprint…”. In fact, in the timeline under the movie I noticed that the “notches” in the line represented when the commercials played. You can’t forward past them, but they are only 30 seconds.
The flash interface that plays the movies works well, and there are “large” and “full screen” options to watch all the TV shows. The full screen option was a little lesser quality, but still completely watchable. Thank you NBC for doing something right. I only wish that the movie studios and record labels would wise up and do the same.
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